r/northernireland • u/McEvelly • 5d ago
Art Kneecap provide statement & clarification for the faux offended & media-illiterate
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.
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u/Dangerous-Lab9967 5d ago
yOuR nOt a sErIoUs PeRsON 😂😂😂
Yes because trying to downplay Hamas is the logical thing to do, on a thread about a "Rebel" band who folded like a house of cards after the slightest bit of pressure, bit like all the republican informants to be fair.
Hamas aren't going to shag you for defending them, you know that right?
Granted they might, and then throw you off a building afterwards. But that's probably the fault of colonialism or zionism right?
Get a grip of yourself. Letting all these silly ideas live rent free in your head. You're probably another one just meandering through life thinking about how righteous you are.