The British government said on Sunday that the BBC had questions to answer the anti-Israeli songs of the musicians of the Glastonbury Music Festival that the police are probe.
The officers study videos of rapper Bobby Vylan leading crowds in songs of “Death, died at the FDI», The acronym of the Israeli army, during his set on Saturday.
They also examine the comments by the Irish trio of the Irish trio, one of the members of which wore a t-shirt dedicated to the Palestine action group, which is about to be prohibited by British terrorist laws.
The songs of TSAhal, condemned by the Israeli Embassy in London, were broadcast live on the BBC, which broadcasts the cover of the most popular music festival in Great Britain.
“I thought it was appalling, to be honest, and I think that the BBC and Glastonbury had questions to answer about how we saw such a show on our screens,” said health secretary Wes Stting.
The Israeli embassy said in a statement on Saturday evening that it was “deeply disturbed by the inflammatory and hateful rhetoric expressed on stage at the Glastonbury festival”.
“The BBC and Glastonbury have questions to answer”
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But the street also targeted the embassy, telling him to “put your own house in order”.
“I think there is a serious point by the Israeli embassy. I hope they take the violence of their own citizens more seriously towards the Palestinians,” he said, citing the violence of the settlers in the West Bank and in a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Street made similar comments in an interview with the BBC.
Meanwhile, the organizers of the Glastonbury Festival said in a statement that they were “dismayed” by anti-Israeli songs in the Vylan set.
“Their songs have crossed a line a lot, and we are urgently recalled all the people involved in the production of the festival that there is no place in Glastonbury for anti -Semitism, the speech of hatred or the incitement to violence,” said the festival.
“With nearly 4,000 performances in Glastonbury 2025, there will inevitably be artists and speakers appearing on our stages whose opinions we do not share, and the presence of an artist here should never be considered as a tacit approval of their opinions and beliefs,” he added.
A spokesman for the British government said that the secretary of culture Lisa Nandy had contacted the director general of the BBC to seek an explanation on the way in which the Vylan’s show was broadcast.
“We strongly condemn the threatening comments made by Bob Vylan in Glastonbury,” added the spokesperson.
The BBC said that it has issued a warning to the “very strong and discriminatory language” screen during live broadcast.
A BBC spokesman said that some of Vylan’s comments, which were part of the British duo Bob Vylan, were “deeply offensive” and that the broadcaster “did not intend to make the performance available on demand”.
The anti -Semitism vile with full display in Glastonbury while rapper Bob Vylan encourages a crowd of 200,000 with hateful and violent songs.
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– Creative community for peace (@CCFPEACE) June 28, 2025
Street referred to an incident last week in which the colonists would have attacked the village of Cisjordanie de Kafr MalikFire of cars and buildings. During clashes with troops of TSAhal who arrived at the scene, three Palestinians were killed.
In the midst of the anti-Israeli rhetoric of some of the interpreters of the music festival, which attracts some 200,000 people a year, some in the crowd used the tradition of agitating large flags during performance as an opportunity to draw attention to the fate of the hostages taken by Hamas in October 7, 2023, the invasion of the south of Israel.
They also drew attention to the victims of the October 7 massacre at Nova Music Festival, where some 380 people were brutally killed.
An image circulating online showed a black flag with a yellow ribbon with it by waving a flag reading “We Will Dance Again” – the name of a documentary on the massacre of the Nova Festival.
‘A joke’
Naoise o Caireallain, on the left, and Liam Og of the Hip Hop Knecap trio occur during the Glastonbury festival at Worthy Farm, Somerset, England, June 28, 2025. (Scott a Garfitt / Invision / AP)
Avon and Somerset police said on Saturday that video evidence would be assessed by police “to determine whether offenses may have been committed that would require a criminal investigation.”
The ball joint, which has made the headlines in recent months with its pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli position, led crowds in a song against British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Starmer had said that the group should not play after its member Liam O’hanna, known by his stage name Mo Chara, was accused of a terrorist offense.
O’hanna appeared before the court Earlier this month, accused of having displayed a Hezbollah flag while saying “Up Hamas, Up Hezbollah” after a video resurfaced from a London concert last year.
The Lebanese terrorist group supported by Iran, Hezbollah and the Palestinian terrorist group, Hamas are prohibited in the United Kingdom, and it is an offense to their support.
The flag of Palestine is agitated in a crowd of festival -goers at the performance of the trio of the Hip Hop trio at the Glastonbury festival in Worthy Farm, Somerset, England, Saturday June 28, 2025. (Scott a Garfitt / Invis / AP)
O’hanna denied the accusation and told the Guardian in an interview published on Friday that “it was a joke – we play characters”.
The ball joints regularly leads crowds in songs of “free Palestine” during its concerts. His fans venerate members of the group for their anti-establishment position and their criticism of British imperialism, but critics call them extremists.
The group apologized this year after a 2023 video emerged seeming to show a singer calling for the death of the British conservative legislators.
