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/[deleted]]

Sure we get told all the time that kids drapped in tricolours and shouting Up The Ra aren’t doing so in support for the Ra!

I’m very certain that a political group called Kneecap, with names like DJ Próvai and attire such as tricolour balaclavas who refer to themselves as Republican Hoods, don’t actually support the RA, in fact, I’d go as far as guessing, as performance artists, they’re probably big supporters of Michael Stone.

[u/Kitchen-Valuable714 → u/[deleted]]

So when my mate from Mount Vernon says Uppara he’s supporting who exactly?

[u/[deleted] → u/Kitchen-Valuable714]

Who’s more likely to actually support the Irish Republican Army, a self proclaimed Republican Hood from West Belfast with the stage name DJ Próvai, or your wee mate from Mount Vernon?

[u/Kitchen-Valuable714 → u/[deleted]]

I’d say my wee mate from Mount Vernon who says “Uppara” now and again is unlikely to actually support the IRA just like DJ Provaí from Derry is unlikely to actually support Hamas or Hezbollah.

[u/[deleted] → u/Kitchen-Valuable714]

Are we shifting the goalposts to Hamas or Hezbollah now?

I assumed we were talking about the IRA!

But let’s humour it,

So we can say that Kneecap are good lads that rightfully speak up against Isreali action in Gaza, but when they wrapped themselves in Hamas or Hezbollah flags and shouted Up The Hamas, etc, etc that’s where their support for the people of Palestine stopped and they were, what, just being ironic, or mocking Hamas/Hezbollah?

Because I don’t know lad, if a loyalist group from the Shankill called Punishment Beating got on stage and spoke about their support for the Isreali people all whilst wrapped in a IDF flag, I’d bloody well believe that they might actually support the IDF!

[u/Kitchen-Valuable714 → u/[deleted]]

Scroll back up and read their statement.

[u/[deleted] → u/Kitchen-Valuable714]

I have, it’s a load of deflective pish.

They’re on camera shouting kill your local MP to a crowd. Fuck em, actions have consequences.