PieFed.WorldIrish rappers Kneecap barred from entering Canada: 'Dangerous endorsements of violence and hate'
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I love that these lads from my humble city of Belfast have caused such a storm on the global stage standing up against genocide. They're on the right side of history.
"Israel's self-defense against terrorism" IS TERRORIZING/MURDERING CIVILIANS
Ragdoll XYou won't believe how many pro genocide is there on my neighbourhood facebook group alone. I should remind you that canada allowed the selling of land in occupied west bank in synagogues
That’s some serious editorialising in that there blurb.
It's pretty messed up that an American company owns canada.com
𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍the government of Canada owns Canada.ca, which is the better link here anyways
UnderpantsWeevilHave they banned Turning Point USA, too?
No. I think they're going to build Charlie Kirk one of those big animatronic memorials.
This all ends in violence.
These headlines with a snippet of an unattributed quote mashed together with an actual headline are starting to rival "X person DESTROYS Y person by saying Z" for the most aggravating writing style.
Kneecap member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, 27, faces terrorism charges after reportedly waving the flag of Lebanese terror group Hezbollah at a show in London last November.
A 2024 performance reportedly caught a group member cheering “Up Hamas, Up Hezbollah.”
Well that was stupid.
Folks will panic at the sight of the wrong flag, while wearing the Union Jack on a breast pocket without an ounce of self-awareness
You’ll forgive the Irish in Northern Ireland for believing that some people won’t be treated as human beings without a bit of violence first.
Didn’t we just let a super felon rapist in like a month ago?
This Gasparro dude used to be a board member of Postmedia.
This is also interesting.
But in general, we don't have very strong free speech protections so I wouldn't be surprised if they remain barred.
Not my values you fascist shit bag.
Fucking bullshit. Turn up your music so everyone can hear.
Remember that american christian MAGA singer two months ago? 🤪
1:1 eh? I guess. 😄
did you see that bozo barred from entering Canada? or even from performing? naah..
You mean the MAGA singer who had a sold out show in Toronto.
These guys and Gary Yourofsky have been banned from Canada. WTF!?
Wtf canada
We banned Eminem at his peak, we're dumb as fuckin rocks on these subjects.
NWA and Beastie Boys too.
The Barenaked Ladies were banned FFS 🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦🏽
Lmaooo
And Jello Biafra.
Shameful
A festival was held in Toronto about a month ago in support of Israel, wow crazy that Canada approved such a dangerous endorsement of violence and hate.
No problem with publicly supporting perpetrators of a genocide, right?
https://www.jewishtoronto.com/the-sounds-of-israel
I'm done with Carney man, this shit is so ass.
Who are we to judge people how they resist their occupier. Canada certainly is not in a historical posture to pitch in on how to resist genocide.
Hezbollah actively supported the Syrian military occupation of Lebanon. A brutal occupation that lasted longer than the Israeli occupation. Hezbollah killed many Lebanese political figures including the most famous one, Rafik Hariri.
To defend Bachar El Assad, they slaughtered sunnis across Syria.
The judge investigating the Beirut Port Explosion ? He receive death threats from Hezbollah.
Let's not white wash their bloody crimes.
That's fair, since they're on the record as endorsing groups that are recognized by the Canadian government as terrorist entities:
To be even more fair; you're directly quoting misinformation released by the Canadian government in support of Israel and their mass murder of Palestinian people (aka, genocide). This misinformation is a result of "Jewish" groups, which recently have shown themselves as basically being lapdogs for the Israeli state.
Kneecap aren't anti-semetic, they are anti-Israel and as much as Israeli fascists want it to be; being against the Israeli state is not the the same as being against Jews.
This!!
Is this video misinformation? https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9ie5qs
Yes because people in power have always made decent decisions. The law is moral and might makes right…
I'm not sure what you mean by that comment - are you saying Hamas and Hezbollah are OK? I wouldn't welcome a band that praises the IDF, and this is no different.
Where did I say this?
Hasbara-brained dummies will remember you saying whatever they want, without evidence.
They got marked as zionist.
How, they equated Hezbollah to the IDF. Regardless of any arguments about equivalence or lack thereof, I don't think a zionist would ever do that.
what do you think of them?
what do you think of october 7th?
Ofcourse you go silent as soon as someone directly asks if you support October 7th... Coward.
Yet you ignore how 65k Palestinians were murdered by the IDF. How pathetic to throw insults.
Talk about deflection and straw manning. You still haven't answered the question.
I don't think you can take a single live artististic performance as "being on the record for endorsing" anything.
Eminem wasn't endorsing everything in his lyrics.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9ie5qs
Yes, like I said.
Me, an intellectual, looking at a guy wearing a Hezbollah flag and saying up Hamas, up Hezbollah: "actually that doesn't prove he likes Hezbollah"
https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-up-hamas-up-hezbollah-video-irish-band-kneecap-denies-supporting-terror-groups
I find it hard to reconcile that with the video, but if they are willing to publicly apologize for it then they should be allowed into Canada.