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Kneecap make me ashamed to be Irish

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Kneecap have a thing for fascism with an Islamist twist.

Kanye West gushes over Hitler and Kneceap say Up Hamas ' at a London gig.

But the woke left condemns Kanye 's Hitler fandom as evidence of a disturbed mind.

But it defends the open flirtations with the fascists of Hamas as a brave stand against imperialism.

Kneecap 's flirting with the paraphernalia of Hamas and Hezbollah exposes the rotten heart of Israelophobia .

They embody the tinny self-pity and voguish victimhood of Ireland ’s cultural elites.

They marshall the ghosts of the Famine to the narcissistic end of boosting their own cultural power in contemporary debate.

Instead of making martyrs, we should let them carry on exposing the hatred that lies at the heart of anti-Israel animus.

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Article tone

informal

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English

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43

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offensive

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possibly hateful

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short-lived

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