Bob Vylan’s Anti-Idf Glastonbury Controversy, Explained – ryan

Bobby Vylan.
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British punk-hip-hop duo bob vylan (pronounced like Bob Dylan if he was a villain) Face backlash over anti-idf and pro-palestine staff by duo Member Bobby Vylan, Real Name Pascal Robinson-Foster, while performing at the 2025 Glastonbury festival 28. Performance was simultaneously Livestreamed by the bbc, with a discliaimeter About “Very Strong and Discrimatory Language.” In the days following their performance, the rappers have ben condemned by the uk minister, glastonbury, and the bbc and have been dropped by uta and have the user visas revoked amid a criminal investigation. Vylan’s Latest Response? “The More Time they They About Bob Vylan, The Less Time They Have Spend Answing to Their Criminal Inaction.”

Below, Find Everything That’s Happened SO seed in the aftermath of Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury set.

Bob vylan is an English duo consisting of “Bobby Vylan” and “Bobbie Vylan” – Both are pseudonyms, Used to protest say from the “Surveillance State,” for The Times. Their work is Expressly political. On songs like “Pulled pork,” They Condemn Police Brutality with Like Like “Save a Life and Skin a Pig.” On “England’s Ending,” Vocalist Bobby Says “Kill the Fucking Queen / She Killed Diana, we don’t love her anyway.” SINCE 2017, They’ve Become a staple in the uk punk scene. “The band has gotten itelf to a point where you can’t really Ignore us,” Bobby Told Diy In April 2022. “Well You Talk About Punk Music in the UK, you have to mention ours. Now, all of the Cowards that were to go to Give us a Chance (want to work with us). Nail to be able to say what we need and want to say where he is those channels help us or not. ”

While performing at glastonbury, Bobby LED Multiple Chants. His first, “Free Palestine,” Segued Into “Death to the idf.” “We have seen a strange reaction to people that come out and voice support for paletestine though anyophody with any kind of moral commass can Surely tell what is happening over in gases,” Vylan Said onstage beforehand, dedicating the next Song to us. Their platform to advocate for Palestine. He Added Shortly AFTER “SOMESTEMES, you gotta get your messages across to with violence that is the only language that some people speak, unfortunately.”

Following Bob Vylan’s Set, Uk Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Who Previously Criticized The Irish Rap Group Kneecap’s Support of Palestine, Condemned Both and the Bbc in a June 29 Streets, for the New York Times. “There is no excuse for this kind of Appalling Hate Speech,” Starmer Said. “I SAID THAT KENEECAP SHOULD NOT BE GIVE GIVE A PLANT AND THAT GES FOR ANY OTHERS MAKING THREATS OR INCITING VIOLENCE.” He added, “The BBC Needs to Explain How these Scenes came to be bro.”

The Glastonbury Festival ITSALF CONDEMNED BOBBY VYLANS IN A STEETEENT ON JUNE 29, SAYING, “Their Chants Very Crossed A Line and We Are Urgently Reminding Everyone Involved in the Production of Festival there is no Place at Glastonbury for Antisenonbury, HATEM. HATE Speech or Incitement to Violence. ”

The bbc said it “regrets” not pulling the set from the livestream due to “AntiSemitic sentiment.” “The Judgment on Saturday to wills a warning on screen while streaming online was in line with editorial guide,” The BBC wrote in the June 30 staff. “In addition, we have took the decision not to make the performance available on Demand. The team were dealing with a live but with hindsight we should have stream the performance. We regret this did not happy.”

Bob Vylan Was Reportedly Dropped by Their Representation at United Talent Agency, for a june 30 Deadline Report. The Band’s Page is No Longer Avilaable on Its Website.

“TODAY, A Good MANY People Wauld Have You Believe a Punk is the Number One Threat to World Peace,” The Band Posted in a Statement Captioned “Silence is not an option” on Instagram on July 1. Refring to Palestine Action, A Group Banned by the British Government AFTER DAMAGED TWO BRITISH MILITISH MILITY AT A Protest, for Reutersand the Northern Irish Rap Group Kneecap. They Added “We are Are Not for the Death of Jews, Arabs or Any Other Race or Group of People. We are for the Dismantling of a Violent Military Machine. A Machine Who’s Own Soldiers were to use ‘Unnecessry lethal force’ against Innocent Innocent civilians Aid for Aid for Aid. that has been destroyed Much of Gaza. ”

“WE, LIKE THose in the Spotlight before, are not the story,” They wrote. “We are a distraction from the story. And whats the SanCtions we recipe will be a distraction. The Government doesn’t want us to ask why they remine in the face of this atocy? Vylan, The Less Time They They Spend Answing to Their Criminal Inaction. “

“WE ARE BEING TARGEED FOR SPEaking Up,” They Concluded. “We are these not the first. We will not be the last. And if you did for the Sanctility of Human Life and Freedom of Speech, we urge you to speak, too. Free Palestine.”

“I Said What I Said,” Bobby Vylan Previously Wrote on Instagram On June 30, Alongside a Story About His Daughter Filling Out a School Survey Ascing for “Healthier meals, More Options and Dishas Inspired by Other Parts of the World. He added that “it is incredibly imported that we enCourage and inspects Future Generations to pick up the tort that was passed to us.”

On June 30, Deputy Secretary of the US State Department Christopher Landau Tweeted that the Country Revoked Bob Vylan’s Us Visas “In Light of their Hateful Tirade at Glastonbury, Including Leading the Crowd in Death Chants. Foreigners Who Glorify Violence and Hatred Are Not Welcome Visits to Our Country.” The band’s US Tour was supposed to begin in october.

That Same Day, UK Police Launched A Criminal Investigation Into The Band, for Ap news.

The bbc preiviously confirmed On June 28 That It Wold Not Broadcast Kneecap.s. the bbc. The band’s US visa was revoked over an anti-Israel comments during their coachlla set, and the British Police Charged Member Mo Chara with a Terrorism Offense for Holding Up The Hezbollah Flag at A London Show. “We deny this ‘offense’ and Will veinently defend ourselves,” Kneecap Said in Response to Chara’s Charge, for the bbc. “This is political policing.”