The personality of TV Sharon Osborne calls for American work visas to be revoked from the North Irish Hip-Hop Band after the band to make the anti-Israel messages part of their coachella performance.
On April 18, the Kneecap trio, based in Belfast, projected three pro-palestines phrases on a screen behind at the end of the second set at the California Music Festival, BBC reported.
The first message read “Israel is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people,” according to the BBC. It was followed by “the United States Government is enabled that it had an armament and financing Israel despite its war crimes”, and finally and the most controversial, “F *** Israel. Palestine free.”
Kneecap “brought his performance to a different level by incorporating aggressive political statements”, Osborne wrote on Instagram Tuesday.
“This behavior proposes concerns about the adequacy of their participation in such a festival and shows that they are reserved for interpreting in the USA,” he wrote.
In response to Osborne’s critique shared with Rolling Stone MagazineKneecap member Mo Chara said that the band has been out of their support for the Palestinian people since its inception in 2017.
“We believe that we have an obligation to use our platform when we can raise the Palestine problem, and it was important for us to speak in Coachella, as the United States is the main funder and weapons supplier in Israel while committing genocide in Gaza,” he told the magazine. “As I said from the stage,” the United States government could stop the genocide tomorrow. “
The United State Department of State in general does not comment on specific cases of visa due to the privacy and confidentiality of the visa, said in a statement to the BBC.
However, above all, the Department also stated that when it is considered revocations, “it analyzes the information that occurs after the visa that may indicate an ineligible visa potential under the United States immigration laws, represent a threat to public safety or other situations in which revocation is justified.”
Osborne criticized Goldenvoice, coachella organizers, for allowing Knecap to play a second set at the festival. If they were not aware of the band’s intention to show political messages before the first set, they should have been later, he argued. The fact that Goldenvoice allowed Knecap to perform “suggests the support of his rhetoric and the lack of due diligence,” said Osborne.
During the first performance of Kneecap Coachella, the band planned to include pro-palestine messages, but its whole was reduced, Chara told Rolling Stone.
“It’s not strange, big companies don’t like to hear the truth unless they adapt to their narrative and pocket,” he said.
Osborne is both from the Irish Catholic heritage and Ashkenazi, so he “understands the complexities” involved in the subject of Israel-Palestine, wrote in Instagram’s publication.
But during the second set of Knecap Coachella, Chara drew parallels between the history of the Irish and Palestinians, the BBC reported.
“The Irish not so long ago were persecuted at the hands of the British, but they never bombed us from … sky with nowhere.
At the end of the set, people could listen to singing “Free Palestine”, reported the BBC.
“The people who sang” Free Palestine “in Coachella were a message of solidarity for the people of Gaza of the North -regular Americans who want to end genocide, despite the weapons and funding of the government,” Chara told Rolling Stone.