Protesters threaten to riot over Bob Vylan Amsterdam concert
The British punk duo were accused of anti-Semitism after leading chants of 'death to the IDF' and 'free free Palestine' at this year's Glastonbury music festival.
Two masked men held up a banner outside Amsterdam's Paradiso venue that read 'If Bob Vylan plays that night/ Amsterdam will stand and fight.'
Since Glastonbury, Bob Vylan appearances at several festivals have been cancelled, including in the UK, France and Germany.
Venue 'will not yield' to pressure
Paradiso has vowed that the September 12 concert, which is being headlined by Ukrainian-American 'gypsy punk' carousers Gogol Bordello, will go ahead.
Paradiso director Geert van Itallie told 3voor12 that it's 'very unfortunate that pressure is being put on our freedom of programming'.
He added that the venue, which has reported the matter to the police, 'will not yield to such practices'.
Paradiso is taking the threat seriously and will be taking extra precautions.
Bob Vylan's Glastonbury appearance sparked anger and controversy in Britain and prompted a criminal investigation into the chanting, which Sir Keir Starmer called 'appalling'
The BBC apologised for not pulling the livestream of the performance, which is no longer available on the iPlayer platform.
Bob Vylan issued a statement in early July after several of the band's bookings were cancelled, including a headline slot at Manchester's Radar festival.
The duo said: 'Silence is not an option. We will be fine, the people of Palestine are hurting.'
A co-founder of the Radar festival later revealed she had received death threats after cancelling the duo.
This week, during their first UK concert since Glastonbury, the band's frontman asked fans to stop chanting against the Israeli military.
Pascal Robinson-Foster, 34, told fans that they could get him into 'trouble' after they began chanting 'death, death to the IDF' at a London surprise gig on Wednesday night.
It is not clear who is responsible for the banner in Amsterdam – a city which had a large Jewish community until Nazi occupation and the Holocaust.
In November 2024, there were anti-Israeli riots in Amsterdam. Fans of Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv were targeted in what was called a 'jew hunt' during the disorder.
Geert Wilders, the hard-Right politician who won the last general election in the Netherlands, is a staunch supporter of Israel and its war on Hamas in Gaza.
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