The government has “strongly condemned” chants at Glastonbury Festival from rap punk duo Bob Vylan calling for “death” to the Israeli military and broadcast live on the BBC.

Rapper Bobby Vylan led chants of “free, free Palestine” and “death, death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]” during their set, which came just before Belfast rap trio Kneecap.

A BBC spokesperson said some of the comments were “deeply offensive”, adding it had issued a warning on screen about “very strong and discriminatory language”. The set will not be available to rewatch on BBC iPlayer.

Police said they were reviewing videos of comments made by Bob Vylan and Kneecap to decide whether any offences had been committed.

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    12 hours ago

    Then better stop the genocide before antisemitism gets normalized. It will increase the longer this continues.

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      11 hours ago

      How does banking factor into the genocide in gaza, or did you just reach for whatever jewish stereotype came to mind first?

      It’s extremely easy to criticize Israel without being anti-Semitic and yet you failed spectacularly and have shown zero self reflection after getting correctly called out on it. Pathetic.

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        11 hours ago

        Oh, I’m not criticizing Israel. That’s a done conclusion. I’m questioning why politicians in other countries go along with this. As far as I can see, and that’s clearly shown, there’s very good lobbying, information campaigns and lots of money. Even the Eurovision contest was full of money and influencing. I’m assuming influence alone can’t do this, certainly not after protests. That leaves money. Who has a lot of money, meaning trillions, and reason to use it as leverage? Certain banks. Of course that’s forbidden to say, but that omerta thing going on is now part of the stereotype.