While Kneecap are kneecapped, UK Labour lied about arming Israel for its war crime – when will NZDF be brought back from this shame?

Counter terror police investigate band Kneecap over controversial videos, as more gigs canceled

Hip hop Irish trio Kneecap is being investigated by UK counter-terrorism police after videos emerged allegedly showing the band calling for politicians to be killed and shouting “up Hamas, up Hezbollah.”

It comes after the group, who are vocal critics of Israel’s war in Gaza, came under fire for their pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel messaging at the Coachella music festival last month.

The British police investigation follows widespread criticism of the band’s alleged comments, which led to several of their upcoming gigs being canceled. Some lawmakers are also calling for Glastonbury organizers to drop Kneecap from next month’s festival line-up.

Meanwhile, dozens of musicians and artists have signed an open letter supporting the group’s right to freedom of expression.

While Irish Hip Hop super group ‘Kneecap’ get kneecapped for decrying Israel’s war crime, the UK has been caught out enabling Israel’s ethnic cleansing war crime…

Revealed: Britain’s Labour Government Sent 8,000 “Munitions of War” to Israel After Saying It Had Stopped

After the UK adopted a new policy that it would not allow any weapons shipments that could be used in Gaza, Britain’s Labour government allowed the export of 8,630 separate munitions to Israel.

The information is revealed in a new report, based on Israeli Tax Authority data, conducted by the Palestinian Youth Movement, Progressive International, and Workers for a Free Palestine and shared with Drop Site News.

The report reveals four separate shipments from the UK to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv between September 2024 and February 2025.

The Department for Business and Trade, which oversees British arms exports, refused to specify what the deliveries contained. A UK government spokesman instead told Drop Site, “In September, we suspended export licenses to Israel for items used in military operations in Gaza. Our remaining licenses relate to non-military items, military items for civilian use or not for use in military operations in Gaza, or components for items for re-export to other countries.”

But the Israeli authorities categorized the items delivered as “Bombs, Grenades, Torpedoes, Mines, Missiles And Similar Munitions Of War And Parts Thereof.”

In September 2024, a flight carrying 528 items in this category arrived in Israel from the UK. In November, a flight carrying a further 4,500 munitions arrived. The following January and February, UK flights carrying 3,602 individual munitions were delivered. The Israeli imports are organized by month and use customs codes to identify the type of product being delivered.

The UK government is facing calls for transparency and a full arms embargo on Israel from organizers and politicians alike. The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), which co-authored the new report, is demanding the UK government release a complete account of the shipments and calling for an immediate and total arms embargo on Israel. Jeanine Hourani, a representative of the PYM, told Drop Site, “These findings confirm what we already knew: Britain is complicit in the genocide of our people. But, while the government enables the flow of weapons for war and ethnic cleansing, the British people stand with Gaza.”

…isn’t it hilarious?

Irish Hip Hop band who decry Israel’s war crime = immediate investigation.

UK Government lies about enabling that war crime with weapon shipments = nothing to see here.

When you enable war crimes, you lose any moral high ground.

Talking of moral high ground, now Trump has ‘negotiated’ a deal with the Houthi over shooting at ships in the Red Sea…

Trump says US to stop attacking Houthis in Yemen as group has ‘capitulated’

…can we now bring our NZDF staff back from helping target because if we remain, we are only helping defend Israel from the Houthi’s and remember, we were only sent to protect  shipping.

There is no way NZ should disgrace its mana by defending Israel.

Bring out military home.

 

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