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2025-06-30 Britain
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UK ‘condemns’ ‘Death to IDF’ chants led by rapper at Glastonbury festival; police probing UPDATE: US State Dept. to pulls Bob Vylan visas before tour
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”Just say something to shut up the Jew-lovers — then we can get back to enjoying the music.” There are no surprises here — everyone knows what both bands are about, as well as the BBC, and clearly the powers that be agree with the sentiment or there would have been some sort of punishment. Follow up to this story from yesterday.
The British government said on Sunday that the BBC had questions to answer over anti-Israel chants by musicians at the Glastonbury music festival that police are probing.
Officers are studying videos of rapper Bobby Vylan leading crowds in chants of "Death, death to the IDF," the acronym for the Israeli army, during his set on Saturday.
| They apparently doubled their social media followers with this one trick, so perhaps selling their souls was worth it. On the other hand, that’s the kind of thing that’s a red mark for a visa application to the US State Department now, so hopefully they hadn’t planned to turn that increased social media presence into a profitable tour of the States. Kneecap’s Mo Chara just had to give up a sold out American tour because his visa was revoked. |
They are also examining comments by outspoken Irish rap trio Kneecap, one of whose members wore a T-shirt dedicated to Paleostine Action Group, which is about to be banned under UK terror laws.
The IDF chants, condemned by the Israeli embassy in London, were broadcast live on the BBC, which airs coverage of Britannia’s most popular music festival.
"I thought it’s appalling, to be honest, and I think the BBC and Glastonbury have got questions to answer about how we saw such a spectacle on our screens," Health Secretary Wes Streeting told Sky News.
The Israeli embassy said in a statement late Saturday that it was "deeply disturbed by the inflammatory and hateful rhetoric expressed on stage at the Glastonbury Festival."
But Streeting also took aim at the embassy, telling it to "get your own house in order."
"I think there’s a serious point there by the Israeli embassy. I wish they’d take the violence of their own citizens towards Paleostinians more seriously," he said, citing settler violence in the West Bank and the humanitarian crisis in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Streeting made similar remarks in an interview with the BBC.
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger...
organizers of the Glastonbury Festival said in a statement that they were "appalled" by the anti-Israel chants in Vylan’s set.
A tad too disingenuous there — try reading the line with more honest shock. They were warming up the crowd for Kneecap, which was rewarded with a spot in the Glastonbury lineup for exactly the same thing. That sure looks like approval to me. “Their chants very much crossed a line, and we are urgently reminding everyone involved in the production of the festival that there is no place at Glastonbury for antisemitism, hate speech, or incitement to violence,” said the festival.
“With almost 4,000 performances at Glastonbury 2025, there will inevitably be artists and speakers appearing on our stages whose views we do not share, and a performer’s presence here should never be seen as a tacit endorsement of their opinions and beliefs,” it added.
Yeah? How many openly pro-Israel performers were in the line up this year? Last year? The year before? A UK government spokesperson said Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy contacted the BBC’s director general to seek explanation on how Vylan’s show was broadcast.
“We strongly condemn the threatening comments made by Bob Vylan at Glastonbury,” the spokesperson added.
The BBC said it issued a warning on screen about “very strong and discriminatory language” during the livestream.
| And yet they continued airing the performance live, instead of turning away in disgust. Because they were not in the least disgusted. |
A spokesperson for the BBC said some of the comments by Vylan, part of British duo Bob Vylan, were “deeply offensive” and the broadcaster had “no plans to make the performance available on demand.”
Streeting was referring to an incident last week in which settlers reportedly attacked the West Bank village of Kafr Malik, torching cars and buildings. During clashes with IDF troops who arrived on the scene, three Palestinians were killed.
Amid the anti-Israel rhetoric from some of the performers at the music festival, which draws some 200,000 people annually, some in the crowd used the tradition of waving large flags during performances as an opportunity to draw attention to the plight of the hostages taken by Hamas during the October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel.
They also drew attention to the victims of the October 7 massacre at the Nova music festival, where some 380 people were brutally killed.
One image circulating online showed a black flag with a yellow ribbon emblazoned on it waving above a flag reading “We Will Dance Again” — the name of a documentary about the Nova festival massacre.
| Which Zionists know about, but everyone else just thinks is about dancing. |
‘A JOKE’
Avon and Somerset police said Saturday that video evidence would be assessed by officers “to determine whether any offenses may have been committed that would require a criminal investigation.”
Kneecap, who have made headlines in recent months with its pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel stance, led crowds in a chant against UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Starmer had said the band should not perform after its member Liam O’Hanna, known by his stage name Mo Chara, was charged with a terror offense.
O’Hanna appeared in court earlier this month accused of having displayed a Hezbollah flag while saying “Up Hamas, Up Hezbollah” after a video resurfaced of a London concert last year.
The Iran-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah and the Palestinian terror group Hamas are banned in the UK, and it is an offense to express support for them.
O’Hanna has denied the charge and told the Guardian in an interview published Friday that “it was a joke — we’re playing characters.”
Kneecap regularly lead crowds in chants of “Free Palestine” during its concerts. Its fans revere band members for their anti-establishment stance and criticism of British imperialism but critics call them extremists.
The group apologized this year after a 2023 video emerged appearing to show one singer calling for the death of British Conservative lawmakers.
A senior State Department official told The Daily Wire that it is “already looking at revocation” of their visas ahead of a roughly twenty-city tour through the United States, with performances planned in several major cities, including Washington, D.C.
“As a reminder, under the Trump Administration, the U.S. government will not issue visas to any foreigner who supports terrorists,” the senior official said.
Vocalist Pascal Robinson-Foster uses the stage name Bobby Vylan for his punk duo Bob Vylan—a name that nods to legendary Jewish singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, who released the pro-Israel song ‘Neighborhood Bully’ in 1983.
While performing at England’s annual Glastonbury Music Festival — which was live streamed on the BBC — Vylan incited his crowd of thousands to chant, “Death, death to the IDF.”
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