LONDON — UK police announced Monday that the weekend performances by rap punk duo Bob Vylan and Irish-language band Kneecap at the Glastonbury Festival are subject to a criminal investigation, after they led crowds in chants calling for “death” to the Israeli military and chants of “Free Palestine.”

Police said the performances at the UK’s largest summer music festival “have been recorded as a public order incident.”

Meanwhile, the US State Department said it has revoked the US visas for Bob Vylan after their “hateful tirade at Glastonbury.”

The rap duo’s lead vocalist, known by the alias Bobby Vylan — who until the weekend was relatively little known — led crowds in chants of “Free, free Palestine” and “Death, death to the IDF” — the Israel Defense Forces.

The BBC said it regretted livestreaming the performance. “The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable and have no place on our airwaves,” it said, adding that it “respects freedom of expression but stands firmly against incitement to violence.”

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and UK politicians condemned the chants, saying there was no excuse for such “appalling hate speech.”

“Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred........

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