Kneecap Banned From Canada After Accusation of Supporting Terrorist Groups: ‘We Will Not Accept It’

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The trio said it plans to writer to Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his "wholly untrue and profoundly malicious" comments.

Mo Chara, DJ Próvaí and Móglaí Bap of Kneecap execute onstage during a performance astatine OVO Arena Wembley connected September 18, 2025 successful London, England.

Irish rap trio Kneecap has been banned from entering Canada, with the authorities accusing the radical of allegedly promoting unit and hatred and supporting violent groups.

In a video posted to his X account connected Friday (Sept. 19), Canadian MP Vince Gasparro — who besides serves arsenic a parliamentary caput for combatting transgression — said that the radical “made statements that are contrary to Canadian values and laws that person caused heavy alarm to our government.” In the caption to his video, Gasparro added that the authorities “will not tolerate the advocating of governmental violence, coercion oregon Anti-Semitism and hatred much broadly,” and deemed the radical “ineligible” to participate Canada.

Kneecap has go known successful caller years for its animated unrecorded shows, successful which the set regularly speaks retired against the warfare successful Gaza and delivers pro-Palestinian messages from the stage. The radical regularly calls Israel’s actions against the Palestinian radical “genocide”; a caller United Nations committee of inquiry agreed that Israel is committing genocide successful Gaza.

In a connection posted to its Instagram, the set — made up of members Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí — repudiated Gasparro’s claims, calling the politician’s connection “wholly untrue and profoundly malicious,” and that “we volition not judge it.” The members said that they volition beryllium seeking ineligible enactment against Gasparro. “We volition beryllium relentless successful defending ourselves against baseless accusations to soundlessness our absorption to genocide being committed by Israel,” the connection read. “When we bushed you successful court, which we will, we volition donate each cent to assistance immoderate of the thousands of kid amputees successful Gaza.”

The quality comes conscionable earlier Kneecap was acceptable to execute a drawstring of shows passim Canada successful October. In a 2nd connection addressed to Canadian fans, Kneecap apologized to fans for the band’s shows being canceled, but added that “we volition not beryllium silenced and volition ever reason genocide.” The set besides urged fans to “use your voices successful Canada — basal up and talk out.”

In August, Kneecap canceled its upcoming shows successful the United States owed to an impending tribunal day successful London, wherever Chara is owed to support himself against charges of supporting violent groups including Hamas and Hezbollah. In the band’s connection to fans astatine the time, the radical apologized for the inconvenience, but told them to support an oculus retired for “something precise peculiar for U.S. fans.”

Watch Gasparro’s video and work Kneecap’s effect below: