just a reminder to COMPLETELY boycott Eurovision this year; Azerbaijan and Israel, despite committing genocide, are STILL allowed to compete & have NOT been banned. by refusing to ban both countries, Eurovision is profiting off of the genocide of Palestinians and Armenians.

do not listen to the artists. do not pirate or stream the artists' music, and this applies to ALL the artists who are competing and performing this year. do not listen to the songs on ANY platform, do not give them ANY attention.

write to your broadcasters and tell them you REFUSE to watch the channels until they recognise the Armenian and Palestinian genocides & that you find it disgusting how they are allowing Eurovision despite Azerbaijan and Israel's entries.

do NOT give eurovision OR the competing artists ANYTHING but silence.

boycott ALL of eurovision.

two palestinians from the west bank have died of torture within israeli custody. the number of palestinian prisoners in israeli prison, who are on administrative detention (which means they have not been charged with anything) in june 2023 was 1117, of which 18 were children. the number being held awaiting sentencing was 1158, of which 85 are children.

the number of overall prisoners in israeli prisons in june 2023 was 5,200 most of whom were held on political charges including just being in israel illegally. many are held on false grounds, in inhumane conditions, including minors. they are political prisoners—hostages. since october 7th, that number has doubled to 10,000. so far israel has notified that it has murdered two in its custody. in the west bank (which is not ruled by hamas) over 90 palestinians have been extra-judicially murdered by settlers and the IDF since october 7th.

israel also has a policy of withholding corpses of palestinians who die in its custody. it's called "post-mortem detention." israel says it only has this policy for hamas fighters, but it is not true. there are currently at least 80 corpses of palestinians withheld from families, and around 370 who were either buried in undisclosed locations or kept in the morgue. when they are released, families are given 30 minutes to bury their loved ones in the dead of night, supervised by israeli soldiers with a limited amount of family members in attendance.

For those who want to learn more: There's an organization called Breaking the Silence which keeps detailed records of the human rights abuses and war crimes committed by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF).

Breaking the Silence was started by a group of ex-IDF soldiers who deserted the army out of shame for the atrocities they committed and witnessed. After deserting, they felt compelled to begin documenting the human rights abuses and war crimes they committed against the Palestinians. The hope is for their testimony to be used in front of the International Criminal Court.

For those who would like to read the testimonies of hundreds of ex-IDF soldiers about Gaza specifically, you can do so by clicking here. This particular collection concerns the massacres that happened in Gaza in 2014, but it paints a picture of what life is like in Gaza, and how the IDF soldiers see the people in Gaza.

12 year-old Palestinian boy had a YouTube gaming channel; he hoped for 100,000 subscribers: Awni Eldous was killed with his family in the israeli bombing.

عوني ذو الاثني عشر عاما حلم بمائة ألف متابع على قناته المختصة بالألعاب في يوتيوب، لن يستطيع تحقيق حلمه الآن لأن طائرات الاحتلال قتلته مع كل عائلته خلال استهدافها المدنيين في غزة.

i found awni's channel if anyone would like to subscribe in his memory

in gaza, the indonesian hospital has officially lost power. the ministry of health says they have 48 hours until the rest of the hospitals lose power. this impacts people (children, even) on life support machines. this impacts ~120 newborns in incubators. this impacts patients on dialysis. gaza has been cut off from fuel and aid trucks that could provided much needed fuel have not yet been permitted to cross in.

"Four Colors," 2023, acrylic paint. These are heavily inspired by "Forbidden Colors," by Felix Gonzalez-Torres (read more here). From 1980-1993, the state of Israel banned artwork displaying these four colors together in occupied Palestine.

Love and Revolution. 

Palestinian resistance fighters in Lebanon, 1980.

mahmoud darwish, "a certain song to palestine" (trans. ben bennani)

Recommended reading on Palestine, Israel, and Zionism

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Book 1: Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide by Ben White, foreword by John Dugard

Book 2: Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?: Redefinition and the Myth of the 'Collective Jew' by Antony Lerman

Book 3: An Army Like No Other: How Israel Defence Forces Made A Nation by Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

Book 4: Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State by Jeff Halper

Book 5: Ten Myths About Palestine by Ilan Pappe

Book 6: Palestine: A Socialist Introduction edited by Sumaya Awad and brian bean

Book 7: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

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Verso Books have made Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe free to download.

Get it here.

obsessed with this obviously fake "chemical weapons manual" that the israeli president is claiming hamas militants were caught with. very nice of them to put both a tiny ISIS watermark and 'AL-QAEDA' in english on there just so everyone knows how much they love terrorism and especially the kind of terrorism that scares americans

they should have put a photo of the twin towers exploding with a big cry laugh emoji and a thumbs up next to it just to be safe imo idk if the message is coming across enough

Look at that subtle propaganda. The tasteful islamophobia of it. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark.

Israel is one of the most racist countries in the world.

(source on youtube)

tumblr deleted this video but i redid it with yt this time!

THEY RESTORED THE POST?! LMFAO

VIDEO WAS NUKED AGAIN 😵‍💫 WHAT'S GOING ON?? @staff

RESTORED AGAIN🍿

THEY FUCKING TERMINATED HER

we all knew about tumblr's stance on palestine/israel, constant deletions of photos, posts, suppressing #palestine tags, but now they straight up deleted liza @komsomolka , one of the loudest voices for palestine's liberation... she gave me permission to post this:

fuck israel, fuck america, fuck tumblr, fuck the suppression of the oppressed voices!!!

from the river to the sea, palestine will be free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Ugh, was having a great time mocking my recently imprisoned rival when I noticed the camera positioning makes it so that I appear behind the bars, thus framing me as trapped in a metaphorical prison of the narrative, now my whole day is ruined. Fuck.