Mick Hartley

Exciting updates on Glastonbury:

Glastonbury bosses have declared Kneecap is “welcome” at the festival despite calls for the Irish republican rap group to be banned.

Emily Eavis, the festival’s organiser, said: “Everyone is welcome here,” in response to Sir Keir Starmer calling for the trio to be deplatformed.

Liam O’Hanna, one of the three Kneecap members, appeared in court this month accused of displaying a flag in support of proscribed terrorist organisation Hezbollah at a gig in November last year.

He also allegedly shouted: “Up Hamas, up Hezbollah,”…

Also:

A Palestine Action activist is set to appear as a speaker at Glastonbury Festival.

Francesca Nadin, who described herself as a former “political prisoner” and contributes to the Revolutionary Communist Party website, is listed as a speaker at the festival.

Is there a chance that there'll be mass chants?…"Free Palestine"; "From the river to the sea"; "Globalise the intifada"; "Zios not welcome here". I believe there is.

Remember the Nova festival? Israel, October 2023? Brutality on an almost unimaginable scale…slaughter, rape, abduction. And here we are, at another music festival, celebrating the perpetrators…