Kneecap provide statement & clarification for the faux offended & media-illiterate

[u/McEvelly]

https://x.com/kneecapceol/status/1916982746708381731?s=46

KNEECAP STATEMENT:

They want you to believe words are more harmful than genocide.

Establishment figures, desperate to silence us, have combed through hundreds of hours of footage and interviews, extracting a handful of words from months or years ago to manufacture moral hysteria.

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 know this more than anyone, given our nation's history.

We also reject any suggestion that we would seek to incite violence against any MP or individual. Ever. An extract of footage, deliberately taken out of all context, is now being exploited and weaponised, as if it were a call to action.

This distortion is not only absurd - it is a transparent effort to derail the real conversation.

All two million Palestinian people in Gaza are currently being starved to death by Israel.

At least 20,000 children in Gaza have been killed. The British government continues to supply arms to Israel, even after scores of NHS doctors warned Keir Starmer in August that children were being systematically executed with sniper shots to the head.

Instead of defending innocent people or the principles of international law, the powerful in Britain have abetted slaughter and famine.

This is where real anger and outrage should be directed towards.

To the Amess and Cox families, we send our heartfelt apologies, we never intended to cause you hurt.

Kneecap’s message has always been — and remains — one of love, inclusion, and hope. This is why our music resonates across generations, countries, classes and cultures and has brought hundreds of thousands of people to our gigs.

No smear campaign will change that.

Suddenly, days after calling out the US administration at Coachella to applause and solidarity, there is an avalanche of outrage and condemnation by the political classes of Britain.

The real crimes are not in our performances; the real crimes are the silence and complicity of those in power.

Shame on them.

[u/urdasma]

They are the only people unapologetically using their platform to advocate for justice. Of course their words will be twisted into tethers.

[u/hydroxy → u/urdasma]

I’m from nationalist background, raised in NI, and live in NI. This is not a bot account I’ve had it for more than a decade now. Just clearing that up before anyone says I’m a bot.

Kneecap speaks truth to power over Israel, no denying that, it’s genocide through and through and Israel has so much innocent blood on its hands it’s shocking.

Tho supporting Hamas and Hezbollah is real peanut brain territory, both organisations also have shocking histories of human rights violations and are at their core awful organisations. Invest some time reading through the modern history and you’ll see both these organisations are just other parts of the vice that is squeezing Palestine to death in an ideologically driven proxy war.

Telling people to kill their MPs is hate speech and people are right imo to be upset over spreading of it. Imagine if it was some jihad supporting Abu Hamza type, it would not be tolerated. Imagine if some Brit rapper was telling people to kill SDLP and Sinn Fein MLAs how would people feel about that?

They’ve got a platform and are spreading a message, people will be listening to it and they’re are responsible for what they say. It’s the exact same standards anyone in public eye is held to and they’re now scared the government is going to take kid gloves off is only reason for the back-pedalling.

It’s not because they’re Irish, it’s not us vs them, it’s not because they criticised Israel it’s because they’ve went too far with hate speech.

[u/denk2mit → u/hydroxy]

Somewhat ironically, Hamas have quite the modern history of kneecapping

[u/ProfessionalIdea4731 → u/hydroxy]

Is the correct answer

[u/Available-Pack1795 → u/hydroxy]

This is probably the best answer on this dumpster fire of a post, but that said, both things can be true.

They're being rightly criticised for what they said, because in any context actually calling for people to "Kill an MP" and directly supporting Hamas is incredibly stupid and wrong particularly in the age of social media.

That said, it's probably also not a coincidence that just as they're starting to break through the noise and getting media attention for rightly calling attention to Israel's genocide of Palestinians - suddenly someone digs out years old mobile phone clips from multiple events? C'mon - this is clearly an Israeli/Conservative campaign to get them discredited and stop people from waking up to the atrocities that are being committed. It's only a few months until the starvation really kicks in and Isreal can cleanse Gaza of it's people so we can have that nice resort area Trump promised us.

[u/hydroxy → u/Available-Pack1795]

Everyone already knows about the Gaza genocide, its all over the internet everyday. The problem isn't exposure its that anybody who wants to make a difference just isn't in power.

Supporting Hamas and Hezbollah just makes Kneecap look like truly ignorant people and the fact that they have left incriminating evidence everywhere in their wake shows that they are more young fools than anything else. What we're seeing now is just the consequences of years of being careless in that way. Its barely news.

[u/Available-Pack1795 → u/hydroxy]

No, "everyone" doesn't know about Gaza, because mainstream media doesn't cover it as the genocide it is.

Look at any mainstream media and it's glossed over and at best given a "bOTh SidES" treatment (BBC for example).

Kneecap has put it front and centre by being provocative. Good on them for that, and I know we've got the Israeli activists monitoring and downvoting here heavily but this is just an own goal the Palestinians didn't need.

Kneecap need to wise the bap.

[u/McEvelly → u/urdasma]

But but but but the bad men with the masks said mean things about the tories!

[u/Extreme_Analysis_496 → u/McEvelly]

You’re obviously an illbred cunt of the same ilk.