Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap have had several Several upcoming concerts in Germany canceled after the band’s controversial “fuck Israel” message displayed on the screen during their Coachella set, along with resurfaced videos from a Kneecap concert where the band called to kill members of parliament.

Last week, the German music festivals Hurricane and Southside, organized by Fkp Scorpio, appeared to remove Kneecap from the festival lineups without explanation. The band confirmed in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that the group “will not be performing at Hurricane or Southside Festival this year,” instead pointing fans to three headline concerts in Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg slated for early September. But as of Wednesday, the ticket pages for the concerts state those shows have been nixed as well.

Some of Kneecap’s Israel-Palestine statements could be considered hate speech under some interpretations of German law. For example, in some German states including Berlin,...