
The U.S. State Department said that it has revoked visas to the Bob Vylan duo for leading a chant of “death” to the Israeli Defense Forces at a music festival in the United Kingdom last weekend.
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau wrote on X on Monday, “The State Department has revoked the US visas for the members of the Bob Vylan band in light of their hateful tirade at Glastonbury, including leading the crowd in death chants. Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country.”
Video of the chant showed Bobby Vylan shouting “free, free Palestine” and “death, death to the IDF.” Vylan also posted the video to his Instagram account. “I said what I said,” he wrote on Sunday.
The group has a North American tour scheduled with Grandson starting in October.
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Police in Avon and Somerset are investigating Bob Vylan and Kneecap’s performances for what was described as a “public order incident.”
The BBC has said that it regretted not cutting the livestream of the festival for the “antisemitic sentiments,” while their agents at UTA have dropped them.
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Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau wrote on X on Monday, “The State Department has revoked the US visas for the members of the Bob Vylan band in light of their hateful tirade at Glastonbury, including leading the crowd in death chants. Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country.”
Yet bibi nothingbutayahoo is always welcome.
EYEROLL.
This is a really fun act. Saw ‘em open a show a couple of years ago. Really affable stage banter. Very interested in really agreeable global human rights issues. If you’re interpreting this act as the bad guys, then I’ve got some news for you.
I wish the United States government were more concerned about housing, poverty, effective taxation, next-generation energy, and technology that will keep our workforce competitive in the coming decades.
This is a contrived culture war distraction, from an administration that’s desperately trying to get us to stop paying attention to things that really matter.
Ryan, I don’t know where you live but from my side of the Pond, this is not “a contrived culture war distraction, from an administration that’s desperately trying to get us to stop paying attention to things that really matter.” We are desperately trying to hang on by our fingernails to the laws framed by our Constitution which kept us safe and *able* to maintain the decency enough to tax properly, feed, house and *truly* care for one another. I can’t believe what’s going on here–I just can’t. I am old enough to remember the ways JFK and LBJ responded–especially–LBJ with a flurry of Civil Rights Bills that *did* start to fight the hate and poverty; that program of his was called the War On Poverty. The Republicans later called it wasteful spending.
Denounce hate speech on all sides, how hard is that? No need to make this a left or right issue.
“Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country.”
No. Only Republican politicians are allowed to do that in ‘Murica.