Kneecap on stage at Coachella earlier this monthThe members of Kneecap have claimed they have been the centre of a “coordinated smear campaign” since their much-discussed appearance at the Coachella music festival.Earlier this month, the West Belfast rap trio performed at Coachella, where they made an impassioned display of solidarity with Palestine amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza.During the second week of the festival, they projected messages like “fuck Israel, free Palestine”, and led the Coachella crowd in a chant of “free Palestine”.Meanwhile, band member Mo Chara also said: “The Irish not so long ago were persecuted at the hands of the Brits, but we were never bombed from the fucking skies with nowhere to go.“The Palestinian