Sinn Féin hosts anti-Israel band Bob Vylan despite police probe into ‘death to IDF’ concert

"It’s very nice to be able to invite people in and say welcome to Ireland,” he said.

The band, he said, had taken a “very strong stand” against the “genocide” in Gaza, adding: “That comes with challenges, and I think it’s important that they hear from people like us that what they do is really important, that it has a resonance.

"They are a band who are obviously very vocal on a range of issues, not just Palestine and Gaza, but anti-racism, anti-fascism, austerity, social justice.

"The environment in England at the moment is obviously a very negative one in many respects, so they were reflecting a little bit on that and the challenges, I suppose, of being in politically engaged positions.”

However, the band has been the subject of significant criticism after shooting to international prominence earlier this year, when Robinson-Foster openly called for “death to the IDF” during their set at Glastonbury.

Comments made during that set are currently the subject of a criminal investigation, with Avon and Somerset Police “seeking early legal advice from the Crown Prosecution Service” on the matter.

The outrage was further fuelled by Robinson-Foster’s recent appearance on Louis Theroux’s podcast, in which he suggested that “white supremacy is displayed so vividly in Zionism”.

And, pressed by Theroux on an increase in antisemitic incidents following the Glastonbury set, he said: “What are they counting as antisemitic incidents?

"Because I didn't see what they were counting as antisemitic incidents when I read it in The Guardian either. I wonder how you would find that out because in the reporting, no one seemed to press on that quite key detail. What are we claiming is antisemitic?

"I don't think I have created an unsafe atmosphere for the Jewish community. If there were large numbers of people going out and going like ‘Bob Vylan made me do this’, I might go ‘oof, I've had a negative impact here’.

"Again, in that report, what definition are they going by? We don’t know that, so it’s kind of hard to add anything to that.”