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Prominent Irish rap group Kneecap threatens legal action after being barred from entering Canada (www.ctvnews.ca)

submitted 6 days ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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Irish rap group Kneecap says it’s initiating legal action against Toronto MP Vince Gasparro, who said Canada would not allow them to enter the country.

Earlier on Friday, Toronto MP Vince Gasparro revealed the federal government had deemed Kneecap “ineligible” to come to Canada. The trio was scheduled to perform two shows in Toronto, and another two in Vancouver, in October.

“Our government will not tolerate the advocating of political violence, terrorism or Anti-Semitism and hate more broadly,” Gasparro wrote on X Friday.

“The group have amplified political violence and publicly displayed support for terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas,” said Gasparro, who serves as the parliamentary secretary to the secretary of state for combatting crime.

Kneecap responded on Instagram with a letter addressed directly to Gasparro, calling his comments “wholly untrue and deeply malicious.”

“We have today instructed our lawyers to initiate legal action against you. We will be relentless in defending ourselves against baseless accusations to silence our opposition to a genocide being committed by Israel,” reads the letter.

“When we beat you in court, which we will, we will donate every cent to assist some of the thousands of child amputees in Gaza.”

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[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 16 points 6 days ago

"Our government will not tolerate the advocating of political violence, terrorism or Anti-Semitism and hate more broadly," Gasparro wrote on X Friday.

Yet you post on a fascist platform…

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago

I hope Kneecap gets a favourable ruling.

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I hope people remember that the problems in the US are not wholly unique and things that can't happen in other countries. It's another form of american exceptionalism to think that somehow Americans as a group of humans are worse than others. Look to the UK for proof of that. And look at what is happening in Australia and track it out to a longer period of time.

Edit: except for the guns obviously that is a pretty stupid thing here that other countries don't have but it's definitely not the sole problem.

[–] pasdechance@jlai.lu 6 points 6 days ago

And now a bunch of Canadians who have no idea who or what Kneecap is are about to start listening to them. Just like every time they are banned from playing somewhere or banned from radios. Good ol' Streisand Effect.

[–] apenstaartje@lemmy.cafe 8 points 6 days ago

Fascist Canada.

[–] dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

Kneecap were coming to my city soon to perform and I was so excited to see them, but the show was just cancelled as well 😭

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

Politicians are lying to appease some asshole?

Anyway, so when are they playing here? I'll be sure to visit their concert, just because I fucking hate lying politicians

[–] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago

It feels like there's a split in Canadian politics lately. Where are chunk of the liberals and the conservatives want to appease Trump and so they lick Israeli boot. But then there's a subsection that seem to want to push away from all of that.

I say that because certain press releases and other lower level politicians / government employees will word things in ways that certainly feel like they are not okay with what's going on, but then the rest of them are just kinda going with it.

There was a portion of the liberals that were pissed that Carney was trying to meet with the project 2025 people. But also wtf Carney seems to be showing his banker colors. It's a whole mess. Gotta keep putting pressure on them to do the right thing.