The British Police has announced the opening of an investigation by the chants against the Israel Defense Forces (FDI), the Israeli army, which were launched in the Punk duo concert Every vylan On Saturday of the Glastonbury Music Festival, whose organization has condemned as an act of “anti -Semitism.”
“We are aware of the comments made by the artists on the ‘West Holts’ stage at the Glastonbury Festival this afternoon. The officers will evaluate the video tests to determine if some crime has been committed that requires a criminal investigation,” said the British police force from their account in social network X.
The Police referred to the proclamations launched by Bobby Vylan, who enforced the thousands of attendees of the Glastonbiury Festival as soon as they begin their concert to the shouts of “Death, Death, Death to the IDF” (death, death, death to the FDI), to which international organizations have accused of perpetrating indiscriminate matches against the civilian population during the civilian population during the civilian population Gaza
The Kneecap Irish rap group could also be investigated, which has encouraged attendees to their concert to cause “disturbances” in the next appointment that one of its members has with the Justice of the United Kingdom. The judicial citation of Mo Chara, whose real name is Liam óg or Hannaidh (transcribed in the complaint as Liam O’Hanna)-Membro of the band-responds to the exhibition of a flag of the Chií Milicia Libanés Lebanese Hezbollah in a concert held in London on November 21, 2024.
Before the Glastonbury Festival, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, had requested the cancellation of the Kneecap concert by not considering it “appropriate.” “The prime minister of his country, not mine, said he did not want us to play, so the devil with Keir Starmer,” said another of the members of the rap group, Cailrain, in reference to the reunification of Ireland and the exit of the British government of Ireland of the North, a political position defended by the group.
After the concert, Starmer himself has criticized has condemned the “unfortunate hate speech” for “death to the IDF” songs and has summoned the BBC to give explanations of why they were broadcast. “There is no excuse for this kind of unfortunate hate speech. I said that Kneecap did not have to give Kneecap a platform and that also goes for any other action in which there are threats or incitement to violence. The BBC must explain how those scenes were broadcast,” he argued.
The organization condemns the songs
The organizer of Glastonbury, Emily Eavis, daughter of the founder of the festival, has convicted the songs and regretted that “they have gone from the line,” according to a statement collected by the British chain Sky News. “Its songs totally exceeded the limits and we urgently remind them of all involved in the production of the festival that in Glastonbury there is no place for anti -Semitism, hate discourse or incitement to violence,” he said.
In the note, Eavis explained that “as a festival we oppose all forms of war and terrorism, and we will always believe in hope, unity, peace and love, and we will actively campaign for them”, the comments of an artist “should never be seen as a tacit back to their opinions and beliefs.”
The BBC has described the comments of Bob Vylan as “deeply offensive”. “During the live broadcast in Iplayer a notice on the screen warning of the very strong and discriminatory language was included. We do not plan to be available on the platform on demand,” he explained. Also the Israeli embassy in London has claimed to be “deeply shocked by the incendiary and hate rhetoric expressed in the stage of the Glastonbury Festival.”
