“They Won’t Stop Us From Speaking Out”
Kneecap talks to Jacobin about attempts to punish the hip-hop trio for its vocal stance on Palestine and its hopes for a unified Ireland.
Glastonbury Festival attendees hold aloft Welsh and Irish flags at a Kneecap performance. Presumably some are supporters of a unified Ireland, like Kneecap’s own members. (Samir Hussein / WireImage)
By the time Kneecap’s second album, Fine Art, and their self-titled film broke them out beyond Belfast in 2024, the Irish-language hip-hop trio had already built a reputation for gleeful provocation. But 2025 turned provocation into political confrontation. After denouncing Israel’s war in Gaza as a genocide on major festival stages, Kneecap faced revoked US […]
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