Kneecap Denies Supporting Hamas or Hezbollah

Irish Rap Trio Kneecap Posted A Lengthy Statement Online Mondey After Their Messages Critiquing Israel at Coachella Ignited Controversy Earlier This Month.

“They want you to believe words are more harmful Than genocide,” Began the group's statement shared on social media. “Let us be unaquivocal: we do not, and have never, support Hamas or Hezbollah. We condemn all attack on civilians, alowys. It is never okay. We know more more this, given our nation's history.”

While Critics have accused Kneecap of Making Statements in the Past Supporting The Violent Actions of Hamas and Hezbollah, The Group Denied This, Alleging This Reports to this effect The Result of “Establishment Figures” Who “Combed Through Hundreds of Hours of Food and Interviews, Extracting a Handful of Words from Months or Years Aug to Manufacture Moral Hysteria ”in An Attamp to Silence the Rap Group. In the UK, The Trio Has Also Been Accused of Incinging Violence Against Members of Parliament; they denied this as well, and addressed the families of Two Murdered Mps, Writing, “We Send Our Heartfelt Apologies, We Never intended to Cause you Hurt.”

Kneecap are from Belfast, in The North of Ireland, Where Secarian Violence Claimed Many Lives Before The 1998 Good Friday Agreement. In Their Statement Monday, The British Government of Continuing “To Supply Arms To Israel” and Claimed “The Powerful in Britain Have Abted Slaughter and Famine” band.

Kneecap Reitated That Their “Message has Always Been – And Remains – One of Love, inclusion, and hope,” asserting that “No to sell the Campaign Will Change that.”

Addressing Their Controversial Festival Performance, The Group Wrote, “Days After Calling Out the US Administration at Coachella to Applause and Solidarity, There is an avalanche of Outral and Condemnation by the political classes of Britain.”

“The Real Crimes Are Not in Our Performance; The Real Crimes Are The Silence and Complicity of Those in Power,” The Band Ended in Their Message. “Shame On Them.”

During Kneecap's First Coachella Performance, The Group Had Planned to Have Several Projects with Messages About Gaza On Them. However, The Projects Didn'T Make It Onstage, and the set was cut short on coachella's YouTube Livestream. “We Only Heard About it the Next Day and Haven't Heard from Anyone officialy,” band member Mo Chara Told Rolling Stone At the time.

The Second Weekend, The Projects Read, “Israel is paragraph genocide Against the Palestinian People,” and were followed by, “it is being enabled by the US government Who arm and fund Israel Despite Their War Crimes.” At Final Screen Displayed the Words “Fuck Israel. Free Palestine,” and by the end of the set, The Crowd was Chant “Free Palestine.”

The Description of Israel's Reprisals in Gaza After The Hamas Attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, AS Genocide Has Been Highly Contentious. Humanitarian Groups Including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch Have Used That Term, As Have Many Others; former president Joseph R. Biden and the American Jewish Committee, Among Other Groups That Support Israel, Have Strongly Objected to this Framing.

Kneecap's Coachella Performance SPARKED OUTRAGE From Pro-Israel Groups, with Organizations and Public Figures Denouncing the Group. Last Week, Sharon Osbourne Called for the band Members' Visas to be Revked, Accusing Their Projects of Promoting “Anti-Israel Messages and Hate Speech.” When Asked About Osbourne's Tweets, Mo Chara Responded, “Her Rant Has So Many Holes in It That It Hardly Warrants a Reply, But Sheults Listen to 'War Pigs' That was writer by Black Sabbath (Her Husband).”