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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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00:00UK police have launched a criminal investigation into performances by NICAP and Bob Vilen at
00:08the Glastonbury Festival last weekend, after the musicians used their performances to deliver
00:13a powerful message against the genocide in Gaza.
00:16This next song, we want to dedicate it to every single band that is using their platform
00:22to speak up for the Palestinian people and speak against the crimes that Israel, the UK and
00:30the US and much of the Western world are complicit in.
00:36So this is for all of you, this is for murder capital, this is for NICAP, this is for Ammo
00:43and the Sniffers, every single band out there using their platform to speak up for the Palestinian
00:49people, because we must pray, hope and wish to see a day where the Palestinian people
00:57are liberated and free from the tyranny of the Israeli government.
01:05Punk rap group Bob Vilen also led crowds in chants of death to the IDF, the initials of the Israeli
01:11military, while Irish rap trio NICAP led the crowd with chants of free Palestine and Fkir
01:17Starmer.
01:18The festival's organizers said Bob Vilen's comments had very much crossed a line.
01:30I'll tell you what crosses a line, killing children, killing women, killing civilians
01:34when they're queuing up for aid.
01:36Death, death to the IDF is an expression of disgust and rage and one of the things that I really
01:42take issue with at the moment is that the language which is being used to express that human horror
01:48at the genocide is being given more scrutiny than the actual actions of the IDF themselves.
01:54The British police are investigating both groups for public order offenses.
01:58The British police are investigating both groups for public order offenses.
02:01The British police are investigating both the Pharisees of the United Nations.
02:03The British police are investigating both women's

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