Kneecap - New Footage *Read OP for Mod Warning*

This is actually great for the careers of kneecap. They really aren't very good musicians, I like them because they really wind up a certain section of Irish people.

The British government have been supplying weapons to Israel to mutilate and slaughter men, women and children in Gaza and have provided political cover for genocide but a fella waving a flag is guilty of terrorist offences. Vile hypocrisy but what do you expect from a pig but a grunt

Section 13 offence, maximum of 6mts and/or a fine up to £5000.

If he’s a paid up member of Hamas. That up to 14yrs in Jail.

this will be thrown out. what a load of nonsense.

I'm pretty sure nobody believes he's a member of Hamas... Secondly, this is absolutely gonna backfire on the Brits.

Googling it, I can't find a single case of a person having been jailed in the UK for merely waving a flag in public. It would be a different story if a protestor or agitator showed up a Holocaust memorial or something with the express intention of disrupting the event or causing deep offence to the people present, but the idea that someone could be sent to jail for merely waving a flag in public for a few seconds where nobody who witnessed it was even offended seems utterly bonkers.

Shouting support for Hamas is not supporting the Palestinian people.

At the end of the day the UK locks people up for mean social media posts. See: Southport riot social media post arrests.

So they need to be consistent. I can bet the Left Wing people will suddenly turn into free speech advocates now.

Will never understand the love for Hezbollah given the countless number of Syrians who will tell you about their collusion with Assad. Goes to show how powerful some Palestinian voices are versus Syrians.

Find it mad that on this site, an Irish site, the kneecap thread went 1k posts in a few weeks with reams of waffle by people offended by a republican music act opposing genocide.

And it appears it will continue here.

Lots of people cheered when the UK locked up people for tweets that incited violence in the riots last summer. When they locked up scumbags inciting the death of others.

I have zero sympathy for these idiots who decided they should be allowed to do the same without reproach.

No one is offended at them criticizing Israel, people just pointing out that if you shout support of Hamas you are at best a complete and utter clown and at worst a psycho. No need to re-frame things.

"must bend over and spread cheeks for Israel"

A pop group in Germany has been stopped from performing because they had the flag of Palestine on display . Sometimes anti terror laws can be used to limit free speech

They can tone it down, get a slap on the wrist, and break out the Hamas flag next time they need to get into the news. The trick would be to keep it to fines and not do time. A £500 fine is nothing but a cost of doing business and is well worth the publicity.