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Kneecap's manager appears to praise terror leaders and compare Israel to the Nazis in unearthed social media posts - amid fury over Irish rappers telling crowd to 'kill your local MP'
@Source: dailymail.co.uk
Kneecap's manager appeared to praise terror leaders and compare Israel to the Nazis in a string of unearthed social media posts.
Last night, Jewish leaders wrote to organisers of the Glastonbury Festival demanding the rap group be 'immediately removed' from this year's line-up.
It comes after the Mail revealed the Irish trio told fans to 'kill your local MP' and said 'the only good Tory is a dead Tory' during a concert in November 2023.
Scotland Yard are also looking into footage from a show in November 2024 during which a band member appeared to shout: 'Up Hamas, up Hezbollah'.
In a post on X, Daniel Lambert, who has managed the band since 2019, shared two pictures of the Brandenburg Gate – one with it draped in Nazi flags, the other in Israeli flags. He captioned them: 'History repeating itself in Berlin...'
Meanwhile, on December 14, 2024, Mr Lambert shared a picture of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with the caption: 'Hassan Nasrallah spoke an awful lot more sense than Netanyahu does'.
He also shared an image of October 7 mastermind Yaya Sinwar alongside a quotation from the Hamas leader: 'Does the world expect us to be well-behaved victims while we are getting killed?'
And on the day of the October 7 attacks, Mr Lambert, a former Irish ambassador to the UN, tweeted: 'Gaza is now attempting to break out of its prison and striking for liberation.' He also wrote: 'Gaza is an occupied territory and therefore has the right to armed resistance under International Law.'
A legal representative for Mr Lambert said the Netanyahu claim was 'in reference to a very specific video clip', adding: 'This cannot be equated with 'praising Hamas and Hezbollah leaders'.'
The legal representative also said Mr Lambert 'did not compare Israel to Nazis – he compared 'Zionists', adding: 'The reference to 'resistance' was in reference to the topic of international law... and the fact resistance is 'legal'.'
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp urged Glastonbury to ban the group.
And Andrew Gilbert, of the Board of Deputies, said it is 'writing to the organisers of Glastonbury to urge them to immediately remove Kneecap from their line-up...
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