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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

British police drop case against Bob Vylan for ‘Death to the IDF’ chant, sparking outrage from Jewish groups 

British police ended an investigation into the British punk band Bob Vylan, months after the rap duo led thousands of Glastonbury music festival attendees in chants of "Death, death to the IDF."

"We have concluded, after reviewing all the evidence, that it does not meet the criminal threshold outlined by the CPS for any person to be prosecuted," wrote Avon and Somerset Police in a statement Tuesday. "No further action will be taken on the basis there is insufficient evidence for there to be a realistic prospect of conviction."

Following the rap duo's incendiary chant at Glastonbury, the pair were condemned Jewish leaders in the United Kingdom, and had their U.S. visas revoked by the State Department. In October, one of the band's members, Bobby Vylan, doubled down on the anti-Israel chant in an interview with documentarian Louis Theroux.

"Simply because there is a high threshold for criminal conviction should in no way minimise the concerns raised by many sectors of society around the nature of the comments made," the police statement continued.

https://www.jta.org/2025/12/24/culture/british-police-drop-case-against-bob-vylan-for-death-to-the-idf-chant-sparking-outrage-from-jewish-groups

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