Why are Kneecap not in prison?

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But Lucy Connelly is? Kneecap told people to kill their MPs. Why have they not been arrested.

(To be very clear, I do not condone violence of any kind towards anyone, I'm just asking as this seems like a double standard, can someone explain?)

Support for Hezbollah 🙄

Wont let me post the picture of Kneecap band member in a balaclava reading a book called “The Voice of Hezbollah “” But It’s easy to find online

israeli policy is to block aid. I think the figure for aid blocked is over 80%. It’s not like it’s a secret. They are deliberately starving children and denying them basic medical supplies so that in 2025 toddlers are having limbs amputated with no swabs, no adequate pain relief, this was reported in a clip from an interview with a returned British doctor that I saw recently , but it’s not like you have to look far for similar accounts. The Kneecap furore is.a blessing to governments to deflect attention from their complicity.

'They are deliberately starving children and denying them basic medical supplies'

Yes it is disgusting what hamas are doing.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1162806

I’ve never seen such blatant DARVO

I do not support Hamas bit it was Israeli soldiers who targetted ais workers , murdered them ( not killed murdered them) buried them and their ambulance . Israel are guilty of war crimes . Israel atate policy is to starve gaza.Nie wieder should mean Never Again to all Genocide. The Israeli States genocidal intent is clear. Hamas are brutal terrorists but Israeli state are actively committing genocide with funding from USA and the silence of Europe . For shame

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrv5rl73zdo.amp

do the people who keep saying “but hamas” not see the horror of atrocities inflicted by a state, a government? Of course Hamas are awful and they are recognised as terrorists and are illegal to support. But the war crimes committed by Israel are done so BY AND FOR THE GOVERNMENT. Is that not even more horrific??? I don’t understand the “but terrorists” argument.
it is precisely the fact that saying up Hamas can get you arrested but “up Israel” is not that is terrifying. For those going on about proscribed terrorist organisations….why therefore is Israel not a proscribed terrorist organisation?

I do not have particularly strong views on the Palestine-Israel conflict but it is remarkable how similar the arguments are to the Northern Ireland issue. I have had the same argument - of course the IRA committed atrocities. But is it not more alarming that the actual British government murdered civilians? Support for the IRA is illegal but support for the British army is absolutely fine.

this is not whataboutery. It is central to understanding the dynamic of occupation.

'For shame' did you really just say that?

There has been deaths on both sides. We can agree it is a terrible conflict. 3 scrotes from Belfast chanting up hamas doesn't help anyone.

Bloody well said!!!

'I do not have particularly strong views on the Palestine-Israel conflict but it is remarkable how similar the arguments are to the Northern Ireland issue'

Well I suppose there are similarities in that when terrorists murder people there will be consequences yes.

i think you are being purposefully obtuse so I’m out.

Are you truly this obtuse?

Absolutely agree

You cherry picked a tiny bit of that post. Took this part out of context and then posted something pretty ignorant underneath.

Why do you think the IRA was formed in the first place? That, too, was a consequence.
And before anyone calls me a terrorist sympathiser, yes I condemn the atrocities committed by the IRA (and the UDF, and the British Military)

It’s absolutely obscene that you could use any argument at all to attempt to justify the actions of the current Israeli government.
Their intention as stated is to clear the Gaza Strip of anyone they haven’t yet managed to starve or pulverise.
This is way way beyond ‘consequences for terrorism’ It IS terrorism. it is genocide. It is a crime against humanity.
The fact that people on here are bleating about Kneecap while children are being deliberately and knowingly starved to death is really just disgusting.

Did I just say for shame. A thousand times yes.
Hamas is a terrorist organisation however Israel is a acting as a terrorist state. Its not about defending themselves or trying to free hostages. It's about power and to complete the land grab. It's about forcing Palestinians off their land by starving them or bombing them into oblivion. Israels policy is about collective punishment. The Israeli state have disgraced themselves they are committing genocide and ignoring international law . Deaths on both sides don't cut it.

I don’t understand why ira sympathizers would want it to be associated with Hamas. Hamas are vastly worse than the IRA ever was

Agreed re Hamas however a bit of background. Both Ireland and Palestine were colonised. The IRA had links with the lots of guerilla armies around the world including Palestinian Liberation Army, African National Congress ( don't forget before Nelson Mandela was celebrated he was called a terrorist , basque group etc. Theres a saying History was written by the Victor's so I have a feeling that Uks colonial history is taught very different in the UK than in it's former colonies, same with all the European States. Another saying "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter". Make no mistake I am not glorifying any of the above but it is inportant
To know your history.

Yeah cheers for that bleeding obvious wiki summary

Very well written.
To add, in almost all of the reading I have done online about the conflict in NI, I see that the IRA are now largely referred to as a ‘paramilitary organisation’ rather than a terrorist one.

I feel like I have to put this bloody disclaimer on everything I post now but
I DO NOT SUPPORT TERRORISM

Why so rude?

Because your comment wss clearly so insightful . Well done you!