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But personally I am a lot more upset by IDF war crimes than I am by a moron with a microphone, though he deserves the criticism. Our media and politicians are creating these issues by their abject failure to provide moral leadership condemning daily Israeli atrocities.
I said at the start of this that Netanyahu would use Hamas’ crimes to justify a totally disproportionate response and in so doing he would fuel antisemitism globally and increase the risks for ordinary Jewish people in their dispersed homes. That is exactly where we are.
It won’t get better with hand-wringing and government condemnations over an opportunistic idiot seeing a chance to hog the limelight whilst the same government is still offering political and military support to Israel. This only fuels the narrative of those bad-faith actors trying to stir genuine antisemitism. Previous Message
….if I’m at a concert and that starts I’m out. Any decent person should know that’s wrong at their gut level. Like hearing ‘Everton are white’ at the game back in the day; you just don’t join in.
The guy is a tool. He’s crossed a line. I suspect through ignorance as much as anything. He’ll be charged, rightly. And now that ridiculous 31 month sentence for Lucy Connelly has become a protest cause for the populist movement, we won’t hear the last of it unless he gets the same. Previous Message
not my kind of music so haven't heard the sets but it seems the most contentious thing has been encouraging chants of "death to the IDF". Strong stuff, yes, and not something I would have joined in with personally - once you start going down the road of saying calls to violence are justified in one particular case you are on a slippery slope.
But I think the idea was to increase publicity and scrutiny of what the IDF are actually up to Gaza, and in that sense it has worked.
The usual suspects are of course popping up to call it antisemitism, the definition of which seems to have changed from "hatred of Jews" to "anything critical of the Israeli state". I wish they'd stop with this disingenuous bullshit.
Keir Starmer saying it was "not appropriate" for Kneecap to perform probably boosted their popularity no end. Extra cool points there.
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