Bobby Vylan isn’t blurring his words. The rapper from the band Bob Vylan, who made international headlines with his “Death to the IDF” chant at Glastonbury this summer, told The Louis Theroux Podcast that Damon Albarn’s criticism of the chant was “disgusting.” Blur’s Albarn told the Times of London that the chant was “one of the most spectacular misfires I’ve seen in my life. Especially when he started to goose-step in tennis gear.”

While Theroux tried to couch Albarn’s statement as “hyperbolic,” Vylan refused in the October 21 episode, recorded on October 1, prior to the October 10 ceasefire. “Categorizing it as a ‘spectacular misfire’ implies that somehow the politics of the band or our stance on Palestinian liberation is not thought out,” he responded. “And as a more se

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