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Bob\u00a0Vylan<\/a> have responded to the news that police will take no further action into the chants during their\u00a0Glastonbury 2025<\/a>\u00a0set.<\/p>\n Yesterday (December 23), Avon and Somerset Police confirmed that the chants \u2013\u00a0which included \u201cdeath, death to the IDF\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0did not \u201cmeet the criminal threshold\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and therefore they would not be continuing their investigation.<\/p>\n In a lengthy post on Instagram today (December 24), frontman Bobby Vylan said the investigation was \u201cnever warranted\u201d as the Glastonbury set was \u201cevidently not hateful\u201d but rather \u201ca display of solidarity with the Palestinian people\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThe arrival of the news that no further action will be taken against any member of Bob Vylan regarding our Glastonbury performance in June 2025, should be something we as a band find celebration in. But the fact is, the criminal investigation of the chant was never warranted in the first place,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cOver the past 6 months, the media and politicians have consistently attacked us for using our art and platform to take a stand against the actions of Israel and its illegal occupying military force.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cFor the past 6 months, Avon and Somerset police have investigated a small segment of a performance that was\u00a0evidently not\u00a0hateful, but\u00a0was a display of solidarity with the Palestinian people.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued:\u00a0\u201cScare tactics have been used by every arm that the British government has at its disposal. Through the media,\u00a0politicians\u00a0and the police, they have\u00a0sought\u00a0to ensure that our actions at Glastonbury do not spark a trend in escalating support for Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n Vylan\u00a0went on to accuse the British government of \u201cdoing everything it can to stifle the voices\u201d that oppose the \u201cmurder\u201d of Palestinians, adding:\u00a0\u201cMusicians, comedians, doctors,\u00a0students\u00a0and pensioners have all become targets. If we believed that the British media,\u00a0politicians\u00a0and police had any sense of self-awareness and capacity for shame, we would ask them to reflect on what they have allowed to continue by trying to suppress the voices of those speaking out. But we are far too aware that they\u00a0have none.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo instead, we hope that this news inspires others in the UK and around the world to speak up, and continue speaking up, in support of the Palestinian people, without fear. We have had our shows cancelled, visas revoked, our names tarnished and our lives\u00a0upended, but what we have lost in peace and security, we have gained tenfold in spirit and camaraderie. And that is unbreakable.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n He concluded:\u00a0\u201cThank you to everybody that has supported us in any way throughout the attempts to silence us, it has been beautiful to feel such community gather around.\u00a0Free Palestine. Free the Filton 24. Free Sudan. Free Congo. And may all oppressed people the world over, resist the boot of tyranny on the neck of freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n In their statement, police said they conducted \u201ca voluntary police interview under caution\u201d with a man in his mid-30s in November, and they say they also spoke to approximately 200 members of the public to see if they had been the victim of a criminal offence.<\/p>\n \u201cWe sought specific consideration around the words stated, in terms of the intent behind them, the\u00a0wider context of how people heard what was said, case law and anything else potentially relevant, including freedom of speech,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n In response to the decision, the Community Security Trust, a charity that provides protection to Jewish communities in the UK, said: \u201cIt is incredibly disappointing that the police and CPS have decided not to charge in this case, particularly when police forces in London and Manchester are adopting a stronger approach to tackling hateful rhetoric.<\/p>\n \u201cIt sends completely the wrong message at the worst possible time.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n The Metropolitan police said last month they would close their own investigation into Bob\u00a0Vylan\u2019s\u00a0gig in May at Alexandra Palace in north London, after advice from the CPS.<\/p>\n After their Glastonbury set, Bob\u00a0Vylan\u00a0had\u00a0multiple international shows<\/a>\u00a0cancelled, and\u00a0their US visas were revoked ahead of a tour in the country<\/a>. Two UK gigs, in Manchester and Leeds, have\u00a0also been postponed until next year<\/a>, \u201cdue to political pressure\u201d from MPs and Jewish leaders.<\/p>\n In\u00a0a previous\u00a0statement, Bob\u00a0Vylan\u00a0said they were\u00a0not calling for \u201cthe death of Jews or Arabs or any other race or group\u201d<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Glasto.\u00a0Bobby Vylan\u00a0further\u00a0explained in October that he was \u201cnot regretful\u201d of his remarks at Glastonbury<\/a>, adding: \u201cI\u2019d\u00a0do it again tomorrow, twice on Sundays.\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0not regretful of it at all.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier this month,\u00a0Bob Vylan sued RTE over its claims of \u201cAnti-Semitic chants\u201d during the Glastonbury set<\/a>.\u00a0They have also received an apology and were awarded substantial damages from\u00a0Manchester Evening News<\/i><\/a>, after the outlet published defamatory claims about a \u201cNazi salute\u201d occurring at one of their gigs.<\/p>\n The duo recently released their first new single since the controversy, \u2018Sick Sad World\u2019<\/a>, where they called out Prime Minister\u00a0Keir Starmer<\/a>\u00a0and \u201cthe BBC\u2019s\u00a0lies<\/i>\u201c.<\/p>\n The post Bob Vylan respond to police decision to drop investigation against them: \u201cWe hope this news inspires others to speak up\u201d<\/a> appeared first on NME<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bob\u00a0Vylan have responded to the news that police will take no further action into the chants during their\u00a0Glastonbury 2025\u00a0set. READ MORE:\u00a0Bob Vylan: \u201cWe\u2019ve been screaming about these topics at the top of our lungs for years. Why has it taken this long?\u201d Yesterday (December 23), Avon and Somerset Police confirmed that the chants \u2013\u00a0which included […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 14:46:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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