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The only good point is a bad point.
These little people are backtracking.
Backtracking. We don't
support amas. Give me a break. I'm
Jewish myself and I fully support Ncap's
freedom of speech. They should be able
to say whatever that they want, but
freedom of speech doesn't also mean
freedom from consequence. I think this
100% clout chasing. It's no different
than all the other artists. the McLemore
and all these other people. We're
playing a game as if the media and the
news has all been on Israel's side.
That's just not what I see. We have have
seen a consistent blurring of the lines
between free speech and the promotion of
terror. A rap group's lyrics about
genocide are causing more outrage than
the genocide itself. Burning entire
families intense. That is violent and
aggressive. children to Jews. Your love
did that to Jews.
Irish rappers knecap are the darlings of
social media with a slew of awards and
celebrity fans. But it's their fire
brand politics currently dominating
global headlines. A recent performance
at Coachella was accompanied by big
screen projections condemning what the
band called Israeli war crimes and
genocide in Gaza. They were dropped by
their US visa sponsor, forcing them to
cancel several US tour dates. And now to
fire with some outrageous statements in
past performances.
[Applause]
[Music]
The only good is a
dead. Well, Nikap have apologized and
clarified that it does not support Hamas
or Hezbollah, even though we literally
just heard them shouting up Hamas and up
Hezbollah, which is a clear sign of
public support. But more high-profile
shows have been cancelled and British
MPs lined up this week to demand that
they drop from the upcoming Glastonbury
Festival with Summer. The Conservative
leader says they should be prosecuted.
Well, since nobody's defending their
comments, including the band themselves,
the question is whether they should be
cancelled. They are, after all,
following a very long line of
performative provocators and filling
venues with lots of strange people who
like them. Here to discuss all this is
hip- hop commentator, host of Vlad TV,
DJ Vlad, the American Israel rapper
Nissim Black, journalist Ahmed Elden,
who is of Palestinian descent, and well,
great to see Sharon. Sharon, my old
friend from America's Got Talent. Uh, we
go back a long way. Let me start with
you, Sharon, because you went to
Coachella and you wrote this on X. I Oh,
were you there? I wasn't there. I just
thought, "No, I saw their performance."
Got it. Uh, that was enough. So, you saw
the performance and you tweeted this on
X. The band openly supports terrorist
organizations after witnessing their
performance during the first weekend,
allowing them to perform again the
following weekend suggests support of
their rhetoric and a lack of due
diligence. The this behavior raises
concerns about the appropriateness of
their participation in such a festival
and shows they are booked to play in the
USA. And it it does seem extraordinary,
Sharon, when you see the clip of them
literally shrieking up Hamas and up
Hezbollah, which is a clear public
expression of support in front of
thousands of people uh about where their
allegiance lie, which is to terrorist
groups. It's it's unbelievable to me
that after that that hadn't emerged and
they were free to play in Coachella.
Oh, please, please don't get me started.
And now these little people are
backtracking. Backtracking. We don't
support Hazbalah Hamas. Give me a break.
Give me a break. They were chanting it
at the festival. And my whole stance is
have your own belief politically.
Couldn't give a damn what you believe
in, but don't bring it to a music
festival where there's peace. Music
unites people. Music doesn't separate
people. And as far as their manager, is
he here? No, he bottled it. He was
supposed to come on, but he's bottled
it. The manager.
Well, I think he did himself a favor
because you can tell there's not much
out there. Anyway,
um it's it's it's just all insane that
this should be allowed to continue where
there are young people, okay, drinking,
doing whatever they want to do. It's
their business, but don't try and incite
Yeah. violence with the fist, with their
attitude. Their whole attitude is one of
anger. It's not of peace. It's not
trying to, you know, put your point
across and they should follow the
masters who are you too. You know, Bono
goes on, he talks about Palestine. He
does it in peace. He He's pro Palestine.
That's his opinion, Bono. God bless him.
