In April 2017, thousands of wealthy Westerners headed to the Bahamas for Fyre, a luxury music festival. They expected villas and meals from celebrity chefs. What they got was soaked tents and cheese sandwiches. Watching the Netflix documentary, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, it is difficult not to cringe as you see it slowly dawn on the privileged tourists that the whole thing is a con.
We saw a similar case of privileged Western delusion meeting reality in Egypt this weekend. Some 4,000 activists had descended on Cairo for the ‘Global March to Gaza’. They expected to take buses to Arish, a city in northern Sinai, before marching 30 miles to the Egyptian side of the Gaza border at Rafah. There they would break Israel’s blockade.
This is awful. Awful funny.
Stunning footage coming out of Egypt thanks to comrade Crispin Flintoff @CrispinShow.
Welsh nurse confronts and pleads with Egyptian security forces to let them pass.
Crispin thankfully safe after the attacks yesterday on the protestors.
Watch the show tomorrow at 10.30.… pic.twitter.com/AOSamjs4qh
— David Miller (@Tracking_Power) June 14, 2025
