"I don't pick sides" is a fallacy when there's a massive power imbalance and a clear aggressor. If your husband is abusing your child and you do nothing, you're not neutral in that scenario, and when your kid grows up you'll probably be blamed as much as the father.
A modern military force hammering a giant concentration camp full of colonized people using high-tech weapons of mass murder with the help of your tax dollars is not a "war" that you get to be "neutral" towards. It's a genocide, and you're either for it or against it. There is no comfortable third option where you get to avoid picking a side and also avoid looking like an asshole.
The Israel lobby may control the billionaire stadium owners. They don't control the artists. Or the people.
Resistance to genocide is unstoppable.
Free Palestine.
BREAKING: Ed Sheeran's "LOOP” US tour has lost its three remaining opening acts – FINNEAS, Lukas Graham, and Aaron Rowe – after they withdrew Tuesday in the wake of Macklemore being removed from the lineup over his pro-Palestine remarks.
Sheeran's own backing band, Beoga, has also announced it is leaving the tour.
On social media, FINNEAS wrote, “Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed … I stand with Palestine and its people.”
Aaron Rowe noted in his statement, “I cannot stand by and allow billionaires to use their position of power to silence the rightful voices of those who speak up against Israeli genocide and who highlight the savage murder of children.”
Beoga wrote, “We are Irish people who understand colonialism. As founding members of the Irish Artists for Palestine Movement, we are committed activists for justice and will continue to be.”
Lukas Graham stated, “It’s hard to watch families in other parts of the world burying the people they love … Money doesn’t give you the right to own the conversation.”
Love seeing the other opening acts pull out from the Ed Sheeran concert line up, in solidarity with Palestine and opposing the repression of @macklemore. This is how it’s done. I wasn’t alive to see the international solidarity boycotts that ended South African apartheid, but this feels monumental towards the direction of ending apartheid and genocide in Palestine. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸
Si bloquean a Macklemore de las giras de Ed Sheeran por pedir una "Palestina Libre". Porque no le damos más fama a este temazo que sacó en 2024 para denunciar el holocausto Palestino?
Israeli legal exceptionalism produces remarkable contradictions in Canadian foreign policy. Canada fulfills its international legal obligations when it is politically advantageous to do so. But when the Israeli military is at the centre of the issue, Canada refuses to uphold the rule of law.
Article 6(3) of the Arms Trade Treaty requires Canada to not authorize conventional arms transfers to a receiving party if at the time of the authorization Canada is aware that "the arms or items would be used in the commission of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, attacks directed against civilian objects or civilians protected as such, or other war crimes as defined by international agreements to which it is a Party."
Canada imposes a comprehensive sanctions regime on Russia, with a two-way arms embargo covering every sector of the arms trade being one of its central features. This prohibits persons in Canada and Canadians abroad from exporting arms and related material to Russia. It also prohibits the provision of any services to Russia which would bolster Russia’s military capacity.
Yet despite the Gaza genocide, countless atrocities perpetrated by the Israeli armed forces, and the ICC investigation into Israel's international crimes, no such sanctions are applied to Israeli arms manufacturers or other individuals or entities involved in the arms trade. In fact, Canadian companies continue to supply parts to Elbit Systems - Israel's largest arms manufacturer.
The shameless liar @markjcarney allowed the child-murderer Netanyahu to pass through Canadian airspace three times while the Israeli war criminal was under ICC indictment. Carney has helped to undermine the ICC.
Reporter: "Are you serious about arresting Netanyahu?"
Mamdani: "100%. Yes."
Reporter: "Trump said he won’t."
Mamdani: "He has a warrant for war crimes. Trump may protect him. I won't."
I am profoundly alarmed by the ongoing inhumane treatment of Dr Abu Safiya and other healthcare workers illegally detained in Israeli prisons. Canada must immediately advocate for his release!
IDF officers laughing as little Gazan toddlers shake with their legs blown off. Israelis shooting a 4-year-old girl in the street and mocking her brother for trying to save her.
This is why they bought big corporate media, social media influencers, and Tik Tok.
They kept authentic footage from Gaza hidden from Evangelical Christian America and flooded the media and social platforms with fake propaganda showing “See! Everything is fine over there!”
They knew that if any Jesus-loving Christian saw the truth and the reality of the horrors in Gaza, they would know this is not a “chosen” people by God but an extension of the satanic kingdom.
The Jesus I serve loves the little children. Christian America was lied to and deceived. America needs an exorcism from the demon called Israel.