But he does it in such a way that it
doesn't incite violence from a crowd.
And if anybody knows about festival
crowds, it's me. Yeah. My entire life.
And so, you know, it's just ignorance.
They're trying to sell more of their
music. It's part of it, you know, that's
that's the thing. And they're also sure
they've got very strong Go on. Well, as
I say there, I'm going to come to what
they said about the the members of
parliament in the UK when they said, you
know, go and kill go and kill your local
MP. Two British members of parliament
have actually been murdered in the last
10 years. I know. You know, one woman,
one man. And and it's a despicable thing
to say. Anyway, never mind before we get
to their open support for Hamas and
Hezbollah. What really irked me was
their long statement they put out
yesterday. Uh they want you to believe
words are more harmful than genocide.
Well, yeah. Actually, if you tell people
to go and murder MPs, that is actually
despicably harmful rhetoric. Um
secularis, let us be unequivocal. We do
not and have never supported Hamas or
Hezbollah. We condemn all attacks on
civilians always. It's never okay. That
is a complete lie. They
literally in November 2024. So literally
what four months ago in Kentishtown in
London they were seen chanting up a mass
up his ba. So Sharon apart from anything
else they're just liars and they're
lying to now try and save save their
careers because America are not going to
let them back in with these with with
this footage out there.
And what a great decision. There's
enough problems. We don't need in
America this coming in. They're
uneducated. When was the last time they
went to the Middle East? They're using
cliche slogans. Nothing they are saying
is original. They're not bringing
anything to the table. Nothing except
anger. Yeah, that's what they're
bringing. They their manager had the
audacity to say that people were
thanking them for bringing this to their
attention. Now you'd have to be deaf,
dumb or blind living in America, not
know what's going on in the Middle East.
Yeah, exactly. Well, we got a clip of
that manager if you're not interested.
Yeah. Well, let's play a clip from that
manager of kept Daniel Lambe. He
appeared on Irish television last night
actually to talk about this.
I think the first thing I'd like to say
and I'll address those now is that the
last few days have been very challenging
and to the massive credit of the three
lads and it's something that hasn't been
said at no point have they had any
concern for their own income for their
own careers for their own futures and at
every point they have the absolute
conviction that they are doing the right
thing and they stand on the right side
of history and that that should be said
in terms of this you know we said a
video emerged the video didn't emerge h
there was a concerted campaign emanating
from the US to analyze every single
thing that Ncap have ever said in seven
years of performances they've gigged
hundreds of thousands of people in about
20 countries hundreds of gigs and why
this happened and you mentioned at the
intro is around what they said at
Coachella and what they said at
Coachella was the right thing to say
it's something that we've said at Leeds
Reading at Glastenbury we've said it in
Dublin and Belfast and what it is is a
message aimed at governments who are
enabling the genocide in Gaza and what
really really scared the state of Israel
and what led to this campaign is the
reaction of young people in America if
you were to look at like dozens of
comedians globally and you were to take
the script of their comedy act and
remove six six words from a comedy act
and then lay it out in a headline and
say that this was dangerous. You could
do that to dozens of people. This was a
concerted campaign and the aim of this
campaign is really important. It's not
about kneecap. This has nothing to do
with kneecap or something that Ncap may
or may not have said and it's solely
about deplatforming artists. It's about
telling the next young band both through
the music industry and through the
political class that you cannot speak
about Palestine. Now, DJ Vlad, it seems
to me he's conflating two issues there.
They're perfectly entitled to have their
view on what is going on in Gaza. I've
expressed my own view many times. My
view has evolved over the period of the
war. Um, everyone's entitled to their
view. That's the whole point of free
speech, not at least in America with the
First Amendment protection, of course.
