Glastonbury organisers ‘appalled’ by Bob Vylan’s anti-IDF remarks during performance | Glastonbury 2025

Glastonbury organizers, the festival “hope, unity, peace and love” something against the Punk duo provoked violence after the interpretation of the Bob Vylan “horrified” said.

On Saturday afternoon, on the West Holts scene, he referred to the London group Israeli defense forces and cheered “death, death, death to IDF”.

Bobby Vylan, the front man of the duo, who describes himself as a “violent punk ,, said:“ Sometimes we should strongly meet our message because some people are the only language in which they speak. ”

The Irish Rap Triple Sets were released live on the BBC, but since then, the flow services have been removed. A BBC spokesman said that some of Bob Vylan’s comments were “deeply disturbing”.

A decision was made before the string performance was not shown live, and will violate the “editorial directives ü on impartiality due to fears.

Meanwhile, Avon and Somperset police said that the power was investigating both performances to see if any crime has committed.

Glastonbury’s organizer Emily Eavis made a joint statement condemning Bob Vylan’s words: “As a festival, we stand against all war and terrorism. We will always believe in hope, unity, peace and love and actively campaign.

“Glastonbury will be artists and speakers who appear in our stages that we inevitably share their views with approximately 4,000 performances in 2025, and the presence of an artist should never be seen as a implicit approval of his views and beliefs.

“However, yesterday, we were horrified by the statements made from Bob Vylan’s Western Holts scene. The conditions have passed a line and we remind everyone who participated in the construction of the festival is not a place to encourage anti -Semitism, hate speech or violence.”

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Telegraph: “There is no excuse for such a terrible hate speech. Dinekap should not be given a platform and this applies to threat or provoke violence. BBC needs to explain how these scenes are published.”

Wes Streeting previously described the hymn as “terrible ve, and said that BBC and Glastonbury had questions to answer, but that he had strong words for Israel.

Responding to a statement condemning the performance of the Israeli Embassy, ​​the Health Secretary said: “First, if I take the equivalent of the war in Ukraine, it is clear which side of this war I was.

“I will also take your own home in terms of the behavior of your own citizens and settlers in the West Bank. So, you know, there is a serious point by the Israeli Embassy. I wish they would take the violence of their own citizens more seriously.”

During the festival, artists from the full section of the music scene supported the Palestinian cause.

At the end of his speech, CMAT and Libertines shouted “Free Palestine ,, on the radio TV, Sadgüm and Paloma Faith on the scene of Palestinian flags or keffiyeh scarves.

The musician Nadine Shah took the stage in front of a ground showing the destruction in Gaza in the early hours of Sunday afternoon. Many said that he waved the Palestinian flags: orum I don’t like to see people killed. ”

If a Commons vote proceeds on its way to the next week, Shah read an open letter from Palestinian British artists to support the activist group of activist group Palestinian action, which Yette Cooper plans to be banned as a terrorist organization.

“The Palestinian action intervenes to stop a genocide. He moves to save life. We destroy the government’s decision to ban him. The abuse of a language of terrorism and the labeling of direct action that does not contain violence because it is an attack on democracy.

“The real threat to the life of the nation is not from the Palestinian action, but from the Interior Minister’s efforts to ban him.

Shah added: “And if I read it after 4 July, I can be prosecuted potentially for this.”

The Israeli Embassy said that Bob Vylan is deeply uncomfortable with inflammatory and hateful discourse expressed on the stage at the Glastonbury Festival.

A statement about X said: “Freedom of expression is the cornerstone of democracy. However, when the speech transfers to the encouragement, hatred and advocacy of ethnic cleansing, it should be called especially when it is strengthened by public figures on leading platforms.

“Death to IDF ‘and’ from the river to the sea ‘cheers, the disassembly of the state of Israel and the Jewish are the slogans that advocate the elimination of self -determination. Such messages cause serious concerns about the normalization of extreme language and glory before faced with tens of thousands of festival players and applause.