'Very concerned' Ofcom says BBC has 'questions to answer' after streaming anti-IDF chants at Glastonbury

The BBC has questions to reply implicit the unrecorded streaming of Bob Vylan's acceptable successful which a set subordinate shouted "death to the IDF", according to a media watchdog.

Ofcom it was "very concerned" astir the stream, which showed rapper Bobby Vylan pb crowds astatine the festival's West Holts Stage successful chants of: "Free, escaped Palestine" and: "Death, decease to the IDF (Israel Defence Forces)" connected Saturday.

An Ofcom spokesperson said connected Monday: "We are precise acrophobic astir the unrecorded watercourse of this performance, and the BBC intelligibly has questions to answer.

"We person been speaking to the BBC implicit the play and we are obtaining further accusation arsenic a substance of urgency, including what procedures were successful spot to guarantee compliance with its ain editorial guidelines."

Video showed immoderate of the assemblage joining successful with the chant, portion the radical performed successful beforehand of a surface that claimed Israel's actions successful Gaza magnitude to "genocide".

The latest improvement follows terrible condemnation from the premier curate connected Sunday.

Sir Keir Starmer said determination was "no excuse" for "this benignant of appalling hatred speech".

He besides referenced a erstwhile connection that Belfast rap radical Kneecap should person been removed from the line-up aft 1 subordinate was charged with a coercion offence.

"I said that Kneecap should not beryllium fixed a level and that goes for immoderate different performers making threats oregon inciting violence," helium said.

"The BBC needs to explicate however these scenes came to beryllium broadcast."

Festival organiser Emily Eavis said Bob Vylan had "very overmuch crossed a line".

She added: "Their chants precise overmuch crossed a enactment and we are urgently reminding everyone progressive successful the accumulation of the festival that determination is nary spot astatine Glastonbury for antisemitism, hatred code oregon incitement to violence."

The Israeli embassy said it was "deeply disturbed by the inflammatory and hateful rhetoric", adding that the slogan chanted "advocates for the dismantling of the State of Israel".

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