Um, but that's not what they they were
found to have done. they were actively
publicly supporting terrorist
organizations, prescribed terror
organizations
um who if you tried to say you did that
on a visa application form to get into
the United States, you would be barred
from coming in. So to me, it's not
really a free speech issue once you get
into publicly supporting Hamas and Hisba
after October the 7th in particular when
when you're blatantly supporting
terrorism. I why is that a free speech
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Well, look, I'm Jewish myself and I
fully support Ncap's freedom of speech.
They should be able to say whatever that
they want. But freedom of speech doesn't
also mean freedom from consequence,
right? So ultimately, if they want to
say what they say, they need to deal
with the consequences of of what they
say. And if there's certain countries or
venues that don't agree with their
stance, then that's the consequences
that they'll have to deal with. Uh they
also posted a picture on X of a Star of
David with a swashika intertwined in it.
So ultimately, um you know, they can't
be cancelled everywhere. They have fans.
You know, maybe when Kanye goes on tour,
they could open up for him. Uh but
ultimately there's going to be certain
venues that just disagree with their
stance and the support of Hamas and
terrorist organizations and so forth
goes along with that. Ultimately I don't
always agree with what Israel has said.
You know I said in the the whole war I
feel that both sides have faults in
them. But ultimately if you want to take
a proterrorist stance, if you want to
take a pro-Nazi stance, just deal with
the consequences and don't backtrack
after the fact. Yeah. Uh Ahmed Elden,
you're a Palestinian commentator. I've
had a lot of Palestinian guests on this
show uh since October the 7th. We've had
some very lively, passionate debates,
and I I will always platform people to
say what they want to say, but I always
ask most of the guests I've had on um
you know, do they condemn Hamas? It's
become a sort of running thing which
people have mocked me for. But the
reason I ask it is I think if you don't
condemn what Hamas did on October the
7th, I find it very hard to stomach
anything you then want to say about
anything else. um because it should be
condemned by everybody. Um here you have
a group from Ireland who are publicly
endorsing Hamas post October the 7th.
Why shouldn't people be outraged by
that?
Well, peers, I appreciate the way you
framed the question, but I want to take
a moment to In Britain today, a rap
group's lyrics about
genocide are causing more outrage than
the genocide itself. I mean, Sharon
talks about kneecap inciting violence
with the fist, but we're completely so
far 10 minutes into the segment ignoring
the actual extreme violence Israel is
using in Gaza every single day, burning
entire families intense. That is violent
and aggressive killing children on a
daily basis. You're not did that to
Jews.
You're talking about what the police did
to the Jews, are you?
Pierce, kneecap is under investigation,
not because they incited violence, but
because they dared to do what I just
did, call out Israel's mass killing of
children, its military occupation. And
in other words, they're giving voice to
a generation. Well, hang on. Okay, but
hang on. Hang on. Gas lit. Hang on a
second. Crime. Hang on. Hang on. Hang
on. Hang on. Hang on. Sharon, let me ask
one question. Would you then endorse the
the the the sentence up Hamas, up
Hezbollah? Do you believe that is is
okay? I don't know. I I
I wonder when you ask me this, if I were
to flip it to you or Sharon, would you
support hail Israel or support Israel
when Israel is murdering children very
violently on a daily I haven't said that
anyway is killing I'm asking you the
same question you asked not Israelis no
here's my here's my point do I think do
I think that if your question is do I
think if if your question is do I think
that the people in Gaza have a right to
resist genocide, ethnic cleansing, and
occupation. Yes, but but Pierce. No,
hang on. Well, that's interesting. Well,
that's interesting, Akmate. Let me ask
you just to clarify that. Does that mean
you think that October the 7th was an
act of resistance and therefore
justified?
Well, I I don't know. What was October
8th? Well, let me ask you about October
the 7th. Don't play what about just just
answer directly. Serious. I'm not Why
are we Why are we talking about October
the 7th? I thought I was here to talk
about kneecap. Can I just I'm not
because you're the one who you're the
one who decided to move it with respect
to you into a wider context about
whether people would condemn what Israel
has done. So I'm just saying to you
Yeah. But I'm just a I'm just saying to
you, would you condemn what Hamas did on
October the 7th or not? Of course. Of of
course I would condemn the killing of
innocent civilians, but that's not what
we're here to talk about. I mean,
Pierce, what Britain? You literally just
talked about it.
