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Bob Vylan — not to be confused with the pro-Israel Bob Dylan (listen, for proof, to “Neighborhood Bully”) — showed up and strutted his tattooed stuff on a stage at the Glastonbury Festival, the largest music festival in that rapidly Islamizing, and idiotizing, country we still allow ourselves to call Great Britain. It has become de rigueur for such people as Bob Vylan, which is actually a duo made up of Pascal Robinson-Foster and another fellow, both of whom call themselves Bob Vylan, to declare their heartfelt support for a “free Palestine,” though it is doubtful that they could even locate that “free Palestine” on a map of their imagining. What would really have caused a stir, really have made people stop and think, would be if Robinson-Foster, a/k/a Bob Vylan — whose stage name is a deliberate homophone of “villain” — had come out in support of the embattled Jewish state, now fighting a seven-front war in order to ensure its very survival. No, it was not to happen. That would require swimming-against-the-tide, that would require bravery.
Instead, as he pranced onto the stage in topless pseudo-Jaggerish fashion, Bob Vylan screamed “free Palestine, free Palestine” to a raucous, sickeningly cheering crowd. That chant, for those who may still not know, is a call for Israel to disappear and to be replaced by a 23rd Arab state. But then Robinson-Foster, excited by his own daring in saying what at this point is utterly banal, and wanting to really distinguish himself in the international Hate-Israel competition, went further, shouting “Death to the IDF, Death to the IDF.” More cheers from the crowd of cretins at this call for murdering Israelis, who apparently deserve death because they have been defending, so bravely, their tiny state. However, that was not the end of the story of Bob Vylan. Now this creature has had his future income sharply reduced, for the American government has revoked his visa and that of the other Vylanous member of his two-man band, thereby preventing his entry into the country. That must enrage them. How dare the Americans hit him in the most important part of his anatomy, his wallet?
More on the egregious Bob Vylan and his comeuppance can be found here: “Bob Vylan’s Israeli military chant prompts US visa cancellation and UK criminal probe,” by and , CNN, June 30, 2025:
Members of the British rap punk duo Bob Vylan had their visas revoked by the United States and are under investigation by local police after leading a crowd to chant “death” to Israel’s military at a UK music festival this past weekend.
On Monday, US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said that the State Department “has revoked the US visas for the members of the Bob Vylan band in light of their hateful tirade at Glastonbury, including leading the crowd in death chants.”
He added on X that “foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country.”
The Qur’an, sad to say, glorifies “violence toward and hatred of” non-Muslims, who are described as the “most vile of created beings.” Does that mean that Muslims who take the Qur’an to heart should “not be welcome as visitors, much less as permanent residents, to our country? Just a thought.
The group was slated to go on a US tour beginning in late October, according to a post on Instagram….
That scheduled tour in the US will now not take place. No more sell-out crowds, or crowds of any kind, in the US for shooting-themselves-in-the-foot Bob Vylan. How much money, do you think, has Bob Vylan just been deprived of by their own display of casually homicidal antisemitism?
In a Sunday Instagram post captioned “I said what I said,” Bobby Vylan said he had received “messages of both support and hatred” following the performance.
“Teaching our children to speak up for the change they want and need is the only way that we make this world a better place,” the post read. “As we grow older and our fire possibly starts to dim under the suffocation of adult life and all its responsibilities, it is incredibly important that we inspire future generations to pick up the torch that was passed to us.”
What a ludicrous view Bobby Vylan has of himself, this twerp with tattoos and a blue guitar that does not play things as they are. He claims he will “inspire future generations to pick up the torch that was passed to us.” What’s that torch, again? Oh yes, it consists of screaming a few homicidal words about young men and women in Israel defending their country from those who would destroy it. And having done that, Bobby tells us, he is ready to pass the torch to a new generation of moral idiots so that they can scream, in their turn, similar sentiments. My god, Bob, how do you manage to be so brave?
Bob Vylan’s chants at the festival have also prompted outcry among top British officials, and British police are reviewing video footage of their set. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that “there is no excuse for this kind of appalling hate speech.”…
If there is, Prime Minister Starmer, “no excuse for this kind of appalling hate speech,” then why don’t you follow the American lead and ban Bob Vylan from appearing in public in the UK? If Vylan had yelled “death to Muslims” or “death to the blacks,” wouldn’t he have been pulled off the stage and banned from further appearances? Of course he would. So why shouldn’t the same be done here?
Why, just after Bobby Vylan made his comments, did the BBC continue to stream his performance? Hadn’t those words been enough for the BBC at that point to stop filming him, stop providing him with a vast television audience? Yes, the BBC will not make his performance available on demand, but that does not excuse the network’s original failure.
On Monday, the BBC admitted that “with hindsight” Vylan’s performance should have been pulled from air during the performance, saying that the corporation “respects freedom of expression but stands firmly against incitement to violence.”
“The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable and have no place on our airwaves,” it added.
You know, BBC, I don’t think you think that. I think many people at the BBC — editors, reporters, producers — have a deep anti-Israel animus that has been expressed over many decades, and that frequently grades into ill-concealed antisemitism.
Bob Vylan’s music incorporates a variety of genres with lyrics that often confront social issues such as racism, sexism, and economic inequality.
They’re against “racism, sexism, and economic inequality.” Who isn’t? With a platform like that, they’ll go far. If Sadiq Khan can become mayor of London, and Zohran Mamdani could become the next mayor of New York, Pascal Robinson-Foster/Bobby Vylan should give serious thought to standing for Parliament from the Muslim anti-Israel stronghold of Tower Hamlets.
After Bob Vylan, there were more anti-Israel antics to come.
As for the Irish Kneecap rappers who followed Bob Vylan on the Glastonbury stage, they need to be investigated, too. One of their number, Mo Chara, has been charged with an offense for displaying the flag of Hezbollah, a proscribed terrorist group, at one of his London performances last year. That should be enough to ensure that Kneecap, like Bob Vylan, will be banned from the United States.
All in all, things are looking grim for Bob Vylan and Kneecap. Their costly comeuppances will put a smile on the face, and a spring in the step of a great many people. Including you. Including me.