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British punk rap duo Bob Vylan slams their anti-Israel rhetoric during a performance at the Glastonbury Music Festival on Tuesday.
In the post Share to their Instagram pagemusicians announced that they were “targeted” after being criticized and removed by the U.S. government because they said “death to IDF (Israel Defense Forces)” and other anti-Israeli slogans during the British Prime Minister’s Festival.
“We are targeting the words. We are not the first. We will not be the last. If you care about the sacredness of human life and freedom of speech, we also urge you to speak up.”
Bob Vylan performed on the West Holtz stage at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Somerset. Image date: Saturday, June 28, 2025. (YUI MOK/PA images via Getty Images)
“We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or a group of people,” Bob Vylan continued. “We are for the removal of a violent military machine. A machine whose own soldiers are told to treat innocent civilians with ‘unnecessary lethal forces’ to await aid. This machine has destroyed much of Gaza.”
One of a member of London in Saturday’s scene The rap group shouted“Death, death of the IDF, death”, while turning the microphone to the crowd, let the attendees repeat the chants. Video from the crowd showed several Palestinian flags waving as performers and attendees shouted back and forth.
Elsewhere during the show, he chanted “Free, Free, Free Palestine” and “Hell, from the river to the sea. Palestine must be Inshallah, it will be free.”
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Bob Vylan’s Bobby Vylan is on June 28, 2025 at the Glastonbury Festival in Glastonbury, England on the fourth day of 2025 at the West Holtz stage. The band said several anti-Israel slogans in the scene. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
Anti-Israel chanting has been popular on social media and has even caused complaints from the British government. The BBC reported that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the term “shocking hate speech”.
BBC broadcasts the festival’s BBC live, Deleted the Bob Weilan Collection From its iPlayer. The UK Network also told the Associated Press that it issued a warning label for “very strong and discriminatory language” during the live broadcast of the event.
Festival organizers took to Instagram to denounce the stunt.
They wrote: “The Glastonbury Festival was founded in 1970 and is a place where people come together and enjoy the best for music, art and humanity.”
British police in Somerset and Avon even reviewed videos of Bob Vylan’s performance to “determine if there is a possible crime that requires a criminal investigation.”
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U.S. Department of State Revoked the band’s visa Before the US tour later this year. A senior State Department official told Fox News on Monday that “Secretary of State is clear – the United States will not approve terrorist sympathizer visas.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued multiple warnings that the State Department would revoke visas for “terrorists” and their affiliation.
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The band said in response that the heat on them was “distracted” with what Israel did in Gaza.
They wrote: “We are like the spotlight before us, not the story. Our distraction to the story, any sanctions we receive will be distracted. The government does not want us to ask why they remain silent in the face of this atrocity? Ask why they don’t do more to stop the killing?
