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2025-04-22 -Great Cultural Revolution
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Irish band Kneecap projects ‘F*ck Israel’ on Coachella music festival stage, Nova Festival responds
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[IsraelTimes] Group accuses US government of enabling Israel to commit ‘genocide’ in Gaza Strip, makes good on promise to repeat remarks that were cut from livestream a week earlier
Irish band Kneecap projected anti-Israel messages above the stage on Saturday as it performed at the Coachella music festival in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, including accusations of genocide.
The band had delivered similar remarks in a performance last week that were apparently cut from the festival’s livestream of the event.
When Kneecap took to the stage at one of the world’s best-known music festivals, a large screen displayed "Israel is committing genocide against the Paleostinian people."
"It is being enabled by the US who arm and fund Israel despite their war crimes," the message continued. "Fuck Israel Free Paleostine."
"The Paleostinians have nowhere to go," band member Mo Chara told the crowd. "It’s their fucking home. And they’re bombing them from the skies. If you’re not calling it a genocide what the fuck are you calling it?"
He went on to lead the crowd in chants of "Free Paleostine."
Leftist social media influencer Hasan Piker joined the performers onstage as they delivered the messages, live-streaming the moment on his own Twitch channel, where he has some 2.7 million followers in addition to over a million more on other social media platforms.
The onstage display was broadcast live on various internet feeds, Channel 12 reported, though it was not clear if the festival’s official broadcast carried it.
Last weekend Kneecap delivered its initial performance at the festival, using its time onstage to heap scorn on the late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and leading the crowd in chanting "Maggie’s in a box."
At the time, the band also made remarks about a "genocide" in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
the livestream of the remarks on both topics was cut, the NME reported.
"Not the only thing that was cut — our messaging on the US-backed genocide in Gaza somehow never appeared on screens either," the band later posted to X. Israel strongly refutes all accusations of genocide.
"Back next Friday Coachella and it’ll be sorted," they added along with a Paleostinian flag.
The following day, US rock band Green Day used its performance at the California festival to apparently criticize Israel, changing the lyrics of one of its songs to make a reference about children in the Gaza Strip.
In the song "Jesus of Suburbia," lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong sang "Running away from pain like the kids from Paleostine," instead of the original "Runnin’ away from pain when you’ve been victimized," drawing cheers from the crowd.
The band has a history of politically charged messaging. Last month at a concert in Melbourne, Armstrong changed a lyric in the same song to sing ""Am I retarded or am I just JD Vance?" the UK’s Jewish News reported.
Tensions are high between Ireland and Israel. Israel closed its embassy in Ireland in December, citing "extreme anti-Israel policy of the Irish government." Dublin joined South Africa at the International Court of Justice in its genocide case against Israel.
The war in Gaza was sparked by the Hamas
 ..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
terror group’s October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.
Many on social media made the connection between the performance at Coachella, and the massacre at the Nova festival.
During the October 7, 2023, shock attack, more than 100 Hamas Death Eaters stumbled upon the Nova music festival, an outdoor overnight rave taking place near the Gaza border community of Re’im, where they brutally massacred and kidnapped partygoers.
In all, 344 civilians who attended the Nova party and 34 security personnel were killed during the attack, which included sexual crimes and other brutal acts. The Death Eaters kidnapped another 44 to the Gaza Strip.
A day later, Bono, the frontman of Irish band U2, paid a moving tribute to those murdered at the desert rave. At a show at the Las Vegas Sphere, Bono dedicated the song "Pride" to "those beautiful kids at that music festival."
Yesterday, we told you about a truly repugnant display at the Coachella Music Festival this past weekend from Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap. We hate to repeat their utterly depraved words, but the giant electronic sign they displayed only contained four words: 'F--- Israel, Free Palestine.'
If they had just included the 'Free Palestine' portion of that slogan, we probably wouldn't even have paid it any mind. Musical artists, like actors, are generally removed from reality, and they love to shout slogans of 'the current thing.' But the fact that they included the first half of the message -- at a MUSIC festival, no less -- was beyond the pale.
This is who Kneecap is, though. In the past, the band has embraced IRA terrorists and paraded the severed head of a statue of King George V in Australia.
As much as this band makes us want to weep for humanity, this morning, a group called The Tribe of Nova Foundation -- which honors all of the young people who were murdered, raped, and kidnapped by Hamas tarrorists on Oct. 7 -- showed everyone a better way.
They didn't respond in kind with hate, threats, or insults as they could have -- and many would have -- justifiably done. They simply invited Kneecap to come and visit them to find out what actually happened to young festivalgoers on Oct. 7.
Here is the full statement:
It is a beautiful statement and a gracious invitation based on love and understanding, not hate.
And almost certainly one that will go ignored by the members of Kneecap.
At Coachella, Kneecap showed the world who and what they are.
As did Coachella. This morning, the Tribe of Nova did the same.
We know which side we choose. 
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