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A furniture curate has criticised chants astatine Glastonbury calling for "death to the IDF" - but has besides told the Israeli embassy to "get your ain location successful order".
Health Secretary Wes Streeting condemned the chants against the Israel Defence Forces - calling them "appalling" - but notably besides criticised the embassy implicit the behaviour of immoderate Israeli citizens successful the occupied West Bank.
Glastonbury Festival has said it is "appalled" by the statements made by Bobby Vylan, of punk duo Bob Vylan, during their acceptable connected Saturday - saying they "crossed a line".
Speaking to Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips, Mr Streeting said helium believed the BBC and Glastonbury had "questions to answer" implicit what helium called a "shameless publicity stunt" during the acceptable of Bob Vylan.
"I thought it was appalling, to beryllium honorable and I deliberation the BBC and Glastonbury person got questions to reply astir however we saw specified a spectacle connected our screens," helium said.
"But I besides deliberation it's a beauteous shameless publicity stunt, which I don't truly privation to springiness excessively overmuch indulgence to for that reason."
He said the absorption should alternatively beryllium connected "Israeli settler terrorists" attacking a Christian colony conscionable weeks aft mounting it connected fire.
He added: "I'd besides accidental to the Israeli embassy, get your ain location successful order, successful presumption of the behaviour of your ain citizens and the settlers successful the West Bank.
"So, you know, I deliberation there's a superior constituent determination by the Israeli embassy, I instrumentality seriously. I privation they'd instrumentality the unit of their ain citizens towards Palestinians much seriously.
"We each condemned and proceed to condemn what happened connected 7 October. We each privation to spot the instrumentality of the hostages. And there's nary justification for inciting unit against Israelis.
"But you know, the mode successful which Israel's conducting this warfare has made it highly hard for Israel's allies astir the satellite to basal by and justify. In fact, we've got to bash the other arsenic an planetary community, which is to situation and impulse a change."
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The Israeli embassy said it was "deeply disturbed" by the anti-IDF chants, which are being investigated by the police.
Video shows 1 of the members of Bob Vylan shouting the slogan into the mic and immoderate of the assemblage joining in.
The duo were performing ahead of a show by Kneecap, the Irish enactment the premier curate believed should person been banned from the world-famous festival.
"The Embassy of Israel successful the United Kingdom is profoundly disturbed by the inflammatory and hateful rhetoric expressed connected signifier astatine the Glastonbury Festival," a connection said.
It said slogans similar Saturday's chant "advocate for the dismantling of the State of Israel".
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The Conservatives besides criticised the incident, with Helen Whately, the shadiness enactment and pensions secretary, saying she was "shocked" by the footage.
"I was shocked to spot immoderate of the footage of that chanting of the crowd," she told Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips.
"And the euphony creator was ramping it up.
"I mean to me, also, 1 of the horrible things astir it is, evidently it's implicit a twelvemonth and a fractional agone that innocent, festivalgoers astatine a festival successful Israel were raped and murdered by Hamas - and past we person a euphony festival present successful the UK wherever you person a chant saying decease to the Israeli Armed Forces who are, you know, taking enactment to support radical from what Hamas did successful Israel.
"I conscionable deliberation it's disgusting."
She added: "Yes, I judge successful escaped speech, but that was incitement to violence. It was incitement to kill. That is not thing that we enactment successful this country."
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An Instagram station published by the festival connected Sunday greeting read: "As a festival, we basal against each forms of warfare and terrorism. We volition ever judge successful - and actively run for - hope, unity, bid and love.
"With astir 4,000 performances astatine Glastonbury 2025, determination volition inevitably beryllium artists and speakers appearing connected our stages whose views we bash not share, and a performer's beingness present should ne'er beryllium seen arsenic a tacit endorsement of their opinions and beliefs.
"However, we are appalled by the statements made from the West Holts signifier by Bob Vylan yesterday.
"Their chants precise overmuch crossed a enactment and we are urgently reminding everyone progressive successful the accumulation of the Festival that determination is nary spot astatine Glastonbury for antisemitism, hatred code oregon incitement to violence."
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