The government has “strongly condemned” chants at Glastonbury Festival from rap punk duo Bob Vylan calling for “death” to the Israeli military and broadcast live on the BBC.

Rapper Bobby Vylan led chants of “free, free Palestine” and “death, death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]” during their set, which came just before Belfast rap trio Kneecap.

A BBC spokesperson said some of the comments were “deeply offensive”, adding it had issued a warning on screen about “very strong and discriminatory language”. The set will not be available to rewatch on BBC iPlayer.

Police said they were reviewing videos of comments made by Bob Vylan and Kneecap to decide whether any offences had been committed.

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    7 hours ago

    I agree. But we also need to look at the lies they are told and how pervasive those lies are recruiters are basically child groomers. Very few people join because they think they are going to get to kill civilians.

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      7 hours ago

      Again plenty and plenty of idf soldiers are filming themselves enjoying and being proud of their crimes you can’t claim that they didn’t know what they are doing. IDF is pure pure pure evil a lot worse than Hamas

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        6 hours ago

        The people filming it would be the absolute worst of them or maybe the IDF only uses the most absolute sociopaths for their combat roles. The dude cleaning floors or whatever to avoid going to prison should not be held in the same regard as the dude executing children.

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          6 hours ago

          Common you know that death to idf means idf soldiers deserve to be killed in gaza . Palestinians has the right to self defence in gaza and the west bank. Do you really believe that the artist or anybody here is justifying killing someone cleansing floor for the idf?