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Former SNP Justice Secretary defends Kneecap over ‘kill your local MP’ comments

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Kenny MacAskill said the Belfast group’s comments had been “taken out of context”

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The former SNP MP and now Alba Party leader said the band was being targeted because it has been outspoken about Israel killing thousands of Palestinians in Gaza.

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MacAskill told the BBC’s Scotcast: “I think it’s a kneejerk reaction to Kneecap, I think it’s utterly pointless.

“The band have issued an apology for what was a throwaway remark some two years ago taken entirely out of context.”

He continued: “People seem outraged about Kneecap having mentioned that throwaway line and yet Britain is facilitating genocide in Gaza, kids are dying by the score on a daily basis.

“I think I know where the real wrong is and the real wrong is what is being perpetrated by Israel, not a remark by the band Kneecap several years ago.”

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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/former-snpjustice-secretary-defends-kneecap-35143758

dizzy: Politicians who facilitate and participate in genocide should expect to be criticised.

UK Labour Party government Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves explain that they are participants and complicit in Israel's Gaza genocide providing Israel with army and air force support. They explain that they don't do gas chambers but do do forced marches, starvation, destroy hospitals, mass-murders of journalists and healthcare workers.
UK Labour Party government Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves explain that they are participants and complicit in Israel’s Gaza genocide providing Israel with army and air force support.
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