Police say there is "insufficient" evidence for "a realistic prospect of conviction" over the performance at this year's Glastonbury Festival.

The rapper in punk duo Bob Vylan will not face further action over his “death death to the IDF” chants at Glastonbury Festival, police have said.

Rapper Bobby Vylan, real name is Pascal Robinson-Foster led crowds on the festival’s West Holts Stage in the chants about the Israel Defence Forces during the group’s performance in June.

Avon and Somerset Police said a criminal investigation was under way shortly afterwards, with a senior detective appointed to lead the investigation.

  • recentSlinky@lemmy.caEnglish
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    Who said anything about jews? They said idf. A known terroristic organisation. Just because it’s under a Jewish state doesn’t mean you should automatically associate them with all jews. That’s racist/antisemitic/discriminatory/etc. Do you also associate all Muslims with isis? All Americans with ice? That’s a messed up way to think. A small group’s action doesn’t represent everyone related to them. It only represent that group. And the idf is currently committing genocide.

    Also, calling for the death of a group is not the same as the death of the people. The idf should be dismantled and everyone involved and complicit should be prosecuted. So yes, death to the idf.

    Associating the action of the government of Israel to the jewish people is the most antisemitic thing people can do right now. And the fact that government is doing most of that should enrage you the most for flaring up that hate.