Members of British punk-rap duo Bob Vylan have filed defamation proceedings against national broadcaster RT\u00c9.<\/p>\n
The group, which performed at Dublin\u2019s Vicar Street last month, allege that RT\u00c9 engaged in defamation by saying the lead singer led antisemitic chants during a Glastonbury performance.<\/p>\n
The band gained significant attention when frontman Pascal Robinson-Foster led a chant of \u201cdeath, death to the IDF\u201d during a BBC livestreamed performance at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset in June.<\/p>\n
Records in the High Court show documents were filed by Phoenix Law on behalf of Robinson-Foster and drummer Wade Laurence George on Monday.<\/p>\n
The firm said: \u201cThe proceedings arise from a broadcast aired by RT\u00c9 News following Bob Vylan\u2019s performance at Glastonbury Festival on June 28th 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring this broadcast, comments were made alleging that the lead singer of Bob Vylan led antisemitic chants. These allegations are categorically denied by our clients and are entirely untrue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Phoenix Law said Bob Vylan had made statements expressing support for Palestinian self-determination and criticising military actions by the IDF (Israel Defence Forces).<\/p>\n
It said the comments did not target Jewish people or express hatred towards any group.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe comments made were politically charged but not antisemitic in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n
Solicitor Darragh Mackin said: \u201cOur clients are no stranger to utilising their freedom of expression to speak out against the genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is however a fundamental distinction between speaking critically about the role of the Israeli state forces, and being antisemitic.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe former is speech within the confines of political expression, whereas the latter is a form of hatred directed towards Jewish people.\u201d<\/p>\n
RT\u00c9 said it does not comment on legal proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of British punk-rap duo Bob Vylan have filed defamation proceedings against national broadcaster RT\u00c9. The group, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-184138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}