British Airways pauses Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview
LONDON: Louis Theroux’s podcast has had its sponsorship by British Airways paused after the documentary maker interviewed a member of the band Bob Vylan.
During the interview, frontman Bobby Vylan said he does not regret prompting criticism earlier this year when he led an audience in a chant of “death, death to the IDF (Israel Defense Forces)” at Glastonbury music festival.
“I’m not regretful of it. I’d do it again tomorrow, twice on Sundays. I’m not regretful of it at all, like the subsequent backlash that I’ve faced. It’s minimal,” Vylan said in the podcast, released on Oct. 1.
“It’s minimal compared to what people in Palestine are going through … What’s there to regret? Oh, because I’ve upset some right-wing politician or some right-wing media?”
