British and Irish governments condemn the alleged comments

The British government has condemned the alleged comments by the Rap Knecap group as “completely unacceptable” and suggested that they should not be able to receive government funding.

Kemi Badenoch conservative leader blocked a government grant to the bilingual Belfast group while she was a business secretaryBut the decision was canceled.

Video sequences emerged from the group during a concert in November 2023, where one of the members of the group seems to say: “The only good curator is a dead curator. Kill your local deputy”.

A spokesman for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he did not think that “individuals expressing these opinions should receive government funding”.

The ball joint declared on social networks that they had “faced a coordinated smear campaign”.

Images are evaluated by Terrorism control police And Badenoch called for prosecution.

Metropolitan police said they were asking this and another video from last year, where images He seemed to show a member of the group by shouting “Up Hamas, Up Hezbollah” during a performance in London.

Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micháel Martin called on the trio to “clarify urgent” comments.

Hamas and Hezbollah are prohibited in the United Kingdom and it is a crime to express their support for them.

None of the joint members have been accused of crimes.

In Dublin on Monday, Taoiseach said: “They have, or they support Hamas and Hezbollah because it would be unacceptable.

“I mean Hezbollah is responsible, in my opinion, for the Murder of Sean Rooney.

“And Hamas and Hezbollah have opinions that are absolutely … not only opinions, but participated in terrorist activities and a terrible murder of innocent people, as evidenced on October 7.

“But it is not clear to me that they do it, that the balloon supports Hezbollah and Hamas. It has been said that they made comments to support both. I think they have to clarify this urgently.”

He said there was an “huge responsibility” with regard to the security of public representatives.

“I think it is important that freedom of expression is always facilitated and the ability to express themselves and criticize and condemn the policies of others. All of this is legitimate. But in terms of people’s life, security and security, it is a different problem,” he added.

Last year, the ball joint won a discrimination against the British government after Badenoch withdrew the arts funding for the group, in a decision that was deemed “illegal”.

Ball joint received £ 14,250 – the same amount that they were initially granted.

Badenoch, speaking on a local electoral campaign visit to Lincolnshire, said that the declaration was “disgusting” and that the group “should be prosecuted” and that “people are in prison for having sent tweets that are not going so far”.

She said they “should not glorify terrorism” and are “anti-British”.

The Minister of the Northern Ireland Economy, Caoimhe Archibald, told BBC News or that she did not agree with what had been said, but that the patella is “a group that was very vocal on questions that are important to them like Gaza”.

“I think that the most scandalous problem that the world is confronted today is the continuous genocide that we see in Palestine and the bombardment that continues daily, the blocking of aid, the slaughter of innocent women and children and I think it is our goal as an international community to end that,” she added.

DUP chief Gavin Robinson said the ball joint had become a “hatefest”.

The deputy for East Belfast said that the group’s position was “appalling and scandalous” and said that there was a collective political will in London and Dublin to “call” their comments.

“These gentlemen do not need to be on a stage, they must be in a courtroom because it is a crime of hatred what they do,” he added.

The deputy of the Alliance, Sian Mulholland, said that the alleged comments of the patella “cross a line of art as a tool for protest and incentive”.

She described the political opinions of the rap group on the conflict in Gaza as “valid” however, Mulholland said that the group’s opinions were “undermined and overshadowed” by the actions of the group.

Scottish Prime Minister John Swinney supported calls for the slowdown of the Glasgow TRSMT music festival this summer.

Speaking at the Congress of Scottish Unions in Dundee, John Swinney said that the group’s alleged comments had “crossed a line” and were “beyond the pale”.

There was also a call from a Labor MP for the group to be removed from the programming of the Glastonbury Festival in June.

The group is listed to play this year’s festival on Saturday.

In a letter to Sir Michael Eavis, co-creator of the festival, David Taylor said that it would be “deeply disturbing” to see the group occur at the event.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for a German concert promoter and producer of events, FKP GmbH, said that the ball joint “will not occur at the Hurricane or Southside festival this year” in the country.

Monday, the daughter of a conservative deputy who was Handed to death during a district operation said that the rap group should apologize.

Katie Amess, whose father Sir David Amess was a deputy when he was murdered in 2021, said that she was “out of the stupidity of someone or a group of people in the eyes of the public and saying such dangerous and violent rhetoric”.

Ms. Amess said that she would be ready to meet flaps and have a conversation with them.

“If they are ready to listen to how my life has been erased and will never be the same again, for them to say that these words are obviously very triggered,” she said.

Last week, television personality Sharon Osbourne said the group should revoke its American work visas After finishing their set in Coachella, an annual music festival in California, with pro-Palestinian messages.

Ms. Osbourne said that the patella “had brought her performance to a different level by incorporating aggressive political statements.”

When asked by BBC News or for an answer, the group said: “The statements are not aggressive, the murder of 20,000 children is however.”