The United States announced on Monday (30), that they revoked the visas of the British duo of Punk-Rap Bob Vylan for chanting a song at the Glastonbury festival where they called for the death of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). During the show, one of two rappers shouted “death, death to the IDF!”, And asked the audience to do the same.
The initiative was condemned by British Prime Minister Keir Stmerer and the festival organizers, besides BBCwho televised the event and regretted not having interrupted the broadcast of Bob Vylan’s show.
In X, the Undersecretary of State, Christopher Landau, said the United States “revoked the visa of members of the band Bob Vylan in the light of the hateful acts in Glastonbury, which included convening the crowd to sing corners of death.”
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The Glastonbury Festival was under scrutiny due to the presence of another rap group, the North Band Band Kneecap, after one of its three members, Liam O’Hanna, known as Mo Chara, was accused of a “terrorist” crime for displaying a flag of the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah at a London show in 2024.
Kneecap and Bob Vylan also performed at the Coachella Festival in California. Both have shows scheduled for the end of the year in the United States.
