British punk duo Bob Vylan have been dropped as clients by United Talent Agency (UTA) following their performance at Glastonbury Festival, where vocalist Bobby Vylan chanted “death to the IDF (Israel Defence Forces)”. 

The chant was misreported in the Daily Mail as “death to Israelis”. Both Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Glastonbury Festival condemned the remarks. 

In an Instagram post, Bobby Vylan related a story about his daughter filling in a survey about her school dinners. “Today it is a change in school dinners, tomorrow it is a change in foreign policy,” he wrote.

UTA, which is based in Beverly Hills, California, also dropped actor Susan Sarandon after she spoke at a pro-Palestine rally in November 2023. 

Weeks earlier, the agency’s vice chairman branded a letter seeking to defend pro-Palestine students as “rife with falsehoods about Israel”, adding that it sought to “defend the horrific savagery of the Hamas massacre”.