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British Airways (BA) has paused its sponsorship of The Louis Theroux Podcast pursuing an interrogation with Bob Vylan's frontman.
Pascal Robinson-Foster, 1 fractional of the arguable punk duo, told Theroux successful an occurrence which aired earlier this week that helium was "not regretful" of chanting "death, decease to the IDF [Israel Defence Forces]" astatine this year's Glastonbury.
He added that helium would "do it again tomorrow, doubly connected Sundays".
British Airways said connected Saturday that the contented "breaches" its sponsorship argumentation and has since paused its advertizing connected the podcast, the Jewish News archetypal reported.
An hose spokesperson said: "Our sponsorship of the bid has present been paused and the advert has been removed.
"We're grateful that this was brought to our attention, arsenic the contented intelligibly breaches our sponsorship argumentation successful narration to politically delicate oregon arguable taxable matters.
"We and our third-party media bureau person processes successful spot to guarantee these issues don't hap and we're investigating however this happened."
Following Bob Vylan's Glastonbury performance, the set were dropped by a fig of festivals and performances including Radar festival, a amusement astatine a German euphony venue and their US circuit aft their visas were revoked.
The comments were condemned by the US arsenic a "hateful tirade" and "appalling hatred speech" by British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
The BBC's Executive Complaints Unit has since recovered the broadcast of Bob Vylan's acceptable breached editorial standards related to harm and offence.
The set person besides had to reschedule dates of its upcoming We Won't Go Quietly UK circuit successful Manchester and Leeds aft Jewish leaders and politicians called for the amusement to beryllium postponed.
In a connection connected Facebook, the radical said: "Due to governmental unit from the likes of Bridget Phillipson and groups successful the Northwest of England we person had to reschedule our Leeds and Manchester shows.
"All tickets stay valid and each different shows are continuing arsenic planned."
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When asked by Theroux, Vylan said helium was taken aback by the uproar the chant has caused, saying: "It wasn't similar we came disconnected stage, and everybody was similar [gasps]. It's conscionable normal."
He added that helium wanted an extremity to "the oppression that Palestinian radical are facing".
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Despite the criticism, the radical person seen enactment from fans, with their medium Humble As The Sun re-entering the charts and climbing to fig 1 successful the UK Hip Hop and R&B medium category.
A spokesperson astatine Mindhouse Productions - which was founded by Theroux and produces The Louis Theroux Podcast - has not commented connected the BA sponsorship, but told Sky News: "Louis is simply a writer with a agelong past of speaking to arguable figures who whitethorn disagreement opinion.
"We would suggest radical ticker oregon perceive to the interrogation successful its entirety to get the afloat discourse of the conversation."
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