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<\/p>\nThe group were interviewed by the Big Issue after it was ruled the rapper, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, will not face a terror trial after being accused of displaying a flag in support of proscribed terror organisation Hezbollah at a gig.<\/p>\n
O hAnnaidh told the magazine: \u201cWhen you start labelling bands and people who speak out against Israel as antisemitic, what you do is water that term down.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not antisemitic.\u201d<\/p>\n
O hAnnaidh also said it was \u201cimpossible\u201d to remember everything that happens during a performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re playing a gig it\u2019s impossible to be perfectly conscious all the time. I don\u2019t remember all \u2013 and that\u2019s not just from drink, that\u2019s pure adrenaline,\u201d he told the Big Issue.<\/p>\n
Band member Moglai Bap said the group is \u201cfrom the north of Ireland\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know about f****** religious conflicts, people using religion as a way to murder, maim and all this stuff,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are against any discrimination in any form.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Kneecap on stage at London\u2019s Finsbury Park last year (PA)<\/p>\n
The alleged offence was said to have taken place at a gig at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, north London, on November 21 2024.<\/p>\n
But the case was thrown out in the UK in September last year, with chief magistrate Paul Goldspring ruling the proceedings were \u201cinstituted unlawfully\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) appealed against the decision at the High Court at a hearing in January, with the rapper opposing the challenge.<\/p>\n
In a judgment last week, two judges at the High Court upheld the decision and dismissed the CPS appeal.<\/p>\n
The full interview can be read in Monday\u2019s Big Issue, on sale from street vendors and online via bigissue.com.<\/p>\n
Graffiti artist 10Foot has created new artwork, which will feature on the cover of the magazine.<\/p>\n
He has also contributed an exclusive print, which will come free with each magazine sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The group were interviewed by the Big Issue after it was ruled the rapper, who performs under the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,898,278],"class_list":["post-354070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}