After the entire civilised world has called out Israel's forced “mass starvation” of Palestinians U2 suddenly find their voice, U2 have finally issued a statement and shared a lengthy post on their website clarifying the band members’ individual stances on Israel and Gaza. https://www.u2.com/news/title/on-gaza/ calling for peace in Gaza after two years of genocide, starvation, and the systematic erasure of Palestinian and have finally condemned the Israeli government for starving Gazans as a ‘weapon of war’ and however bad you expected it to be I guarantee you it’s far worse than you can ever bloody imagine.
Bono works his way through pretty much every pro-genocide Israeli talking point while pretending to care about Palestinians. He spends paragraphs on October 7, mentions the word “Hamas” 14 times, falsely claims “Hamas are using starvation as a weapon in the war,” says “Hamas had deliberately positioned themselves under civilian targets, having tunneled their way from school to mosque to hospital,” babbles about the 1988 Hamas charter while ignoring its 2017 revisions, blames the whole thing on Netanyahu, and of course mentions “Israel’s right to exist.” I seriously think he hit every major hasbara talking point. I don’t think he missed a single one. It’s genocide propaganda disguised as humanitarianism.
U2’s statement came on the same day Israel killed prominent Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh in a drone strike on a press tent near al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. The strike also took the lives of Al Jazeera staff Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa, as well as freelance journalist Mohammed al-Khalidi.
After Bono’s statement, perhaps the one that received the most backlash was the statement by Larry Mullen Jr, the drummer of the band. He said that after the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel, Israel's response was expected.
"After those attacks, the total obliteration of Hamas was called for by Israel and its allies and was expected." Many on social media expressed outrage at these words, hinting that Israel’s war on Gaza started well before 7 October 2023.
Despite since the 1980s, U2 being vocal in its support for human rights group Amnesty International and the band and its then manager Paul McGuinness being given Amnesty’s annual “ambassador of conscience” award in 2005 .
Bono/U2's image as humanitarian activists has been cooked by Gaza, they've been exposed as contemptable hypocrites, rushing of the perform in Kiev for NATO, but silence on genocide, this was a desperate attempt to save themselves, they've only made it worse.
Every member of U2 has up to now been an apologist for the genocide of the Palestinian people and the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank, U2 perform regularly in Israel and have been blind to apartheid. U2 could have made a statement the minute bombs began to level every building and every hospital in Gaza and indiscriminately decimate the civilians in them.
Waiting two years to publish this is pure cover your arse territory and just reveals them to be dreadful hypocrites. Oh well nothing much changed there then, Bono the sanctimonious twat has been completely silent since the Genocide began. Any statements issued after 2023 feel less like conviction and more like empty pretenses. By condemning the October 7 attacks without acknowledging the decades of occupation, apartheid, torture, imprisonment and murder that preceded it U2 have appeared to side with Israel.
U2 and, especially its lead singer Bono have long displayed double standards. Bono has defended and personally benefited from tax exemptions for the super rich, while masquerading as a campaigner against poverty. And despite writing “Bullet the Blue Sky” a protest song against militarism and the arms industry Bono has lavished praise on Shimon Peres, the deceased Israeli politician who helped introduce nuclear weapons to the Middle East and who ordered massacres in Lebanon.
Bono has for years made a fortune from Israeli investments. And when U2 live-streamed its North American tour via a trendy new app, the firm behind it was Israeli company Meerkat, who just so happen to supply the Israeli military machine. An Israeli bank also gave him a loan worth $45 million for the purchase of The Clarence, which is co-owned by Bono and The Edge.
Bono and U2 are not credible advocates of human rights and don't have a miniscule of moral brevity, Whenever I hear U2's music , I think of their silence as the genocide took place in Gaza and in the world of fucking execrable liberals who have failed to speak out for two years of a genocide, U2 are truly the most fucking contemptible.
Their fealty to the Genocidal State of Israel is pathetic as are their attempts to remain relevant. Their hollow ‘statement’ is smeared in the blood of all those who’ve been subjected to Israeli terror.
These shills have been dripping in Israeli blood money since day dot. U2 isn’t a rock band of any value just a money-spinning corporation that celebrates its own tax evasion with largesse about human rights and injustice. The U2 Corporation celebrates awards for its services to capitalism and imperialism. Bono is a gutless poser and a fraud who makes me physically sick. In the name of love and humanity, fuck off Bono.
