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British police said the performance of the Rap Bob Vylan punk punk weekend and the Irish language group Knecap are subject to a criminal investigation after songs called to “death” to Israeli soldiers and “free Palestine” songs at the Glastonbury Festival.
Police said on Monday that performances “had been recorded as a public order incident”.
Meanwhile, the US State Department said that it had revoked the American visas of Bob Vylan after the group created the controversy for its comments at the Music Festival.
US deputy secretary of state, Christopher Landau, said in an article on social networks that the decision had been taken “in the light of their hate tirade in Glastonbury”.
Earlier on Monday, the BBC said it should have removed a live broadcast of the performance of Bob Vylan, in which the group directed crowds of music in singing the British broadcaster called “anti -Semitic”.
The BBC was criticized for having broadcast the performance of the Rap Punk duo on Saturday, when Bobby Vylan directed crowds at the largest summer music festival in the “Free” Palestine “and” Death, Death to the IDF “, Israeli defense forces.
The broadcaster said on Monday that he “respects freedom of expression but that he firmly applies to incitement to violence” and that “the anti -Semitic feelings expressed by Bob Vylan were completely unacceptable and have no place on our waves”.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said there was no excuse for such a “appalling hate speech” and added that the BBC should explain “how these scenes were broadcast”.
Ofcom, the radio regulator, said that it was “very concerned” by the BBC livestream and said that the broadcaster “has clearly had questions to answer.”
Earlier, for her defense, the BBC noted that it had issued a warning to the screen of “a very strong and discriminatory language” during the Livestream.
The Israeli Embassy in the United Kingdom said during the weekend that it was “deeply disturbed by the inflammatory and hateful rhetoric expressed on stage at the Glastonbury” festival “.
Rap duo was produced on Irish rappers Knecap
Bob Vylan, who formed in 2017, released four albums by mixing punk, filth and other styles with words that often approach problems, including racism, masculinity and politics. His two members both keep their real secret names for reasons of confidentiality and go through the names of the Bobby Vylan and Bobbie Vylan stage.
In a declaration published on social networkssinger Bobby Vylan said he had been flooded with support and hatred messages.
“Teaching our children to speak for the change they want and they need is the only way to make this world better,” he wrote.
The duo played on Saturday afternoon just before the Irish-language rap group Knecap, another group that aroused controversy on its position on the Middle East policy.
One of its members was charged under the law on terrorism to support an organization prohibited after having pretended to stir a flag of Hezbollah during a concert.
The ball joint led a huge crowd in songs of “free Palestine” at the festival.
The acts were among the 4,000 that occurred in front of some 200,000 music fans this year at the Glastonbury Festival in southwest England.
Israel faced strong international criticisms for his war conduct in Gaza. In May, the United Kingdom, France and Canada published a strongly written statement calling for Israel to stop its flagrant military actions in Gaza and criticize the actions of Israel in occupied West Bank.
The war has ignited tensions in the world, triggering pro-Palestinian demonstrations in many university capitals and campuses. Israel and his supporters say that the demonstrations are anti -Semites, while criticism say that Israel uses such descriptions to silence the opponents.
More than 6,000 people were killed and more than 20,000 injured in Gaza since a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas collapsed in March. Since the start of the war in October 2023 with an attack on Hamas which killed 1,200 Israelis and took 251 other hostages, Israeli attacks have killed more than 56,000 people and injured 132,000, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
He does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but he said that women and children represent more than half of the 56,000 dead. Israel says that it only targets activists and blame Hamas civil death, accusing activists of hiding among civilians because they operate in populated areas.
