• inkrifle@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    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.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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      22 days ago

      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”."

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      22 days ago

      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.”

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        22 days ago

        Yes, Hezbollah is a proscribed terrorist organisation. Waving its flag is promoting that organisation, which is an offence under terrorism laws.

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          21 days ago

          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.

    • Mihies@programming.dev
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      22 days ago

      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.

      • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml
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        21 days ago

        Disagree, calling for the deaths of evil people is good actually, but not half as good as actually killing them