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Dame Louise Ellman, former Labour MP and vice-chair of the Jewish Leadership Council, said the scenes were 'extremely chilling' and 'very frightening'.
'It's very frightening to see a performer whipping up a crowd with hate speech and specifically with anti-Semitism and hatred towards Jewish people on the public platform and particularly at a time when anti-Semitism is rising,' she said.
'It can't be possible and it can't be acceptable for performers at a major festival like this and the organisers to escape the laws of the land which are against incitement and incitement to hatred and that is simply what this is.
'Responsibility is across a number of people and primarily of course the performer who did all these things but the organisers of the festival too and the BBC as the national broadcaster.
'It is extremely chilling and very frightening and it can't go unattended to.'
Former BBC executive and presenter Roger Bolton has told Times Radio that the BBC 'should have cut away' from the Glastonbury performance by Bob Vylan and 'cancelled the broadcast'.
'It's something the BBC should not have allowed to have happened,' he added.
