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BBC chief left IDF death chants on livestream

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01.07.2025

Well, well, well. The chants of Bob Vylan frontman at Glastonbury – ‘death, death to the IDF’ – sparked outrage at the weekend and it wasn’t long before questions were asked of the BBC, which streamed the performance to viewers at home. Now it transpires that the Beeb’s director general Tim Davie was made aware of the controversial chants after the public service broadcaster had shown them live on Saturday – and while Davie ordered the performance to be made unavailable to viewers on demand, the original livestream remained on iPlayer for five hours.

A BBC spokesperson has now lamented the decision not to pull the livestream, noting that:

Tim was there for a few........

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