I really like Bob Dylan’s music and he even sang a few Irish Independence songs that were great, so I thought for the longest time that politically Bob Dylan was a pacifist-leaning Lefty. Lefty in the sense that he wrote Maggie’s Farm, some anti-war songs and stuff like that. But this song is HORRID. Bob Dylan sings about how Israel is lied about and outnumbered and trapped, how they can’t even defend themselves without everyone criticizing them. In case anyone thinks “well that was long ago, people can change”, Bob Dylan did shows in Israel in 2011 after being asked by Palestinian groups and sympathetic groups around the world to boycott them. This song The Neighborhood Bully was released like a year after they invaded Lebanon, murdering thousands. He made some good music, but Fuck Bob Dylan.
I had a suspicion that Dylan was a Zionist when I realized his song With God On Our Side was clearly trying to sow doubts in the American cultural psyche that their Christian God justified their warlike ways.
While I am no theist, and I agree with Dylan that no religious faith makes any war just, it seemed strange that he seemed to also be simultaneously trying to act as though God does not justify such things when it’s clearly one of the biggest justifications used by Zionist Israeli leaders to claim that all of Canaan from Galilee to the Sea belongs to Israel.
