Article 6YANW BBC response to Bob Vylan’s IDF chants at Glastonbury ‘not good enough’, says minister

BBC response to Bob Vylan’s IDF chants at Glastonbury ‘not good enough’, says minister

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On-screen warnings issued by the BBC about discriminatory language during Bob Vylan's Glastonbury set were not good enough", a minister has said.

The BBC is facing questions after the musician Bobby Vylan - of the punk-rap duo Bob Vylan - led crowds at the festival's West Holts stage in chants of Free, free Palestine" and Death, death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]" on Saturday.

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