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Who are Bob Vylan? The British punks who had their US visas revoked for anti-IDF chants
The group’s ‘death to the IDF’ chant at Glastonbury ignited a firestorm – and prompted action from the US state department
In March, members of British punk rock band UK Subs were denied entry into the US, which their bassist Alvin Gibbs said he suspected was due in part to their vocal and frequent opposition to Trump. Also in March, Canadian artist Bells Larsen, who is trans, had to cancel a US tour after receiving legal advice that because US Citizenship and Immigration Services now only recognizes two “biological sexes – male and female” he would not be able to travel. They said: “The British media in a frenzy about Bob Vylan and Kneecap, but artists all weekend at Glastonbury, from pop to rock to rap to punk to DJs, spoke up on stage, and there were tons of flags on every streamed set.
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