According to Mo Chara, British police showed a hezbollah flag in Lebanon during a concert.
A member of the Irish rap group Knecap was accused of an offense to “terrorism” in the United Kingdom for waving a flag of the Armed group Armed Hezbollah during a concert in November 2024 in London.
Liam O’hanna, whose stage name is Mo Chara, should appear before the Westminster Court of First Instance in London on June 18, charged under the Terrorism Act, British police announced on Wednesday.
The ball joint was expressed in its support for the Palestinian cause since the attacks of Hamas led by October 7, 2023 and the devastating war of Israel against Gaza, assimilating the difficulties of the Irish under British colonial domination to that of the Palestinians living under the occupation and the Israeli seat.
Pro-Palestinian songs are a regular element of their concerts. The group says it was the target of a defamation campaign to call the genocidal war of Israel.
PRUTULE DECLARATION:
Since our statements in Coachella – exhibiting the current genocide against the Palestinian people – we have faced a coordinated smear campaign.
For more than a year, we have used our shows to call the complicity of British and Irish governments in war crimes. … pic.twitter.com/mbojb5qbop
– Broader (@Kneecapceol) April 25, 2025
The Belfast Trio is also well known for its political and satirical words and the use of symbolism associated with the Irish republican movement, which seeks to unite in Northern Ireland, which is currently part of the United Kingdom, with the Republic of Ireland.
More than 3,600 people were killed in three decades of violence in Northern Ireland during the “troubles” involving the Irish Republican Army (IRA), pro-British loyalist militias and British security forces.
The ball joints takes its name from a brutal punishment, which involved being shot in the ball joints, which was imposed by paramilitary groups to informants and drug traffickers.
The group was congratulated to invigorate the Irish -language cultural scene in Northern Ireland, where language status remains a disputed political question in a society that is still divided between Protestant British trade unionists and Catholic Irish nationalist communities.
He was also criticized for the words responsible for explanive and drug references.
The ball joint was the subject of a meticulous examination and criticisms last month during their performance at the Coachella music festival in California when they projected the words “F *** Israel. Free Palestine ”. On stage.
“The Irish not so long ago were persecuted by the British, but we have never been bombed from the sky F ****** with nowhere where to go! The Palestinians have nowhere to go – it is their F ******* at home and that they call it from the sky. If you don’t call it a genocide what F *** calls? Read the words projected by Mo Chara.
The ball joint suffered a meticulous examination at the beginning of this month when the United Kingdom Intelligence said they would investigate the comments made by the rap group on the United Kingdom and the Middle East policy.
They were reported to the police on images of a concert in 2024 in which a member of the group seemed to say: “The only good curator is a dead curator. Kill your local deputy.” Images of another concert in 2023, seem to show a member of the shouting trio “Up Hamas, Up Hezbollah” – the United Kingdom both considers “terrorist” organizations.
In response, the kneecap said that it had “never supported Hamas or Hezbollah” and accused of “establishment figures” of getting out of the comments of their context to “make moral hysteria” due to the criticism of the Israel attacks against the Palestinians in Gaza.
Several ball joint concerts were canceled following the controversy, and some British legislators called the organizers of the Glastonbury Festival in June to remove a performance provided by the group.
