Jewish rights organisation CJO is taking court action to try to stop British punk rap duo Bob Vylan performing on stage in Nijmegen, 48 hours after controversy erupted over the group’s last show in Amsterdam.

Hugh Doornhof, lawyer for the Centraal Joods Overleg, told NRC that the organisation would seek an injunction in Arnhem to ban the concert at the Doornroosje venue on Monday evening.

Doornroosje said in a statement on its website that it had been “overwhelmed by the scale of outrage that has arisen in response to Bob Vylan’s show in Paradiso last Saturday”, but it was not prepared to engage in “cultural censorship”.

Another venue, 013 in Tilburg, cancelled Bob Vylan’s show on Tuesday after the duo chanted “death to the IDF” and referred to the right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk, who was shot dead in Utah last week, as a “piece of shit”.

Doornhof said other statements by Bob Vylan threatened the safety of the Jewish community. The band’s leader told the crowd: “F**k the Zionists. Get out there and fight them, get out there and meet them in the street.”

The band said in a response on Sunday: “We’re not anti-Semitic, we’re anti-Zionist.” But Doornhof told NRC: “Vylan’s statement makes society unsafe for the Jewish community, regardless of the wafer-thin dividing line between Jewish and Zionist.”