British Airways (BA) has paused its sponsorship of The Louis Theroux Podcast following an interview with Bob Vylan’s frontman.
Pascal Robinson-Foster, one half of the controversial punk duo, told Theroux in an episode which aired earlier this week that he was “not regretful” of chanting “death, death to the IDF [Israel Defence Forces]” at this year’s Glastonbury.
He added that he would “do it again tomorrow, twice on Sundays”.
British Airways said on Saturday that the content “breaches” its sponsorship policy and has since paused its advertising on the podcast, the Jewish News first reported.
Oh he did a pro IDF chant? Weird.
Ok… they might want to clean that statement up then
Technically speaking it could refer to the death of the organization itself rather than the individuals comprising the organization.
But yeah.
What I’m trying to say is that the statement could initially be interpreted as pro IDF, when in fact, it is against the IDF. They were writing unclearly
I’m not clicking the link because a) ew, sky news b) I’ve read the story elsewhere (even watched the interview). But the part you’ve quoted is neutral. Just because you interpreted it as pro IDF doesn’t mean it was written that way.