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System Update with Glenn Greenwald

UK Criminally Investigates Band for 'Death to the IDF' Chant; Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' Pentagon Budget Boom

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

A rap duo is under investigation in the UK for chanting "Death to the IDF" at a concert. Glenn Greenwald breaks down the revealing reactions to the chant and the free speech implications. Plus: Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' is a gift to the defense industry, but will it help everyday Americans? 

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0:00.0

Good evening. It's Monday, June 30th.

0:18.6

Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

0:28.0

Tonight, there is a major intense controversy in the West involving Israel and Gaza, finally.

0:34.3

But the controversy is not about the Israeli bombing of a Gaza and coffee shop on

0:39.2

the beach on Sunday, nor is it about its droning of various people walking once they get flour

0:44.6

back home, nor is it about its ongoing massacre of people seeking aid and food in Gaza, as well as

0:50.5

people living in the West Bank. No, what has terrified, enraged, and frightened Western leaders

0:55.4

and Western journalists of all stripe

0:57.7

is that a punk and rap band

0:59.7

named Bob Villan appeared at a music festival

1:02.7

in England over the weekend

1:04.5

and chanted, quote, death, death to the IDF.

1:08.4

Now, it goes out saying that

1:09.5

if they had simply chanted death to the Russian army in Ukraine

1:12.6

or called for more Israeli killings of Iranian scientists like people love so much, or if they had

1:18.5

just celebrated exploding pagers from Israel that maimed thousands of people in Lebanon,

1:23.5

including children, nobody would have noticed and nobody would have minded at all. But because the chant was directed at the Israeli military, which happens to be engaged in multiple

1:32.1

wars, the indignation from Western media in political circles has been vociferous shrill and

1:37.2

endless, not just manifesting an unhinged rhetoric, but also a criminal investigation by the UK

1:43.5

police into this band, and the immediate revocation by the UK police into this band and the immediate

1:46.8

revocation by the U.S. State Department of the visas already issued to this band on one other

1:51.3

kneecap, preventing them from their scheduled tour in the U.S. Well, look at this reaction

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