But Pierce, what is Britain's message to
its youth? Let's talk about that. If you
speak out against the genocidal regime,
if you condemn it, they're going to
threaten you, censor you, and jail you.
But if you participate in genocide, what
you can still perform. I have no problem
with people criticizing Israel's
government for the the way they've
executed this war. I've done it myself
many times. I've no that is free speech.
That's what free speech is about. Where
I have a problem Amed, where I have a
problem and you're trying to dive around
this. The reason that kneecap are in
trouble has got nothing to do with them
just criticizing Israel and got
everything to do with the clips that
came out after their Coachella
performance when people discovered that
only in November four months ago they
chanted up Hamas up Hezbollah supporting
and that's and that whether I support
that or not Pierce what I'm saying is
irrelevant to the discussion. I think we
can agree on this. It's not irrelevant.
It's obviously completely irrelevant to
the discussion. No it's not. Let me tell
you why it's not. Let me just give me a
chance. The whole point of a discussion
if you just wouldn't interrupt me the
way you let Sharon talk for a little
bit. I mean, the UK media and political
class have spent 72 hours scrambling not
to condemn Israel's starvation siege,
not to prevent weapons from reaching a
government that is committing genocide,
that is bombing children, killing them
daily, ripping them to shreds, and it's
all being documented. But they're trying
to ban a band from festivals, from
Spotify. And what have they chosen to
ignore? I mean, Israel has now blocked
every single truck of food, water, fuel,
and medicine from entering Gaza for 60
days. The US, like the US, like many
world powers, are enabling the violation
of international law, aggression,
violence, daily violence that is
unprecedented according to not just
NOS's. I mean, they're ignoring you. All
right, but just to be clear, look, just
to be clear, just to be clear, hang on.
You can't just keep talking, Akmed. With
respect, I hear you. You made your point
forcefully, but just to be clear then,
you do not have a problem with what
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My position is I don't have a problem
with them supporting anyone they want to
support because that's under free speech
protected with no accountability.
What about Israel's accountability? You
want us to stop playing what about I'm
asking you specifically. I am here as a
guest, as a journalist, as someone who
is a former professor at Colombia. There
are people being jailed and disappeared
off the streets for speech. They are
being held accountable in a way that
Israel has managed to evade. Well,
actually, they're being held
accountable. Sorry. Sorry. They're
actually being held accountable for
harassing Jewish students, barricading
them into rooms, making sure they
couldn't attend making sure they
couldn't go to lectures. Sorry, they
were harassing the Jewish students. Do
you think that it's right to hold those
people accountable and yet not hold
Israeli leaders who have an ISIS? If you
want to go after Israeli leaders, if you
want to go after Israeli leaders or
Israeli soldiers that have war crimes
and war crimes, I have called for
Netanyahu. I have a question. No, you
can't. I'm asking the questions. I'm
asking the questions. It is about I'm
asking the questions. It's my show.
That's how it works. I've called for
Netany and Yahoo to go. I think there
are some right-wing headbangers in his
cabinet who should go too. I think the
war has gone on way too long. I think
the amount of civilian death is
unacceptable. I think of all these
things. I say them publicly on a regular
basis. Okay. But I'm afraid that the
debate here is about whether this band
should be allowed to continue performing
in America uh where they are publicly
supporting uh terror groups. And and at
the moment you don't want to answer
that. All you want to do is keep saying
is keep saying, "But what about the
Israelis?" Give me a chance. The violent
rhetoric can be problematic. But it is
far less problematic than the violence
we are witnessing every day. And so if
we're here to talk about whether
kneecaps should be held accountable, I'm
simply
positing is it more of a priority for
any society, any civilized
societ for the
daily if you made the point and you made
it forcefully and I respect that. That's
fine. Let me bring in Nissen Black.
