I join Amnesty International in condemning #Eurovision and call everyone with a conscience not to watch it.
BIG THANK YOU to the 5 countries who withdrew from the competition:
Iceland!
Ireland!
Netherlands!
Slovenia!
Spain!
Put Apartheid out of our lives.
Bravo J.M. Coetzee! BRAVO. The most searing parts of Coetzee's rejection letter "..the state of Israel has been conducting a campaign of genocide in Gaza, that is disproportionate to the murderous provocations of October 7 - a genocide that has received enthusiastic support from most of the Israeli public.....it is impossible for any part of Israeli society....to claim it does not share in the guilt for the atrocities in Gaza...." AND "The process of cleansing Israel's name and establishing it in the international community would take many years if it is interested in that at all." BRAVO. They (Israel 🙄 Duh!) can't shut the whole world up. Speak up. Don't fold. The nonchalance, the cold-heartedness of even hosting international literary festivals, whilst bombing civilians and non-combatants, babies, it is dark and grotesque.
🇺🇸🇮🇱 Journalist Ana Kasparian read the most damning report on Israel's prisons:
“Sexual torture is organized state policy, endorsed by the highest authorities.
Women are raped for days.
Men are raped by dogs.
Fire extinguisher nozzles are inserted into bodies.”
WARNING!
I frankly do not know what kind of evil and inhumanity this video depicts, but it shakes you to the core.
It appears a dead Palestinian man, probably murdered, is lying on the street, and a group of Israelis essentially torture his body while laughing. They slowly run him over with their, going back and forth over his body.
No words.
Watch this clip in full. @ZackPolanski is one of the most impressive British politicians in a long, long time. He he runs rings around Trevor Phillips, on the issue of both free speech and criticizing Israel. Eloquent, informed, principled, passionate.
The British Museum has removed the word Palestine from displays about the ancient Middle East following “concerns” by a UK-based Israeli advocacy group.
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@DropSiteNews I wonder why European states and EU institutions never have the time to go after the State whose officials speak genocidal language, order genocidal policies and are accused of genocidal acts. A good number of them are busy protecting that State. And the others?
Israel has just murdered 26 people in Gaza, among them 3 young children.
There is no ceasefire - just continuous brutal oppression and death.
All supported by the UK/EU/US
Where’s Trump's board of Peace?
Israel has just bombed a camp sheltering displaced people in a safe zone.
Children killed.
This violates Article 52 of Additional Protocol (I) Geneva Conventions, but international law clearly doesn't apply to Israel.
Not sure the magnitude of this is fully understood: Israel has wiped out 2,700 families in Gaza, leaving 6,000+ people as the sole survivors of entire bloodlines. This is the result of deliberate policy, pursued with full knowledge of its effects. This is not war. It is genocide.
The demolition of UNRWA's premises is the symbol of what Israel is doing to the UN with full impunity.
I call on:
➡️the Secretary General to request that the General Assembly convene a special session to decide way forward
↗️States to cut ties with Israel without further delay.