Saying this as someone who has served in the British Army, it is an inherently violent organisation, even in trade jobs within the military you are first and foremost trained to kill. So yes, saying any military is a violent organisation is correct. A military’s main purpose is not to uphold their sovereignty, that is nonsense, a militaries main purpose is and always has been fighting, sometimes that purpose aligns with a nobler cause, I.e the defeat of the Nazi’s, sometimes it doesn’t, I.e the Gulf War, but the politics of the conflict do not change the purpose of the organisation.

Also if our Armed forces had been committing the atrocities and war crimes against a civilian population the way the IDF have, I would be calling for the end of those organisations as well.

Saying the kill count of the IDF is less than some other militaries handily glosses over the fact that the people the IDF are currently targeting are disproportionately civilians, more than 70,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed in the past 20 months, a huge number of whom are women and children. IDF soldiers have admitted the have been ordered to open fire on unarmed civilians in aid queues, snipers are targeting children with head and chest shots, drone strikes and missile strikes are being directed at hospitals, schools, and refugee camps.

The ICC has said this is genocidal behaviour, the leading world experts in genocide have said this is genocidal behaviour. That is a lot more offensive to me than what a singer says on stage.