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

In other words, they have much more to lose if they’re prevented from touring and building on their (relatively modest) success to date. Those considerations didn’t stop the group from projecting the following message on a big screen during their set at the Coachella festival a month

Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people: It is being enabled by the US government who arm and fund Israel despite their war crimes.

Fuck Israel. Free Palestine.

The response they have faced on both sides of the Atlantic, culminating in a police investigation, is an attempt to punish them for stating the facts about Israel’s conduct in Gaza with the appropriate degree of anger.

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