Middle East Eye – Aug 12, 2025
The massively popular Irish band U2’s lengthy statement on Israel’s war on Gaza on Sunday has triggered widespread backlash on social media and has been dubbed “billionaire pacifism”.
In the statement, all four members of the band shared their individual views on Gaza, touching upon an array of issues such as Israel’s starvation of Gaza, the blocking of humanitarian aid and the potential military takeover of the enclave by Israel.
The band’s statement starts with the phrase, “We are not experts in the politics of the region, but we want our audience to know where we each stand.”
Lead singer Bono’s (Paul David Hewson) own statement spans from “The rape, murder, and abduction of Israelis at the Nova music festival was evil” to “I also understood that Hamas are not the Palestinian people.”
Bono’s statement repeats Israel’s often-repeated “right to self-defence justification and echoes the same debunked claims Israel makes about Hamas using civilians as human shields. He also added that “Benjamin Netanyahu today deserves our categorical and unequivocal condemnation”, which many on social media have criticised as “word soup”.
U2’s Gaza statement is billionaire pacifism, weeping into your champagne as you cash cheques from a genocide. Your ‘moral clarity’ stops where your wallet begins. Bono et al…until you ditch Live Nation and denounce your donors, you’re just laundering blood money through a… https://t.co/13j4o7Yp25
— Mark Jones (@markjonescp) August 11, 2025
Others criticised U2’s statement for their opening claim that they are not “experts in the politics in the region”, though they made public statements about Ukraine and the Ukrainian people “for all of us who love freedom”, two months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
On Gaza – Everyone has long been horrified by what is unfolding in Gaza – but the blocking of humanitarian aid and now plans for a military takeover of Gaza City has taken the conflict into uncharted territory. We are not experts in the politics of the region, but we want our… pic.twitter.com/jybXZiC4P2
— U2 (@U2) August 10, 2025
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.
On Gaza – Everyone has long been horrified by what is unfolding in Gaza – but the blocking of humanitarian aid and now plans for a military takeover of Gaza City has taken the conflict into uncharted territory. We are not experts in the politics of the region, but we want our… pic.twitter.com/jybXZiC4P2
— U2 (@U2) August 10, 2025
Some on social media, uninterested in Mullen’s statement on Gaza in general, expressed their confusion as to why he felt he had to share his thoughts on this issue.
This was a general sentiment towards the entirety of the statement by many social media users, saying that the band, specifically Bono, was a “fraud” and has no issue staying “out of politics when it suits him”.
I could not give an absolute fuck what U2 have to say about Gaza. Those shills have been dripping in Israeli blood money since day dot.
Bono can “stay out of politics” when it suits him, while he’s filling his pockets. He’s a gutless poser and a fraud.
— Carlito’s Way stan account (@Oh_Deer_Diner) August 11, 2025
This is not the first time Bono has come under scrutiny for what critics say is selective humanitarianism, with satirical comedy show South Park taking aim at him in More Crap, the 9th episode of season 11.
The Edge (David Howell Evans), lead guitarist of the band, criticised Netanyahu’s Likud party for its plan to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza and the occupied West Bank to make way for a “Greater Israel.” If the end game is this, “that is not peace-it is dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and, according to many legal scholars, colonial genocide,” he said.
Some on social media said that Mullen’s statement was the only one openly and directly addressing Israel’s assaults on Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, which several countries, as well as many international rights groups and experts, now qualify as an act of genocide. Over 61,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war started in October 2023, most of them women and children.
Many also said that even though they grew up listening to the band, they would not follow or listen to their songs anymore, simply because they root for “war criminals and imperialism”.
From the pushing of drug culture and multiracialism to the green agenda, ‘pop’ culture has always been a tool of the elite, wittingly or otherwise.
RUMP WORRIED ABOUT COLLAPSE OF THE UK
A Trump administration report has accused the UK of backsliding on human rights over the past year, citing increased migrant gang violence
child rapes and growing restrictions on free speech.
You are not allowed now to criticise israeli genocides
The annual US State Department assessment, which analyses human rights conditions worldwide, flagged what it described as
“serious restrictions” on UK persons freedoms and freedom of expression in the UK.