You're an Orthodox Jew. You're a rapper.
What do you feel about this?
I feel, you know, first off, beers, I
should say, I don't know how qualified
since I've only been a resident white
colonizer for the last nine years or so.
Uh, but I think this 100% clout chasing.
It's no different than all the other
artists, the McLemore and all these
other people who are trying to look,
we're we're playing a game as if I don't
know what everybody else has been
watching, but we're playing a game as if
the media and the news has all been on
Israel's side and everything's backing
Israel. That's just not what I see
personally. So what's actually going on
is that it's more
popular Hamas. It's more popular to
support all these terrorist groups.
You're not really sacrificing anything.
You're just only going into what the
rest of the crowd is. So all of this is
garbage. These guys definitely and this
here here's a very important point. When
people say something bad about another
people or group, usually you could get a
laugh or two after that. When Jews start
getting talked about, it leads to
actionable items. violence, uh, not
allowing students to go into their
class, it leads to a a rise, a ma a
crazy rise in stat statistically and
anti-semitism inside of America. So once
you say something about this particular
group, it's it's very interesting how
something actually starts to happen as
opposed to when other people make all
different type of things and stereotyp
stereotypical things about other groups
and when it's said about Jews, then all
of a sudden there's some actual violence
that happens. So the this is 100% cloud
chasing. There are uh some odd 50 odd
conflicts that's going on in the world.
Even more than that I think that the
Americans are reporting. Why is this one
on every single airway? Everybody's
talking about this particular because
it's a genocide. 0.2. No, listen. Way
more. This a genocide compared to what
happened in Syria? Is this a genocide
compared to what's happened in Yemen?
Syria was not a genocide. There's a
specific definition of genocide under
Jewish. I could say this. Hold on. Uh
Ahmed. Uh, I can say this, we watched
this five years ago with the Black Lives
Matter movement. Look at how the world
was in chaos, right, over over black on
white-on-black violence, which was a
very, very small amount of cases, but
black-on-black violence, nobody cared.
So, 500 uh thousand Arabs can die at the
hands of other Arabs. And by the way,
the number one leading uh murder of
Arabs are Arabs. Just just to put that
out there. I'm sorry. As an Arab who is
Palestinian, I need to just say I know I
I need to just
say and then all of a sudden this is
what it is. The broad stroke that you're
using with all due respect to talk about
Arabs as if Syrians and and what's
happening in Palestine, what happened in
Syria was a civil war. What's happening
in Palestine is colonization, is land
grabs, is annexation, is ethnic
cleansing, and it's been happening for
decades. That has not been happening in
Syria for decades. What happened and
what we're discussing did not start on
October 7th. Pierce, the media, Pierce,
Pierce, the British media is currently
dissecting these videos, the ones that,
you know, completely ignoring uh Israeli
snipers blowing out children. I mean,
there was a 250 page UN report
documenting how Israel's elite
sharpshooters deliberately targeted
children, medics, journalists, and
continue to do so. Presumably, though,
presumably Okay, presumably finished.
Zoom with me. All right. Okay. Ame, let
me ask you this.
Amed, stop talking for a moment. Amed,
let me just ask you, Amemed, would you
like to directly tell Hamas right now to
release all the Israeli hostages?
No, I wouldn't. Of course. Of course.
