The hip hop trio Kneecap ended their second Coachella festival performance Friday by projecting strong anti-Israel statements.
The Northern Irish group claimed Coachella censored pro-Palestinian messaging during their debut at the major music festival, according to Billboard. They went out with a bang by closing their set with targeted political messages.
“Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” they wrote. “It is being enabled by the U.S. government who arm and fund Israel despite their war crimes. Fuck Israel; free Palestine.”
Kneecap’s April 11 performance was reportedly slated to include the messages, but they were not displayed at the time, according to Billboard.
The band made sure their message was delivered on social media.
They shared video their Coachella footage on Instagram as they delivered their strong Pro-Palestine statements.
“The Irish not so long ago were persecuted at the hands of the Brits, but we were never bombed from the fucking skies with nowhere to go,” the Kneecap frontman boomed into the microphone.
“The Palestinians have nowhere to go, it’s their fucking home, and they’re bombing them from the skies.”
He went on to say, “If you’re not calling it a genocide, what the fuck are you calling it?”
He then engaged the audience to join him by repeatedly chanting “Free, free Palestine.”
This year’s Coachella festival has been riddled with artists protesting Israel and demonstrating their support of Palestine.
Green Day altered their song lyrics to give attention to Palestinian children. and Bob Vylan and Blonde Redhead also debuted Palestinian flags amid their performances. (RELATED: ‘I Don’t Care About Palestine’: Jerry Seinfeld Responds To On-Camera Ambush)
Kneecap’s performance garnered the most attention and triggered a response from music mogul Scooter Braun. He defended the co-founder of Coachella, Paul Tollett, noting his support for the victims of Hamas’ attack on the Nova Music Festival in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. “When I invited him to the opening of the Nova music exhibit in Los Angeles, he was the first person from the industry to accept. He came on his own time and spent five hours in the exhibit and then met with survivors of Nova and invited them to the festival,” he wrote.
He also responded directly to Kneecap’s messaging, inviting members of the group to the Nova Exhibition in Toronto to “experience firsthand the stories of those who were murdered, those who survived, and those who are still being held hostage.”
This article was originally published at dailycaller.com
