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KNEECAP STATEMENT: Since our statements at Coachella — exposing the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people — we have faced a coordinated smear campaign. For over a year, we have used our shows to call out the British and Irish governments' complicity in war crimes. The recent attacks against us, largely emanating from the US, are based on deliberate distortions and falsehoods. We are taking action against several of these malicious efforts. Let us be absolutely clear. The reason Kneecap is being targeted is simple — we are telling the truth, and our audience is growing. Those attacking us want to silence criticism of a mass slaughter. They weaponize false accusations of antisemitism to distract, confuse, and provide cover for genocide. We do not give a f*ck what religion anyone practices. We know there are massive numbers of Jewish people outraged by this genocide just as we are. What we care about is that governments of the countries we perform in are enabling some of the most horrific crimes of our lifetimes — and we will not stay silent. No media spin will change this. Our only concern is the Palestinian people — the 20,000 murdered children and counting. The young people at our gigs see through the lies. They stand on the side of humanity and justice. And that gives us great hope. Kneecap ❤️

ASSASSINS The media reported today in shock that Israeli snipers killed two Christian women inside a church in Gaza. But is that news? Israeli snipers routinely kill unarmed civilians. Here's a sample of unarmed Palestinian civilians killed by "specially trained" Israeli snipers during the overwhelmingly nonviolent Great March of Return in 2018. (Compiled by an Independent International Commission of Inquiry) documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/…

A gut wrenching reminder that a ceasefire yesterday would have saved Dunia's life.

NEW: Britons are more likely to say they prefer a political party that takes strong action on climate change to one that slows down such action. Survey with @IpsosUK & @coalition_zero following our #COP28Outcomes Summit last week kcl.ac.uk/news/britons-m…

Remember you can carry knives, stalk, rape and murder and the govt will give you the shortest sentence possible - but threaten the interests of the richest people in the country by ‘walking in the road for half an hour’ and off to prison for six months you go!

The generators have also stopped working and so calls are v short now. No internet of course. They are beyond desperate and terrified. It’s been over 60 days now and it’s just getting worse and worse. 2/2

This 4-minute video has more truth to tell about the actual experience of dying--and more reassurance--than shelves of books on the subject. By a palliative care specialist. From @aeonmag. aeon.co/videos/demysti…

The horror

President Michael D Higgins has turned on the Christmas tree lights at Áras an Uachtaráin. In an address at the event, the President said, “We think, in particular, of the children of Gaza and Israel”.

@antonioguterres Thank you. Please keep going.

This week, I urged the Security Council to press to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza & I reiterated my appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire. ‌ Regrettably, the Security Council failed to do it. ‌ But that does not make it less necessary. ‌ I promise: I will not give up.

I do have a Christmas song we can all get behind and that is a peace anthem which condemns the killing of young innocent children or anybody for that matter - no matter what country they are from. Away in Bomb Shelters @omid9 @GaryLineker @GreenJennyJones @piersmorgan #Retweet

Listen to the end.

This is a study by an Israeli professor: “The ratio is significantly higher than the average civilian toll in all the conflicts around the world during the 20th century.” | Civilians make up 61% of Gaza deaths from airstrikes, Israeli study finds theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…

I know I'm a broken record but can we PLEASE give new politicians a course in what parliamentary DEMOCRACY is and how it works, so they don't keep embarrassing themselves and the nation with this Mussolini-lite baby talk.

Refaat Alareer's course on English poetry at the Islamic University of Gaza from 2019. 28 sessions on form and content, text and context, meter, metaphor, rhyme, caesura, and parody. Our teacher. youtube.com/watch?v=gRDwGM…

" I’m Jewish, I’m Israeli, my parents were the only survivors of their families from the Holocaust. I’m not going to support a genocide , am I ?” #Gaza #Israel

@alison_phipps So very, very sorry for your loss and for all the monumental losses

This is devastating news. One of the lead investigators on our arts and creative story writing project with Palestinian folktales - a gigantic literary talent & Shakespeare scholar Gaza wrote back through Prof Refaat Al-Areer, beloved by students, colleagues, and translators

Rest easy, @BZephaniah. What an incredible recital of 'Money' in early 90s Newcastle, below.

A reminder of the racism Benjamin Zephaniah had to suffer during his lifetime. This example is from The Sun in 1987... #BenjaminZephaniah