{"id":223670,"date":"2025-12-09T12:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/223670\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:41:07","slug":"bob-vylan-issue-defamation-proceedings-against-rte-over-glastonbury-controversy-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/223670\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Vylan issue defamation proceedings against RT\u00c9 over Glastonbury controversy \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The punk-rap group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/bob-vylan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/bob-vylan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Vylan<\/a> have issued defamation proceedings against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/rte\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/rte\/\" target=\"_blank\">RT\u00c9<\/a> over its reporting of the duo\u2019s performance at the Glastonbury music festival this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bob Vylan courted controversy this summer when, during a performance at Glastonbury, they led chants of \u201cdeath, death to the IDF\u201d, a reference to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/israel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Israel Defense Forces<\/a> and the war in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/gaza-strip\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/gaza-strip\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Band members Pascal Robinson-Foster and Wade Laurence George allege that an RT\u00c9 report on the performance stated that the lead singer of band led \u201canti-Semitic chants\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They say the reporting is categorically untrue, and are now seeking damages to compensate for injury to their reputation they say arises from the reporting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Belfast legal firm Phoenix Law, which is  representing both men, on Monday filed two sets of defamation proceedings at the High Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a statement, the firm said: \u201cOur clients are no stranger to utilising their freedom of expression to speak out against the genocide in Gaza. There is however a fundamental distinction between speaking critically about the role of the Israeli state forces, and being anti-Semitic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe former is speech within the confines of political expression, whereas the latter is a form of hatred directed towards Jewish people,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAt no stage have our clients ever engaged in conduct that is remotely anti-Semitic and to that end, have had no option but to seek the formal correction of same via the remedies available within this litigation,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">RT\u00c9 has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The punk-rap group Bob Vylan have issued defamation proceedings against RT\u00c9 over its reporting of the duo\u2019s performance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,120374,6,11,12,15,16,5,27515,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-223670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-glastonbury-festival-2025","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-pa2025","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news","24":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115689664221311680","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}