Kneecap - New Footage *Read OP for Mod Warning*

Give me an example of a remark of hatred towards the British PEOPLE by Kneecap. Any example at all.

And you must be aware of how popular they are on that island. 45,000 tickets sold in one day for their gig with the Fonts in Finsbury Park. Streams and sales hugely increasing soo a big platform to inform people about Gaza. As with the GLAN High Court action this week.Long past time to stop the genocide and child-murder. Never Again!!

Alongside the likes of English musicians such as Paul Weller, Massive Attack, Sleaford Mods, English Teacher, IDLES, Pulp, etc.

People who recognise that killing babies in Gaza ain't cool.

Shouting Up Hamas and Up Hezbollah is not protesting against genocide, it is encouragement or terrorism. Simple as that.

You said "they didn't protest against genocide"

That's a lie. They have repeatedly made their feelings abundantly clear on that front.

As for whether or not they support Hamas / Hezbollah, let's look at the evidence:

On the 1 hand you have a written statement from the band which reads

"Let us be unequivocal: we do not, and have never, supported Hamas or Hezbollah. We condemn all attacks on civilians, always. It is never okay. We also reject any suggestion that we would seek to incite violence against any MP or individual. Ever"

On the other hand you have a shouted slogan during a performance filmed on a phone in 2023.

Let's be honest here, it doesn't take a genius to see that anyone who chooses to attach importance to the latter and ignore the former has obvious ulterior motives.

Their statement quite literally could not be clearer.

Fortunately the quest to censor, cancel and silence them looks like it will fail.

Kneecap will spend the summer putting on spectacular shows to hundreds of thousands of people and spreading the word about the atrocities that are going on in Gaza.

They didn't protest against genocide

Quite the opposite.

What Kneecap deserve is universal praise for standing up and condemning attacks on innocent civilians when it would've been easier to just say nothing.

For some reason it seems to irk you that 3 rappers can reach out and get that message to thousands upon thousands of people. It's a good message. You should embrace it.

The "argument" you have against them involves someone from Rathfarnham?? You are either very confused or scrapping a metaphorical barrel. I haven't a scooby do what a bedroom in Rathfarnham has to do with atrocities in Gaza??

"they have gone so quiet"

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To think just 24 hours ago I was actually taking your posts seriously!!

Northside, Primavera, Glastonbury, Best kept secret, Eurockeenes, TRNSMT, Pukkelpop, Green Man, Rock en Seine, …

Now those names may not mean much to you but anyone with even a passing interest in music festivals will know that that's a MASSIVE summer schedule and I've haven't included many other massive events that they'll be playing this summer.

Face facts. Kneecap will be spreading their message of peace and opposition to genocide to hundreds of thousands of punters this year and no deflecting whinings about rathfarnham or newstalk or old mobile phone footage is going to stop them.

That statement is a desperate attempt to correct their failures and a pathetic apology.

It is a very strange world where a band can claim that in shouting Up Hamas and Up Hezbollah, they were not expressing support for them.

You've been spitting out the exact same word vomit for pages. You clearly have an agenda against a highly successful Irish band, you are pro-Israel (from your comments on this and other threads) and are just ignoring anything that doesn't match with your incorrect beliefs.

At least a broken clock is right twice a day, a broken record is just an annoyance.

It ain't racism nor an attack on a certain nationality. Your claims are thus demonstrably false.

You have not answered the questions. Do you think there can never ever be such a thing as anti-English Racism coming from Ireland, because we are all goody goody in Ireland. OR do you think an Irishman / band calling on their followers to kill MPs in England is ok because at least they did not call on their followers to kill MPs in Ireland? And English lives are worth less than Irish lives?

Can you link to when you have asked any of these questions before?

To answer.. WTAF.. I think there can never ever be such a thing as anti-englihsh racism coming from ireland because the english are not a race. The irish are not a race. I do not know how else to say it to you to get your head past listening to one sinn fein politician and repeating it.

Why did Kneecap call on their followers to murder politicians MPs in England but not MPs in N. Ireland?

Can you show me where they specifically did that? I am willing to bet anything that did not happen.

Do you not think Kneecap are similar to dissident Republicans in that they think it fun to be photographed on what appears to be a vandalised / damaged PSNI Land Rover, with smoke bellowing etc, and they said the PSNI were like the RUC, who they also denigrated?

No.

Do you not think it very hypocritical of S.F. to complain of something relatively minor, anti-Irish racial discrimination (it was not life or death) but not to complain of anti-English racial discrimination (well, Kneecap called for the murder of MPs in England, but not Irish MPs) from Kneecap (many MPs have been attacked, intimidated and some murdered)?

No.

The only examples of racism i have seen written about on these pages is from the zionists in israel. Killing babies by the thousands, killing innocent people and trying somehow to justify any of it. That is unbelievable, and anyone who condones it is equally complicit imho.

and jimmy saville should be praised for charity work I guess?

It is entirely possible to accept that Israel is committing genocide, agree with what Kneecap are saying, but also condemn them for crossing a line, which they clearly did.

The people putting firebombs outside the PMs front door, or making death threats to female Labour MP aren’t master race right wing loonies, they are pro Palestine left wing loonies. The last thing the uk needs right now is a pop band wading in and effectively supporting their actions.

people are institutions. People are culture, norms, etc..

Dragging something up from almost 40 years ago, where the guy incorrectly used the term racist (racist approach) as your only example is not really making any point. Just because one person uses the term incorrectly almost 40 years ago, and a few others copy them does not make it correct.

That aside - if the point that the other poster is trying to make is that kneecap are xenophobic, i would ask them to prove that point. I do not see any examples of that.

I see we have got into the hair splitting of what is racism and what is not again, all in an effort to play down one nationalities negative attitude to another nationality.

I am splitting no hairs. I have addressed what racism is, and i have said who i believe are the racist people at the end of my post that you quoted. It would seem that it suits you to ignore that and incorrectly use a term to double down on another posters posts, which has not been proven even when the correct terminology is being used. All in an effort to ignore the war crimes and genocide that israel is committing to children and innocent people.

When anyone on this thread mentions racism, that is what they should be looking at. Nothing else. Technically it should also be anti-semitic, but as the israeli's are claiming ownership of that word as one group of semitic people that exist, racism will have to suffice.