America was appalled at the Lucy Connoly incident
“The government sometimes took credible steps to identify and punish officials who spoke out and thereby committed human rights abuses,
but prosecution and punishment for such abuses was inconsistent,” the report read.
“Bono, was a “fraud” and has no issue staying “out of politics when it suits him”.”
Bozo, oh I do mean Bono, ( how remiss of me LOL ) is an over-blown “performer” and the three U2 “musicians” are grossly overrated. That twat the hEdge couldn’t play dominoes – never mind a guitar. Whoever actually came up with the “songs” it was Brian Eno who produced the stuff not those U2 twats.
Apparently this Bozo once said that he would like to bring every African child to Ireland !!!! Sounds very jew to me.
But like so many in popular “culture” Bozo is a pied piper and is simply playing it’s owners tune.
you have to admit it was prey clever of the jews to allow in a small amount of food
then when palestinians crept out from the rubble to go get it
they were shot
brilliant stroke !
More in their line if these clowns spoke out about the turd world invasion that is sweeping Ireland at the moment at least it might wake the sheeple up.
Bono is about as popular in Ireland as pork at a Jewish wedding.
He seems not smart enough to understand that the Hamas attack was allowed to happen, most likely instigated by IDF agents, so that they have an excuse for this murderous genocidal takeover of the whole Gaza Strip…
I can’t stand this piece of shit and his useless shit band, if anything I’d love to beat him so badly he’d never sing again. The Wanker came down to New Zealand and told us to give the Niggers in Africa money, when he never weighed in with any of his money and why should we give blacks any money when they wouldn’t know what to do with it apart from using it to light fires lolol.
HAMAS ARE PALESTINIANS !
atrocities did only the terrorist state israel by
opening friendly hellfire on their own citizens
because they were only leftist kibuzims for
the zionist rightist rulers . HANNIBAL directive .
bombing Gaza, hospitals. refugees in tents ,
sharpshooting civilians all are criminal israeli
terrorist acts . jew rulers are known to sacrifice
their own people . they did it already in 2nd worldwar !
This goes back to the definition of Charity; Celebrities and Fraudsters standing
in front of a Disaster.
Much of what they say is true – but only when it is convenient to say it.
The fact that their long time manager is a member of the Guinness family raises a few questions.
Also let’s not forget that Hamas was created by Israel’s Mossad back in the late 80’s.
An old Roman trick – send in agents provocateurs to stir up trouble, to which you then have the excuse to send in the military.
Rinse and Repeat.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/3NUcztCd6GNl
Is this video I have just watched still up?
I sent link to a friend and got a 404.
This is a good way to find out.
Video still up…
I see, not up if you post link by phone.
Censored…
Bono, he’s been irrelevant for a long time.
But let’s not write him off or U2 they might come good.
Cretin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does bono not read, listen or look?
What is his knowledge of history and indeed that israel is an illegal state ( britain had no right to issue the balfour declaration being given the mandate to administer paLestine after the defeat of the ottoman empire circa 1945 only). . Does he not understand genocide when he says it? The Oslo accords was signed by Rabin in 2000 recognising a two state solution. He was assassinated the accords subsequently nullified by netanyahu. The march 7 break out by hamas was known by the israelis and allowed to happen. Most of the killings of israelis at that time was done and confirmed by the idf.
This is more evidence showing that most people when it comes to political and moral issues are not at all guided by the facts, but either by equally vacuous people or manipulative ones who make noises and give off signals pleasing them, with no real effort to find out what is really going on. If they do but the facts go against the group think then they run away from them into their little houses and board up their doors, like during Covid, lest they hear anymore disturbing news.
The ruling class knows this. It has been at the game of democracy for a long time. Celebrities expert or promoted in one field are trotted out to parrot opinions in matters in which they are as personally ignorant as the rest of us. However, if they have a following then their followers will be sure to follow them into all of their lies.
