The State Department Yanks Visa for the British group which called for “Death to the FDI”

The State Department revoked the visas for the members of the Bob Vylan Band, after the British duo Punk-Rap called to “Death to the IDF” during a performance on Saturday at the Glastonbury Music Festival in England.

The Bob Vylan group, made up of two musicians with the stage names Bobby Vylan and Bobbie Vylan, is expected to tour in the United States later in 2025. But the State Department announced on Monday that it had drawn visas for the members of the group after the group led songs for the end of the Defense forces of Israel.

“Bob Vylan’s visas have been dismissed,” a head of the State Department official told Fox News. “The Secretary of State has been clear – the United States will not take visas for terrorist sympathizers.”

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Bob Vylan performing on the West Holts stage at the Glastonbury Festival in Worthy Farm in Somerset, June 28, 2025. (Images yui mok / pa via getty images)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio previously issued multiple warnings according to which the State Department will cancel the visas for “terrorists” and people affiliated to them.

For example, Rubio declared in June 2 of June 2 after the anti-Semitic terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado, that all the “terrorists, family members and terrorist sympathizers” in the United States on a visa would have their visa revoked and cope with the deportation.

During the performance of Glastonbury, England, Bobby Vylan also led the crowd with songs of “free, free and free Palestine”, and wrapped the song by saying: “Hell yeah, from the river to the sea. Palestine must be, will be free, it will be free”.

In response, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that “there is no excuse for this kind of terrible hate speech”, according to the BBC.

Meanwhile, Bobby Vylan seemed to double his statements during the performance of Glastonbury, and wrote Sunday in an article on social networks: “I said what I said.”

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Bobby Vylan by Bob Vylan Crowdsurfs in front of the West Holts scene during the fourth day of the Glastonbury 2025 festival on June 28, 2025, in Glastonbury, England. (Images Leon Neal / Getty)

“It is incredibly important that we encourage and inspire future generations to take the torch that has been transmitted to us,” said Bobby Vylan in a Sunday Instagram post. “Let us display it strongly and obviously the right thing to do when we want and we need to change. Let them see us walking in the streets, campaign in the ground level, organize online and cry about this at each stage that is offered to us.”

In addition, the BBC published a press release on Monday for continuing to disseminate the performance of Bob Vylan live and condemned anti -Semitic songs during the performance.

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In the context of a Palestinian flag, Bobby Vylan of the British duo Bob Vylan occurs on the West Holts stage on the fourth day of the Glastonbury Festival on June 28, 2025. (Oli Scarff / AFP via Getty Images)

“The team was dealing with a live situation, but with hindsight, we should have drawn the flow during the performance. We regret that this did not happen,” the BBC said in a statement on Monday. “The BBC respects freedom of expression, but is firmly standing against incentive to violence. The anti -Semitic feelings expressed by Bob Vylan were completely unacceptable and have no room on our waves.”