If someone pulled on a Ku Klux Klan hood and went up on a stage and shouted ‘Up the KKK!’, what would you think of that person? Call me a literalist but I’d think that person supports the KKK. I would interpret his donning of the pointy hood and his singing of the KKK’s praises as fandom for that monstrous movement. No one gets into a KKK cloak by accident.
Kneecap expect us to believe that even though they’ve waved the Hezbollah flag, they don’t actually support Hezbollah
And yet Kneecap expect us to believe that even though they’ve waved the Hezbollah flag and hollered ‘Up Hezbollah!’, they don’t actually support Hezbollah. Even though one of them posed with a book of speeches by Hezbollah’s late leader – a book that refers to Jews as ‘apes and pigs’ – they’re not Hezbollah fans. ‘We do not, and have never, supported Hamas or Hezbollah’, said the Belfast rappers in a statement last night.
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