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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Laura Snapes

BBC partly upholds complaints over Bob Vylan’s performance at Glastonbury festival

Bob Vylan performing at Glastonbury on 28 June 2025.
Bob Vylan performing at Glastonbury on 28 June 2025. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

The BBC has partly upheld complaints over its decision to stream the punk duo Bob Vylan’s performance at this year’s Glastonbury festival.

The broadcaster’s executive complaints unit (ECU) said that doing so broke editorial guidelines in relation to harm and offence owing to frontman Bobby Vylan’s chant of “death, death to the IDF”, their use of the slogans “from the river to the sea” and “free, free Palestine”, as well as referring to record company executives “in the most abusive terms” as “fucking Zionists”.

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