So, there's a massive double standard at
the heart of your debate. There's a
massive double standard. You don't care
how Jewish people get treated. You only
care. You only care how Palestinians get
treated. If if babies and Holocaust
survivors get kidnapped and taken into
hell tunnels, you don't care. You don't
care. Here's Did you bring me on to give
Hamas political advice or did you give
me on? Because what I would say to you
if if you think that it's wrong for me
not to suggest to Hamas that they should
release the hostages are you aware there
are tens of thousand there are thousands
and thousands of hostages including what
I'm aware of being held
in being raised I'm aware of is that you
have an absolute in Akmed with respect
to you you have an absolute amed with
respect you have an a chronic inability
to answer any straightforward question
without immediately playing what about
but what you hang on hang on Israel is
to the people in
Gaza talking on stage stop talking what
you revealed in your last answer when
you said you would not tell Hamas to
release the hostages was very telling
and everyone watching will find that
very telling in other words you don't
care about anything Hamas has done to
those Israelis and Jews I think what
it's fine it's fine you can have that
position You've revealed that position.
You want to bring me here to do that.
Well done. You know what? I brought you
here to debate, Nikap. All you've done
is say I shouldn't be talking about a
band. Let me bring
in another guest. I find it so I'm
bringing I know you do. You want to just
keep talking and run the entire debate.
That's fine. We're not doing that. I
want to bring in Lee Trink, who's a
former president of Capital Records.
Lee, thank you for joining me. Um you
wrote a very powerful piece in the wake
of all this uh called setting the stage
for hate kneecap and Coachella's
collapse of conscience and in it you
wrote let's be clear this isn't about
artistic freedom I'm a first amendment
near absolutist it's about enabling hate
speech so just explain why you reached
that conclusion
well uh well thanks for having me on you
know first of all the the first
amendment so I am I'm a I'm a first
amendment absolutist it has nothing to
do with with freedom of of expression Um
what the what the first amendment covers
is it guarantees uh free speech from
government censorship. But the US
immigration law it it has really strict
conditions on work visas. And when
kneecap has had a a consistent history
of glorifying Hamas and Hezbollah,
supporting them, promoting them from the
stage, they disqualify themselves from
from the ability to have a work visa.
when when you know I I I directed that
to the owners of Coachella and for me
the problem there was you know for
decades they carefully curated this
incredible brand and what they did was
and and you know we gave them the heads
up they had the heads up that kneecap
has had these persistent problems and
they let them into their sacred space.
My commentary about them is not about
the expression of what they did on
stage. Now I disagree vehemently. I
think it's a categoric lie. What they
say about genocide, what Ahmed said
about genocide is is
categorically the fact that it's not
multiple including
the many. Let him speak since October
7th. But anyway, my point my point
is anyone else except for me. You've
done more talking than everybody else
put
together. Allow people to speak. Did you
interrupt? Please stop talking, Akmed. I
will bring you back in if you just
respectfully allow people to finish
their point.
Coachella has the ability to say we are
not going going to allow a band that
stands for everything that is against
the principles of Coachella, the
principles of America, of what what has
allowed them to build this incredible
festival brand. and they are permitted
to say, "Sorry, those violate our
ideals, our principles." That's
Coachella's right to do that. I think
they made a a an egregious mistake by
ignoring kneecap's persistent history in
glorifying glorifying extremism and and
terror. And that's their they they
should have they should have stopped
that. They didn't. And it's important,
it was important for me to to to
highlight that because I think one of
the big problems that's happened here is
we have have seen a consistent blurring
of the lines between free speech and the
promotion of terror. We see it with
kneecap, right? You know, it's it's it's
very convenient for Akmed to to to talk
about what he what what he's saying and
it's only about free speech, but it's
not. it. They crossed the line into
promoting terror. And that same
conflation of the issue has happened in
our college campuses. And we are
normalizing that crossing that threshold
over excuse me with with we are we are
normalizing the promotion of terror. And
we are masking that excuse me we are
masking that in uh we are pretending
that that is a free speech issue and
it's not. Free speech has a number of
boundaries correct where we say it
crosses that threshold and they've
passed it here and one of them is
inciting hatred and and violence.
Sharon, you know, the irony of all this
is that one of the most egregious things
that Hamas did on October the 7th where
3,000 of their terrorists poured over
the border into Israel and basically
killed every Jewish person they could
find and get their hands on. is that one
of the worst massacres they committed,
in fact the worst massacre in terms of
total people who were killed was the
music festival. And you know there were
young people enjoying a music festival.
