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“Free, free Palestine.” Then: “Death, death to the IDF.” Many chanted that.

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And, later on, “Israel are war criminals,” from a group that waves around the Hezbollah flag onstage.

Those things didn’t happen in Iran, by the way. They happened at what is probably the biggest music festival in the world, Glastonbury.

There was lots of hatred directed at Israel at Glastonbury in the U.K. over the weekend. The Libertines, Amyl and the Sniffers and plenty of others angrily denounced Israel, colonialism, and so on. It made things uncomfortable for many of the 200,000-odd people at the annual five-day music festival. But it arguably didn’t break any criminal laws.

However, the waving of the Hezbollah flag — allegedly by a member of the Irish rap trio Kneecap — has previously resulted in him being charged with a terror offence. And the “death, death to the........

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