Bob Vylan led crowds in chants of “Death, death to the IDF”, a reference to the acronym for the Israeli military, during their set on Saturday.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer told The Telegraph Sunday that “there is no excuse for this kind of appalling hate speech.”
“The BBC needs to explain how these scenes came to be broadcast,“ he said, referring to the country’s national broadcaster.
The festival’s organisers said Bob Vylan’s comments had “very much crossed a line”.
Avon and Somerset police said Saturday that video evidence would be assessed by officers “to determine whether any offences may have been committed that would require a criminal investigation”.
The chants about Israel’s military were led by Bob Vylan’s frontman Bobby Vylan, and were broadcast live on the BBC, which airs coverage of Britain’s most popular music festival.
“I think the BBC and Glastonbury have got questions to answer about how we saw such a spectacle on our screens,“ he told Sky News.
But Streeting also took aim at the embassy, telling it to “get your own house in order”.
A spokesperson for the BBC said Vylan’s comments were “deeply offensive” and the broadcaster had “no plans” to make the performance available on its on-demand service.
‘A joke’
Starmer and other politicians had said the band should not perform after its member Liam O’Hanna, known by his stage name Mo Chara, was charged with a terror offence.
The Iran-backed Lebanese force Hezbollah and the Palestinian militant group Hamas are banned in the UK, and it is an offence to express support for them.
Kneecap regularly lead crowds in chants of “Free Palestine” during its concerts, and fans revere them for their anti-establishment stance and criticism of British imperialism. Their detractors however, call them extremists.
Israel began its offensive against Hamas in the Palestinian territory of Gaza after the militants launched an attack that resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures.
Israel’s retaliatory military campaign has killed at least 56,412 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to Hamas-run territory’s health ministry. The United Nations considers these figures to be reliable.
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