I mean the irony of a band from Ireland,
right, going to Coachella, one of the
world's most favorite famous music
festivals with with their track record
of only four months ago saying up Hamas.
In other words, we support the group
that destroyed young people's lives at a
music festival like this. I found that
one of the most shocking things about
this. And I find their lying, their
weasly statement afterwards, you know,
apologizing to apologizing to the Amos
and Cox families who were the families
of the British members of Parliament who
were assassinated. We never intended to
cause you hurt. Really? You literally
told your crowd to go and murder their
MP, right? The only good Tory is a dead
Tory was one of their other statements
and then said, "We never ever supported
Hamas." When we literally have just
watched the clip of them supporting
Hamas and then going to a music festival
knowing knowing you support the terror
group who destroyed music festival goers
lives. It it's the type of gaslight
we've been blame. I blame Coachella.
Coachella were warned. I've know several
people that sent letters way way before
a month ago and they ignored
everybody. Everybody they ignored and
they destroyed something that they built
for years that was beautiful, that was
wonderful. People from all over the
world would go and congregate and they
have destroyed it with one band. They
have destroyed it because that band is
full of hate,
ignorance. They don't know all the
facts. They they just they cliche, you
know, those cliche head headlines. I'm
surprised they didn't use from the river
to the sea, you know, and the genocide.
It's all cliche. Should they be banned
from Glastonbury, Sharon?
Oh my god. I I pray that they are. And
if they're not, shame on Glastenbury
because Glastenbury again is for peace.
It's it's just, you know, idllic for
people who love music and for it to be
destroyed with one pathetic band that
are full of hate is a disgrace. Yeah,
they we're talking we're this is about
the wrong platform to do this. And as I
said before, have your political
beliefs. Doesn't change my world. What
you believe won't change what I feel
inside. But not at a music festival
wrong. The promoters are wrong.
Everybody was wrong to allow this. The
agents, how could you be an agent and
represent this? How could you? Yeah.
Well, let me ask music. Yeah, I agree.
Let me ask DJ Vlad. Um, just finally,
where does this leave Ncap? I mean,
they've never been involved in a
firestorm like this. Everything they've
ever said is now being scoured over by
people examining video footage and so
I'm sure more stuff will come out
because they've obviously been doing
this for years. Um, are they finished as
a band or will there be a kind of
undercurrent of support from them from,
you know, what many would see as
similarly misguided young people who
might go along with this?
No, I don't think they're finished at
all. Uh, ultimately, this is the most
promotion they've ever gotten in their
lives. Um, I've never heard of me up
until No, I haven't either. No, I
haven't. Uh, and they're definitely not
not cancelled. They're not finished. Uh,
they're going to be banned from certain
places, but there are certain people
that do agree with them and they'll get
a lot of support from those places as
well. And like I said, I mean, you have
freedom of speech, but not freedom from
consequences. And ultimately, they're
going to continue to do what they do uh
to their core fan base, just like Kanye
is continuing to do what he does. Trump
continues to do what he does and so
forth. And I I support their right to
say what it is that they say. I support,
you know, I respect what uh Ahmed,
that's your name, correct? Yes. Yeah.
Yes. Ahmed, I support your point of view
as well. I've publicly been on the
Breakfast Club and other platforms and
said that both parties, both Israel and
Palestine, have faults in the way
they've handled this, but Yeah, of
course.
We just don't need to have close
friends. We don't need to
Sorry. Sorry. I'm just saying we they
may have their they may have the the
ability to say what they want and the
freedom to say it. But we in America, we
don't have to grant somebody access to
bring their hateful ideology and import
it into our country. Let them take that,
leave it in Ireland, go somewhere else,
go to Gaza. How about this? Why don't
they do a show in Gaza and let me and
tell me how that goes on or go to the
West Bank and tell me how they're how
wellreceived they are. We don't need to
import their hate into our country. And
the the administration is well within
within their right to to uh revoke a
visa to bar them from entry into the
into this country. And let me ask and
let me ask I agree. And let me ask that
m one question, which is if this was a
uh an Israeli group, right, who were
chanting similar stuff about
Palestinians, do you think they'd be
allowed to perform in Gaza?
