The British police are investigating video images of the Glastonbury performances of PunkDuo Bob Vylan and hip-hop group Kneecap. A band member of Bob Vylan, who performed on Saturday, would have called ‘Death, Death to the IDF’ (dead, death to the Israeli army). Members of the Northern Irish Kneecap would have called ‘Fuck Keir Starmer’ about the British Prime Minister several times. The police are going to look at the images “to determine whether criminal offenses have been committed.”
Prior to the festival, the question was whether Kneecap, which is known for its support to the Palestinian case, could perform there at all. Last May, the British anti -terrorist police opened an investigation into the group after the members during concerts, among other things, had called “the only good conservative,” up Hamas, Up Hezbollah “. The British Labor Prime Minister Starmer left The Sun Knowing that a performance by Kneecap on Glastonbury, one of the leading festivals in Europe, would be “not appropriate”.
That performance came anyway, and the fuck Keir Starmer-Leuzen were therefore a direct response to the pronunciation of the British Prime Minister. Nevertheless had ongoing criticism of – especially conservative – Politicians do effect. Shortly before the performance, the BBC decided not to broadcast the Kneecap concert live. To this end, Kemi Badenoch, leader of the conservative party, had called up the British broadcaster. “The BBC should not broadcast a propaganda from Kneecap. (…) If a publicly funded platform should not reward the BBC Extremism.”
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For the time being, Kneecap has not publicly responded to the police investigation, but it regularly expresses criticism. About the indictment of last May said the band: “14,000 babies are about to die from the hunger in Gaza, while the food that the world has sent on the other side of the wall is directed against us again. This police performance is politics, this is a carnival of distraction. We are not the story, genocide is the story.”
The members of Bob Vylan have also not yet responded, but the BBC and the festival organization have already commented on the slogans of the punk duo. The broadcaster calls some slogans “deeply offensive” and says that it therefore showed the warning “insulting and discriminatory language” as a disclaimer on the screen. The BBC has also decided that the Bob Vylan concert can no longer be seen in the ompayer of the broadcaster. Glastonbury did not accept “hate -sowing statements or inciting violence in any form” on Sunday.