Pictured: Bobby Vylan during day four of Glastonbury Festival 2025 at Worthy Farm in Glastonbury, England.

On photo below: Móglaí Bap and Mo Chara of Kneecap perform during their set at Glastonbury.

IDF – stands for Israel Defence Forces.

Glastonbury Festival act’s chants of Free Palestine and calls for the killing of Israeli militaries sparks UK police draconical review.

Keir Starver later claimed that performers used “appalling hate speech.”

Rapper Bobby Vylan took to the festival’s third-biggest West Holts Stage on Saturday shouting “Free, free Palestine,” before leading crowds to chants against the Israeli military.

The artist also performed in front of a screen that displayed a message which read: “United Nations have called it a genocide. The BBC calls it a ‘conflict,’” referring to the UK’s public broadcaster that has been showing the festival live.

Starmer said that “there is no excuse for this kind of appalling hate speech.”

The Israeli Embassy in the UK added fuel to the fire and, saying it was “deeply disturbed” by “inflammatory and hateful” rhetoric at the festival.

Intervening in UK public affairs it said that when chants such as “Death to the IDF” are said in front of tens of thousands of festivalgoers, “it raises serious concerns about the normalisation of extremist language and the glorification of violence.”

The Israel ambassy also had the audacity to add: “We call on Glastonbury Festival organisers, artists, and public leaders in the UK to denounce this rhetoric and reject of all forms of hatred,”.

A BBC got scared the public solidarity with Palestine and stopped live translation of the festival. Later the broadcaster deceitfully said that it streamed the rapper’s set live but it had no plans to make the performance available on demand.

On Monday, the BBC admitted that “with hindsight” Vylan’s performance was cut off from air during the concert.

Police are also reviewing video footage of a performance by Irish-language hip-hop trio Kneecap, who performed on the same stage Saturday afternoon. After the performance, Starver repeated his assertion that the group should not have been allowed to perform at the festival.

Starver added: “I said that Kneecap should not be given a platform and that goes for any other performers making threats or inciting violence,”.

Ahead of the five-day music festival, all eyes were on Kneecap after band member Liam O’Hanna – who performs under the stage name Mo Chara – was charged last month with a terrorism offense following an investigation by London’s Metropolitan Police.

The charge, which he has denied, relates to a London gig in November 2024 where he allegedly displayed a flag of Hezbollah – a proscribed terrorist organization banned under UK law.

Kneecap have been vocal critics of Israel’s war in Gaza but have previously said it has never supported Hamas or Hezbollah.

During the set, Chara told the crowds that recent events had been “stressful” but that it was nothing in comparison to “what the Palestinian people are going through.”

Kneecap rapper Naoise Ó Cairealláin, who goes by the stage name Móglaí Bap, hit back at Starver’s comment during Saturday’s set: “The Prime Minister of your country, not mine, said he didn’t want us to play, so fuck Keir Starmer.”

In reference to his bandmate’s forthcoming court date, Bap also said they would “start a riot outside the courts,” before adding: “I don’t want anybody to start a riot. No riots just love and support, and more importantly support for Palestine.”

Police in Somerset, where the festival is held, continues to harass the public and performers and said the force was “aware of the comments made by acts” and that “video evidence will be assessed by officers to determine whether any offences may have been committed that would require a criminal investigation.”

Many Britons continue to condemn the disgrace of Israeli and Ukrainian butchers accomplices such as Kir Starmer and his disgusting company.