No. Exactly. So why should this lot be
allowed to perform? So why should this
lot be allowed to perform in countries
where there where where they're
supporting a prescribed terror group and
that country opposes it? That that's a
fair question. I mean, there's a lot of
hateful rhetoric coming from, you know,
Israeli settlers, Israeli ministers,
Israeli leaders, and then they're
paraded and given a red carpet arrival
in Washington DC and London when they're
calling for Palestinians. He has no
ability to look in the mirror and see
what is the hate. Can I can I just be
given the
same two minutes to make some points
without any accusations or
interruptions? Given you've you've
interrupted everybody else, it's a bit
rich, but yes, go on. No, no, it's a bit
rich. Okay, just give me give me 30 a
minute. The British media, as I said
earlier, is currently dissecting these
videos of kneecap. Okay. While
completely ignoring the actual kneecaps
of Palestinians that Israeli snipers
have been shooting. You made that point.
That's not their jurisdiction. You made
that point. I just thought I was going
to say the point I'm not The point is
that a soldier, guys, a soldier is
bragging on social media about shooting
42 kneecaps. Real kneecaps. Do we have a
segment about that soldier and the
hatred? You know what? I've done
probably, you know, the irony of this.
I've done more coverage I've done more
coverage of the Israel mass war and had
more people on from both sides than any
other show in the world. Right. So, the
idea we haven't the idea I haven't
covered the idea I haven't covered stuff
that's negative to Israel is
Ask if I condemn Hamas. Yeah. Do you
might be but what's also
Do you condemn Hamas or not?
Make a point. Do you condemn? Honestly,
if you don't want me to talk, you're
going to Do you condemn Hamas? Yes or
no?
He won't. He won't do it. Hang on. Hang
on. Hang on. I'm giving him a chance to
respond. Amen. Do you condemn Hamas? Yes
or no? Do you or not? Do you condemn
Israel? Why don't you answer my
question? Do you condemn genocide? Can
you answer my question? Ethnic
cleansing. Will you answer my question?
Will you answer my question? Do you
condemn torture? You won't answer my
question. The only genocide where they
All right, I'm going to leave it there.
The viewers can make their own minds up
on that. Somebody who just won't bring
himself to condemn Hamas. That's fine. I
can condemn Hamas and I can condemn
Netanyahu. That's called being
intellectually honest. Okay. You're not
intellectually honest. Try to make it
seem as if I'm a terrorist because I I
never called you a terrorist. I said,
"Do you condemn a man?" The guest did.
Your guest did well. If you don't if you
refuse to condemn them, people can draw
their own conclusions.
Well, yeah. And if you refuse, like your
guests to condemn the murder of
children, they can also draw their own.
Okay, I'm going to leave it there. It's
a very very spirited debate. Hasbah
stepped outside into the desert. Where
are they now? Exactly. Hamas is hiding
behind people. Yeah, that's why we're
still talking about them today. Hisba
was a much What terrifies the political
class isn't kneecap. It's
accountability. We want to hold
accountable for words. You know what? I
want to hold everybody accountable.
Akmed I want to hold Hamas accountable.
I want to hold the Israeli government
accountable where they commit war crimes
where they commit war crimes. I want to
I want to hold accountable. I want to
hold everybody accountable. I want to
hold all five of you panelists
accountable. I want to hold myself
accountable. I'm checking out. It's uh
nearly 10:00 at night and I'm done with
this. Thank you all very much.
Lovely to see you, Sharon. Victory and
peace to all. Love you.
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