Following their festival set, Bob Vylan were banned from the US ahead of a 20-city tour through the country after the State Department revoked the group’s visa, saying foreigners “who glorify violence and hatred” were not welcome.
They were also axed from a European tour, a music festival in Manchester and faced a police investigation.
Vylan explained that the backlash to their chant was “minimal compared to what people in Palestine are going through” and celebrated the ensuing discourse giving a “platform to certain people… like Owen Jones”.
Jones, a Left-wing commentator and Guardian columnist, last month claimed he was thrown out of the Labour Party conference after criticising the party’s record on Gaza.
Vylan branded the response to his Glastonbury set as “disproportionate” and denied reports that his performance contributed to a spike in anti-Semitic incidents.
The day after Vylan’s Glastonbury set, the highest daily total of anti-Semitic incidents in the first half of this year was recorded, the Community Security Trust – a UK charity that works to protect Jews from anti-Semitism – previously revealed.
