Overview
- High Court records show Phoenix Law filed the defamation claim on behalf of singer Pascal Robinson-Foster and drummer Wade Laurence George.
- The suit says an RTÉ News broadcast alleged the frontman led antisemitic chants, a claim the band calls entirely untrue.
- RTÉ has declined to comment on the proceedings.
- The dispute stems from the BBC-livestreamed Glastonbury set where the singer chanted “death, death to the IDF,” after which the BBC apologized and partially upheld complaints over its coverage.
- Related fallout included police inquiries in Somerset and London, a decision by the Met to take no further action over a separate London show, and professional consequences such as revoked US visas and canceled bookings, while Manchester Evening News later apologized and paid damages over an unrelated false claim.