Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), during which more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled and over 400 villages were destroyed to establish the State of Israel.
Israel bombed Lebanon with banned phosphorus munitions, violating Security Council resolution SCR 1701, ceasefire agreement, and international law with absolutely no consequences.
This is another war crime and the International Criminal Court remains silent.
Since Punch has renewed global empathy for baby monkeys:
Indonesia has an industry where people pay to watch baby monkeys get tortured online. Not even tortured to dance or perform. But painfully tortured to death out of sadism.
The footage too gruesome to show. Indonesians pay millions each year to watch baby monkeys drown or be cut open alive online. Some have their hands tied with ants poured on their eyes.
The Indonesian government does not enforce any laws against these torturers. This is despite the macaques monkeys being protected animals under the CITES convention.
Like Punch, all the tortured monkeys are young macaques.
I don't usually post this stuff, I usually post about history and culture. I like showing people the beautiful parts of our world. But I don't feel like I will have another chance to let people know about this, so I will post this knowing that I have a clean conscience.
I hope an effort can be made to put pressure on the Indonesian government and people to enforce CITES and international law protecting endangered animals.
@robinrobbinn multiple times in his secret life! Episode three (0:26) and four (1:30 , 3:50) I know he says it, but there is probably more that I am way too lazy to find the timestamps for LOL
🎙️ | @zaralarsson reveals to Swedish Radio that she declined an offer to perform as interval act at the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest.
“It’s a super big stage, over 100 million people watching, but I didn’t feel like I could go on that stage and stand for those who competed, Israel. It didn’t feel right there and then. […] I’m not sad I declined and I would do it 100 times over.”
to suffer so much and then to stay “but we are not the story” and turning the narrative back to palestinians. greta thunberg you’ll always have my respect