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Kneecap’s Mo Chara Is on Trial for Opposing Genocide in Gaza

jacobin.com Kneecap’s Mo Chara Is on Trial for Opposing Genocide in Gaza

The British authorities have brought trumped-up charges against a member of Irish hip-hop group Kneecap in a bid to stifle criticism of their own complicity with Israeli war crimes. But no amount of legal harassment can stop the truth from getting out.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30627649

By Daniel Finn
05.23.2025

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Not exactly. He is on trial after videos have been revealed showing him calling for upping the Islamic terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah, and calling on the audience to kill their MP.
Considering in the last five years, two MPs: Jo Cox and David Amess have both been murdered on the job it is not at all surprising he has found himself on trial.
- It's not ok for calls to kill anybody, though this process is all because their support of Palestine, clearly. It's also highly ironic that UK, a genocide enabler along USA and Germany at least, is after them.
  
  Disagree, calling for the deaths of evil people is good actually, but not half as good as actually killing them
- Not quite, an unidentifed band member shouted out to kill your MP, but it doesn't appear to be him:
  https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/kneecap-charged-terror-offence-hezbollah-flag-liam-ohanna-pfzlvl83
  "The band, which hit the headlines after projecting the slogan “f*** Israel, free Palestine” above its set at Coachella last month, came under scrutiny after a pair of contentious clips resurfaced online.
  One showed a member of the band shout “the only good Tory is a dead Tory” and “kill your local MP”.
  In the other, one of the performers – alleged to be O’Hanna – could be seen apparently wearing a Hezbollah flag while shouting “up Hamas, up Hezbollah”."
  
  All great, no notes. Kill Tories is even better than up hamas imo
  
  Right?
  one of the performers – alleged to be O’Hanna – could be seen apparently wearing a Hezbollah flag
  Like, an IRA flag would go great with that
  
  Lad,you've clearly know nothing about northern ireland if you want to talk about flags. Just look it up or look up 11/12th july
  
  ~~northern ireland~~
  North of Ireland
  
  Yea you definitely don't know shit about this place
- You're gonna need to help us with that charge.
  Seems like he waved a flag.
  In the wake of the Coachella display, supporters of Israel combed through Kneecap’s back catalogue of performances in search of something they could use to attack the band without having to acknowledge the charge of genocide, against which there is no credible defense. London’s Metropolitan Police have now accused Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, who goes by the name “Mo Chara” (“my friend”) when performing, of waving a Hezbollah flag during a gig last November “in such a way or in such circumstances as to arouse reasonable suspicion that he is a supporter of a proscribed organisation.”
  
  Yes, Hezbollah is a proscribed terrorist organisation. Waving its flag is promoting that organisation, which is an offence under terrorism laws.
  
  Hezbollah is a proscribed terrorist organisation
  By who? The same Western Countries who are funding an apartheid ethnosupremacist state committing genocide and suppressing any resistance. They also labeled the IRA (What do you think the name Kneecap comes from), the FLN, the Vietcong, the ANC as proscribed terrorist organizations. They always label resistance groups against colonialism as terrorists. It doesn't mean shit.
  Hezbollah is also a prominent party within Lebanon's parliamentary system, and only exists out of armed resistance against the settler colonialist actions of Israel within Lebanon.

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