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Southside and Hurricane are among the largest festivals in Germany. The Irish band should also perform Kneecap there. But after her appearance at the Coachella Festival in the United States, the production company will withdraw.
With anti-Israel and critical statements, the band Kneecap has caused a scandal at the Coachella Festival in California. Music manager and moderator Sharon Osborne even demanded that the Irish to be withdrawn her work visa for the United States. Now the appearance has followed for the band: The production company FKP Scorpio said the planned appearances of Kneecap at the German festivals Hurricane and Southside, as a spokesman world confirmed.
KNEACAP do not come to the festivals
“The band Kneecap will not appear on the Hurricane and the Southside Festival this year,” it said. In light letters, the rappers on the Coachella stage had sayings such as “Fuck Israel, Free Palestine”, “Israel commits a genocide on the Palestinian people” and “The US government armed and finances Israel on the stage despite the war crimes”. During the appearance on April 18, the musician known for her political commitment made the audience call “Free, Free Palestine”.
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The young forum of the German-Israeli society welcomed the discharge. “Anyone who supports or glorify terrorist organizations such as the Hisbollah or Hamas must not have a place at concert stages,” said the federal chairman Lasse Schauder and recalled the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023 at the Nova Festival in Israel. The Hamas committed “a genocide massacre”, in which over 350 festival goers murdered and several more were dragged, raped or injured. The Proisraeli association called for the “consistent examination of all future bookings in order not to give any room for anti -Semitic agitation”.
Sharon Osbourne, wife of Ozzy Osbourne, had criticized the band’s “aggressive political statements” at the appearance of the band when they appeared in California and demanded consequences for such “hate speech”. “Statements are not aggressive, unlike the murder of 20,000 children,” the band replied to the BBC.
The background is the war in the Gaza strip after the terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Hamas and other extremist groups killed around 1200 people and abducted more than 250 Israelis as hostages in the Gaza strips.
Israel’s hard military approach causes criticism from various states, the International Criminal Court had issued arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Joav Galant in November. According to the health authority controlled by the Hamas, more than 51,300 people have been killed in the Gaza strip since the beginning of the war, and the numbers cannot be checked independently. The Israeli army recently spoke of around 20,000 Hamas terrorists killed.