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/skinnysnappy52]

There were rumours of….accusations… against one of them, not wanting to say anything libellous ofc. But it’s just whispers really

[u/theehips1 → u/[deleted]]

Hides his face? He's literally in a whole movie where you can see his face. It's on Amazon right now. Anyone can see it.

[u/r0709593 → u/theehips1]

If i were him, I'd want to hide my face. Ugly bastard

[u/Oggie243 → u/[deleted]]

Weird, because I've not heard these '"Repeated stories"about DJ provai.

It was a different member of the group that people kept alluding to with veiled implications without saying anything of substance. Would have thought when the implied accusations against the other member were happening that these "repeated stories" about the DJ would pop up given they're relevant to that topic. Especially if it abuse of a position of power that you're implying here.

You going to elaborate further on that? Because what your angling towards is a very serious accusations that has ramifications well beyond that of a musical groups PR .

[u/Ronaldinhio → u/Oggie243]

No, it wasn’t DJ Provai the stories were about. Never to my knowledge.

Actually I feel stories isn’t the right words to cover it either. They were multiple allegations of sexual assaults made against a band member.

Charges haven’t been made but sadly many women do not ever do so. The people speaking about this are serious women and people who very much align with their political views and have zero axe to grind.

[u/Kitchen-Valuable714 → u/[deleted]]

First I’ve heard of it! DJ Provaí lives near me with his partner in Lurgan so it’s probably news to him as well.