Hawzah News Agency- Prominent supporters of Israel’s bombing of Gaza have urged British police to arrest the artists.
The BBC, which broadcast the performance live. British immigration minister Chris Philip has called on police to “investigate and prosecute” the BBC, the UK’s public broadcaster, for airing the performance.
The two members of the band are known by their stage names, Bobby Whelan and Bobby Whelan.
"I said what I said'', Bobby Vylan posted on Instagram on Sunday. “Let us display to [future generations] loudly and visibly the right thing to do when we want and need change. Let them see us marching in the streets, campaigning on ground level, organising online and shouting about it on any and every stage that we are offered''.
In a further escalation, the Israeli government waded into the debate with its embassy in London denouncing "inflammatory and hateful rhetoric" at Glastonbury and specifically criticising the chant "from the river to the sea". This statement drew widespread derision online.
British Health Secretary Wes Streeting responded by telling the Israeli embassy to "get your own house in order", pointing to settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank - although he also criticised Bob Vylan's chant.
Independent MP Adnan Hussain struck a different note to most politicians, saying on social media platform X: "Personally, I find genocide way more offensive than how an artist chooses to express their anger, over said genocide''.
So did Labour MP Zarah Sultana, who asked: "Why is our media and political class more outraged by musicians showing solidarity with Palestine than by a UK government directly complicit in genocid.
Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former director of communications, questioned the media outcry over Bob Vylan's chant, highlighting in a post on X that hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza have been killed in Israeli assaults targeting or impacting aid seekers.
Source: MIDDlE EAST EYE
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