Politics is generally as crooked as a race track in which the trusting crowds are oblivious to how most of the races are fixed. Unless you have the “inside track” you do not know which horses are “going to run”. The horses going to run are those which have been “needled” but “cleared” in the testing such that although the muscles are ready to run the drug has been substantially “cleared” from the blook such that the horse is not “struck” from the race. It is usually the needled horse in the paddock which is jumpy and a little over energetic which is going to run, and in which the insiders or the agents place their bets. In politics the owners and trainers needle their steeds with all sorts of dope and doe, while at the same time they dope and dupe the crowds to accept any outcome they want.
Never liked U2, and Bono is THE rock star puppet of the criminal psychopathic “elite” parasites…and isn’t he a WEF supporter, a globalist? Talk about “toeing the new world order line”! No one does it better than Bono!
Bobo and the rest of them have always been sell outs to the establishment, there is a price for fame
Bono is simply a tool of the left posing as a music artist. He is as confused as any other woke idiot out there. He uses his self promoting platform to issue word salads and pacifism to appease his handlers. And please lose the ugly glasses.
U2 Are one of the worst groups to ever of been bono sings like the guy of police academy with the horrible voice and speaking as an actual guitarist i can tell you the hat wearing bald guy can not play guitar that well at all. But main point is bono is a dirty fake no mark who is obviously is a nonce like the rest of the shower of shite
Danny you truly are a paedophile with you vile comments and after this i will never respond to your attention seeking pointless comments ever again
F*ck that guy. Boner deserves to be stripped naked, what’s left of his teeth bashed down his throat, his tongue nailed to a tree stump, his kneecaps shattered, a giant rubber fist jack-hammered up his poop-chute, then coated with tar and feathers…all while his bandmates are forced to watch, while people scream in their ears, “YOU’RE NEXT, AAAAAAASSHOOOOLE!”
getting the jimmy saville look..
What a poet, this guy Bono has a nose that is taking over that face. It’s loud.
Who is Bono?
What else would one expect from a 1993 graduate of the WEF Global Leaders for Tomorrow program.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/WEF/Global_Leaders_for_Tomorrow/1993
prob mates with that other talentless streak of shite (((Geldorf))) – whos now re-appearing to “condemn” the starving of children in Gaza..(try not to vomit)
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=Geldof+speaks+out+against+gaza+starvation&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:fb6c153e,vid:HzUtUUDpGX4,st:0
prob just using the issue to make a media comeback to make money..
these fake liberal kikes (Finkelstein, Mate, Pappe etc) want all the gazans dead too but are scared they will be targeted in the coming pogroms…motivated by pure self-preservation
Shilling for the Khazarian Mafia seems so typical these days, U2 is but a puppet desiring to remain on KM’s payroll, but the commoners have caught on to this pandering wokeness. The destruction of the Irish people has been a long time in the making, and Palestine is no different.
This is in response to https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=300476 Israel to close Dublin embassy after Ireland supports ICJ genocide petition by tts-admin | Dec 16, 2024.
Eustace Mullins, in his book History of the Jews, quoted a speech by Rabbi Rabinovitch in Budapest forty years ago, which shows clearly what the intentions of the Jewish Bankers are: “Mixing the dark with the white means an end of the White man….. thus the White Race will disappear and our most dangerous enemy will become only a memory”.
This is contrary to a charge G-d gave Noah, not contained in the KM’s lie called the Noahide Laws:
The Irish, the Palestinian and the Iranian were all created in G-d’s image. The unjustified pre-emptive murdering of these by the current perpetrators who are committing these acts of murder need to be brought to justice.
Moreso, the Irish Christians are the apple of G-d’s eye along with the Palestinian Christians, of whom the Christian Zionist John Hagee has no love for along with the Iranians, whom he desires their destruction. He too is to be numbered with the SynaGOGue of Satan. His Christians United for Israel (CUFI) funded millions to provide for Aliya of Soviet Jewry from Russia to to Israel.
Thus he like ancient Judah prefers Barabbas over Jesus, having sold his soul over to extreme wealth, 7,600 acre Texas ranch with many choice facilities to include motel, a private airfield with 2 business class jet aeroplanes. John Hagee’s master is Satan.