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UK police investigate Bob Vylan, Kneecap's Glastonbury performances
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UK police have launched a criminal investigation into performances by Kneecap and Bob Vylan at the Glastonbury festival last weekend after the musicians used their performances to deliver a powerful message against the genocide in Gaza.
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UK police have launched a criminal investigation into performances by NICAP and Bob Vilen at
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the Glastonbury Festival last weekend, after the musicians used their performances to deliver
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a powerful message against the genocide in Gaza.
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This next song, we want to dedicate it to every single band that is using their platform
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to speak up for the Palestinian people and speak against the crimes that Israel, the UK and
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the US and much of the Western world are complicit in.
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So this is for all of you, this is for murder capital, this is for NICAP, this is for Ammo
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and the Sniffers, every single band out there using their platform to speak up for the Palestinian
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people, because we must pray, hope and wish to see a day where the Palestinian people
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are liberated and free from the tyranny of the Israeli government.
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Punk rap group Bob Vilen also led crowds in chants of death to the IDF, the initials of the Israeli
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military, while Irish rap trio NICAP led the crowd with chants of free Palestine and Fkir
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Starmer.
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The festival's organizers said Bob Vilen's comments had very much crossed a line.
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I'll tell you what crosses a line, killing children, killing women, killing civilians
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when they're queuing up for aid.
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Death, death to the IDF is an expression of disgust and rage and one of the things that I really
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take issue with at the moment is that the language which is being used to express that human horror
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at the genocide is being given more scrutiny than the actual actions of the IDF themselves.
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The British police are investigating both groups for public order offenses.
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The British police are investigating both groups for public order offenses.
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The British police are investigating both the Pharisees of the United Nations.
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The British police are investigating both women's
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