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Massive Attack Back Kneecap Amid Coachella Backlash: ‘Gaza Is the Story’

Massive Attack said the backlash and uproar over Kneecap's comments about Israel at Coachella were distracting from 'the real story' in Gaza.

"Solidarity with all artists with the moral courage to speak out against Israeli war crimes, and the ongoing persecution and slaughter of the Palestinian people," the trip-hop pioneers said The trip-hop greats, as they noted in their statement, have long spoken out against what they called Israel’s “illegal occupation, apartheid system, and killing with impunity of thousands of Palestinians.” The group added that, as such, they are “hyper aware of both the human cost of abject political silence, and the commercial implications of publicly expressing solidarity with an oppressed people.” Massive Attack continued, “But do politicians and right-wing journalists strategically concocting moral outrage over the stage uttering of a young punk band, while simultaneously obfuscating or even ignoring a genocide happening in real time (including the killing of journalists in unprecedented numbers) have any right to intimidate festival events into acts of political censorship?

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