British government fails yet another Palestine prosecution as Kneecap man goes free

The wins for Palestine activists and advocates keep stacking up. Yesterday, the Westminster Magistrates’ Court threw out an appeal by British government which, again, has failed to criminalise Kneecap rapper Mo Chara for holding a bit of cloth. A final decision on whether Óg Ó hAnnaidh – the rapper’s real name – will stand trial on 26 September has not been reached.

Three-nil to Kneecap

“Three-nil to Kneecap,” the rapper announced to a crowd of supporters outside the court. This is the latest legal victory in a series of significant rulings issued in favour of Palestine Action, six of their activists, and BDS Belfast campaigners – against the British state.

The ‘controversial’ cloth the West Belfast man allegedly unfurled at a gig in 2024 was the flag of the proscribed group Hezbollah. A judge initially threw out the case against the Kneecap rapper in September 2025, based on a technical failure of the prosecution. For ‘summary only’ offences – namely minor crimes heard before a magistrate – the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) must authorise cases to proceed within six months of the alleged offence – a deadline which had passed in this case.

However, since Britain is a country that doesn’t understand what free speech is, waving the wrong sort of flag can get you done under anti-terror laws. In such cases the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and Attorney General must give their consent to proceed. The Attorney General didn’t do this within the six month timeframe. Consequently, the case was rendered null.

Justice system proves it can count to six

Seems pretty open and shut. However, such is the Zionist-bought Labour government’s determination to go after anything vaguely anti-genocide. They decided to expose themselves to further embarrassment by appealing.

That resulted in Wednesday’s High Court ruling. Lord Justice Edis and Mr Justice Linden ruled that Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring had been correct in his initial September 2025 decision. In their judgement, as they said:

It follows that no written charge was issued within 6 months of 21 September 2025 and the judge was right to hold that he had no jurisdiction to try any summary only offence alleged to have been committed on that date.

In other words, the government was too late to hand its homework in. The justices did not investigate why the government made this cock-up. Today’s ruling represents the third occasion in which Kneecap have defeated attempts by the war criminals of the Labour party to criminalise them.

In June 2025, the Metropolitan Police dropped their plans to charge Mo Chara for 2023 comments in which he called, in jest, for people to “kill your local MP”.

In an Instagram post following their latest win, the band said:

Get in!!!!!!

Kneecap: 3
Brit Govt: 0

The worlds biggest terrorists are the leaders of the British state.

Free Palestine
Free the 6 counties

They celebrated the win with a press event at Conway Mill in West Belfast, a former mill now used mainly to support local artistic, cultural, and political work.

Mo Chara – No one in that court thinks I’m a terrorist

Speaking about the legal handling of his case, Ó hAnnaidh said:

This entire process was never about me, never about any threat to the public and never about terrorism… it was always about Palestine.

Your attempts to label me a terrorist have failed because I was right and, yet again, Britain was wrong.

He told Al Jazeera:

There wasn’t one prosecutor or one individual in that courtroom that thinks I’m a terrorist.

Kneecap disappointingly disavowed support for Hamas and Hezbollah when under peak legacy media pressure. Both are unjustly proscribed under Britain’s absurd so-called anti-terror laws. The group went on the record saying:

We do not, and have never, supported Hamas or Hezbollah.

He asked:

What pressure is the British government being put under. From where? Is it from America, is it from Israeli lobbyists? Why are they pursuing this so hard?

Needless to say, these are rhetorical questions.

A ‘vassal’ of the US

Britain is a vassal state of the US empire, an already pseudo-democracy made even more so by the fact that its 70 million people have their will overridden by Washington.

Even minor acts of independence are quickly followed by acquiescence to US power. Starmer pushed back slightly against British involvement in the latest torrent of American war crimes in Iran, only to join in pretty quickly thereafter.

The government is also bought off by Zionist money, with huge numbers of MPs taking cash from Labour Friends of Israel. That has been partly responsible for Britain’s enthusiastic participation in the Zionist entity’s holocaust in Gaza.

These are the reasons why they’ve pursued lawfare against those repulsed by British crimes. Crimes committed using British people’s taxes, then followed up with a legal assault using the same pool of money, which could be better spent on healthcare and education.

The force Mo Chara allegedly backed, Hezbollah, are attempting to impose a cost on so-called ‘Israel’ for its latest display of barbarism in Iran.

In response, the land thieves have engaged in further mass murder in Lebanon. They have killed over 500 people since the start of the Iran assault, and displaced 100,000.

It is this horror that the British government is backing, proving they are the real terrorists, no matter how many failed prosecutions they deploy to try and invert this truth.

Featured image via the Canary