Antisemitic incidents spiked in UK after Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury anti-IDF chants, says charity

Bobby Vylan, rapper with punk duo Bob Vylan, led chants of ‘death, death to the IDF’ while onstage at the Glastonbury festival. The performance was livestreamed by the BBC. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Reports of antisemitic incidents in the UK spiked the day after the punk duo Bob Vylan’s anti-IDF remarks at Glastonbury, campaigners have said.

There were 26 incidents reported on 29 June – the highest daily total of incidents in the first half of 2025 – according to the Community Security Trust (CST), a monitoring and Jewish community safety organisation.