Mick Clifford: Bono blasted over Gaza — but was his silence actually a moral choice?

Bono’s Gaza response drew fierce backlash, but his decades of activism on Aids and poverty tell a more complicated story

Bono may well have concluded it was best to keep his own counsel rather than anger Trump’s administration. Picture: Doug Peters/PA

Here’s a line that will most likely elicit some derision: Maybe Bono is entitled to be cut a little slack.

Last week, the singer and his U2 bandmates released individual statements about the genocide in Gaza.