Kneecap threw an anti-Israel rhetoric on the stage in Coachella on Saturday with an exhibition of “FF-KSRAEL, Free Palestine” and a member of the Irish rap group that goes to a diatribe about the “genocide” of the Jewish state in Gaza.
The group, which openly compatible The “Palestinian fight” one day after the massacre of October 7, 2023 at the Nova Music Festival and published a book Celebrating Hezbollah’s head Hassan Nasrallah – Made in front of a backdrop that said: “F – K Israel Free Palestine”.
“They are bombarding them with heaven. If you don’t call it genocide, what are you calling it?” Member of the Mo Chara Band The strident cheers were toldWhile a screen behind the band said: “The US government and finances Israel despite its war crimes.”
The West Belfast band, which according to the reports are called themselves “Hoods Republican”, stirred a yellow hezbollah flag on stage during a concert in London in November 2024.
Nova’s survivors shared their complaint, and outrage, about “anti -Semitism” on display.
“I am sad to see that the dance floor is being used to spread hate and anti -Semitism. It is assumed that the dance floor is a safe place for everyone,” said Ofir Amir, co -founder and survivor of the Nova Music Festival, to the post.
Amir, 42, who was shot in his legs on October 7, said it was ironic that the two festivals, Coachella in California and the Nova festival near the border of Gaza, are places so that the young people of all the origins join and freely enjoy music.
“As a survivor of Nova, it is devastating to see the world choose and choose whose lives matter. We were attacked while danced by peace, just like people dancing in Coachella.” Nova Lee Sasi SurvivorThat it was regular from Coachella, he told the post. “The difference is that, when the Israelis are attacked, the world remains silent. Hypocrisy is not only painful, it is dangerous.”
Long Island Nova’s survivor Natalie Sanandaji told The Post that the “silence” of much of the music industry after October 7 was “painful enough.”
“We were attacked and killed while trying to enjoy life and dance. But anti -Semitic artists are attacking us again,” said the 29 -year -old. “Now they make dance floors around the world are not safe for Jews or for anyone who is with the Jewish people.”
The ecstatic reaction of the multitude of Coachella, he added, “basically I wanted me dead or that I had died on October 7 instead of surviving” and that 364 deaths were “justified.”
Kneecap’s genocide accusations courout revelation last month that the Gaza Ministry of Health led by Hamas Song about the death toll Or women and children for Israeli forces. The composition of the death toll is closer to approximately 72% of men, from 13 to 55 years, which would probably do themes of the terrorist group.
The surveillance surveillance groups are told to the publication that they tried Festival’s first weekend door buttons.
According to the reports, Kneecap’s live food was cut the opening weekend when the band hit the crowd to sing Anti-Margaret Thatcher Rhetoric.
ARI INGEL, Executive Director or Creative community for peaceThat it helps fight anti -Semitism in the entertainment industry, he told The Post that he tried to sound the alarm on the “radical” group to direct hikes of the festival owners, Goldenvoice and AEG.
“They totally ignored it,” he said that the festival is about “joining everyone and celebrating life” was allowed to be “kidnapped by extremists.”
“And they knew that this could happen, clearly, since we alert them and what they saw the first week,” Ingel criticized.
The representatives of the band and the executives of AEG and Goldenvoice did not respond to multiple requests for comments from the publication.
Liora Rez, founder and executive director of Stopantisemitism, criticized Coachella for giving Kneecap a platform.
“Imagine if a thousand terrorists had invaded Coachella: rape and mutilate alertion. Imagine if they had hundreds of hostages and tortured them in tunnels, five floors underground,” Rez said. “That is what happened to the Israeli lovers of peace at the Nova Festival. That is who should feel solidarity.
