Remember how everyone’s favorite real punk John Lydon, aka ‘Johnny Rotten’, slammed terror-supporting hip-hop trio Kneecap? Here’s a recap:
Well, in a recent interview with The Times, he went after them again for their “Death to the IDF” chants:
He finds Bob Vylan, the group who chanted, “Death to the IDF,” at Glastonbury, “rather sad and pointless. That’s just riding on the current wave of leftism, where you don’t have to think any more. You just react with the herd. Moo!” How about Kneecap, the politically charged hip-hop trio from Belfast? “They should follow their own advice [as per their band name].”
If that wasn’t good enough, John doubled down on his support for Israel:
Kneecap campaign for a free Palestine, to which Lydon says: “In total agreement, so long as you free it from Hamas.” He has drawn flak for playing in Israel with PiL. Would he do so again? “Of course. There are human beings in Israel, aren’t there? My attitude about playing in pro-Muslim nations has always been the same too. Why won’t you let us?”
And there you have it: the original punk is doing the most rebellious thing possible: thinking for himself.
