I think it’s important to remind people that gorillaz cancelled a 2010 performance scheduled for israel (the only one ever scheduled) because IDF soldiers attacked and killed members of a civilian flotilla who were attempting to bring aid to Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel now meets all 10 stages.
A terrifying indictment of so called "western values" that the US/UK/EU has not only supported this but done so with great gusto.
Lighting up buildings and with full media buy in as they did.
Rock Band Enter Shikari on Gaza at the Reading Festival,
"15 years ago I wore a t-shirt on stage with big print which said Free Gaza"
"Back then I was a young man who just learning about this thin strip of land on the eastern Mediterranean"
"I was just learning about a people, the Palestinians, who alongside Jews and Christians have lived there for millena"
"And I was just learning about the state of Israel and how it treated Palestinians as second class citizens, subjecting them to constant intimidation, humiliation, subjugation and forced them to live in what was often described an open air prison - that was 15 years ago"
"We've all seen how f*cking horrific things have got now"
"We've seen the firepower equivalent of six Hiroshina atomic bombs dropped on Gaza in the last two years"
"Ever single school and university destroyed"
"Almost 300 journalists murdered"
"Doctors, killed, maimed, detained"
"Children shot in the head by snipers"
"This is not a tragedy, a national disaster"
"This is a coordinated, mass displacement, mass starvation, an mass murder of the Palestinians in Gaza"
"This is not a tragedy, it is a war crime"
"If you're watching this live streamed genocide on your phone and your heart breaks every day, take strength in knowing you still have your humanity left"
"Enter Shikari would like to express their solidarity with the Jewish people, Muslim, Christian, Atheist, and everyone around the world who demands an end to this atrocity"
"Open the borders and let the aid into Gaza now"
"Stop supporting and arming Israel now"
"Just play music, no politics, play music, no politics. We've had that for 20 years now and we've ignored it. And I'll tell you why"
"To be silent in times of atrocity, is to assist in maintaining that atrocity"
"A great Jewish sage one said: it is not the duty of you alone to heal this world, but you should not refrain from trying"
Israel bombed a hospital.
Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded.
Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV.
Read that again.
Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
I’m sorry.
The notion that Hamas is a terrorist organisation whilst the state of Israel, currently perpetrating genocide, is not, destroys the last disintegrating remnants of credibility western govts had.
This is colonialism, in all its savagery.
My God
Green Beret Anthony Agular recounts how a 5-year-old Palestinian kissed his hands to thank him for the food Agular gave him
Seconds later, Israeli soldiers shot and killed the starving child
ISIS prisoners were treated with more dignity than these children, Agular says
A UN report today said Israel has committed the crime against humanity of EXTERMINATION, but there’s almost no media coverage.
Because why would this be considered newsworthy…
While people point out Greta was on the ship, it needs to be screamed louder that there was also a member of the European Union’s Parliament aboard: Rima Hassan
Israel just kidnapped a foreign government official in international waters on humanitarian aid to a sovereign people.
Incontrovertible evidence is now in. Israel instructs Palestinian civilians to go to particular spots where it then bombs them. Israel has chosen war criminality and it pursues it relentlessly. Equally relentless must be the rest of the world in the pursuit of Israel's leaders
They want us to believe Gary Linekar and the guy from Kneecap are terrorists while we are watching a genocide unfold before our very eyes, live-streamed in 4k
This is devastating. The cruelty is intense. No animal deserves this just so you can have a frothy coffee. Please watch and share and let’s get this cruelty stopped.