After the European Broadcast Union (#EBU) decided not to put the participation of #Israel to #Eurovision 2026 to the votes, #BoycottEurovision is finally becoming a thing.
Boycotting countries so far:
Ireland
Spain
Netherlands
Slovenia
To be decided:
Belgium
Iceland
Eurovision took a brave stance to support the rights of LGBTQ+ minorities in times when they were still denied in their own home countries.
They also took a brave stance by excluding Russia from the festival after it attacked Ukraine.
But they’re failing to take a clear stance against this #genocide, proving their partisanship in the minorities that they decide to support and the aggressors they decide to condemn.
Hence it’s everybody’s duty to ensure that Eurovision 2026 will be about the Israeli music act alone, with no audiences to watch and cheer for them.
Germany, a major Eurovision backer, had signalled it would not take part if Israel was barred. Germany's culture minister Wolfram Weimer told the Bild newspaper he welcomed the decision."Israel belongs to the Eurovision Song Contest like Germany belongs to Europe," he said.
Fucking yes… finally! Thank you, Ireland, Spain, and Netherlands!
“Ireland will not participate in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast on RTÉ, after organiser the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part … Spain’s national broadcaster RTVE and the Netherlands’ AvroTros also announced that they would boycott the contest.”
Maybe we should rename it to the Genocidevision Song Contest?
Ireland will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast on RTÉ, after organiser the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part.
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur, is now facing direct consequences for choosing to stand up for humanity and defend human rights after being sanctioned by the United States.
Her private medical insurance refused to reimburse her solely because she is under US sanctions. Even official engagements have been obstructed: the European Union Parliament invited her for a talk, booked a room for her, and then cancelled it simply because the reservation carried her name.
- Someone trying to help protect the voices of genocide survivors on the fediverse
- Someone denying the existence of genocide survivors and working to get them banned from Mastodon servers
Some Mastodon server admins: “We literally cannot see a difference between the two.”
You wanna know the difference? You already know who you would want with you when you’re faced with a fascist in a dark alley. Unless, of course, that’s the one character you identify with most in this post.
As Long as There Is No Political Horizon for Gaza, 70,000 Dead Will Remain but a Number - Israel News - Haaretz.com archive.ph/9e4pT
"The sense is that the figures reported have lost all ability to describe the scale of the devastation. Since last Friday, 299 names have been added to the list. These are not new victims, but ones whose names were added late, delayed by Gaza's lagging bureaucracy."
From @suzierizzo1 on 🦋 An insider confirms Trump allegedly urged Netanyahu & #Israel not to accept Biden’s Peace Plan in January. This way Trump/#GOP only needed to wait a few more weeks, then accept the same plan so Trump'd get the credit & not Kamala! _____ Me:
Shades of #Election1980. after Carter'd spent months crafting an agreement to release #IranHostages, GOP made a secret deal w/Iran not to release em til after the election they guaranteed Reagan'd win.
80 years after the Nazis were tried for war crimes, the documents are online for all to see The Nuremberg Trials Project is a free and searchable database from Harvard Law School cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/80-ye…
Israel is using existing ceasefire agreements to establish new realities on the ground, projecting itself as the regional hegemon by launching attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank.
Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.
My answer is no.
And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:
• Social Web Foundation (socialwebfoundation.org) partners with, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises Meta
• FOSDEM (fosdem.org/2026) allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises, Google and IBM (Red Hat)
Meta and Google are both surveillance capitalists with strong ties to the Trump regime that is arming and financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. IBM, apart from having helped Nazi Germany carry out the Holocaust, is also singled out by name, alongside Google (Alphabet
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Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.
My answer is no.
And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:
• Social Web Foundation (socialwebfoundation.org) partners with, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises Meta
• FOSDEM (fosdem.org/2026) allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises, Google and IBM (Red Hat)
Meta and Google are both surveillance capitalists with strong ties to the Trump regime that is arming and financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. IBM, apart from having helped Nazi Germany carry out the Holocaust, is also singled out by name, alongside Google (Alphabet, Inc.), as complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people (aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un…).
It shouldn’t be hard for organisations that purport to be alternatives to toxic Big Tech to not be sponsored and affiliated with them. But apparently it is.
Personally, I have no trouble saying no to having my name and legitimacy being used to whitewash these corporations and I have been doing so since the beginning.
I will not stand – literally or metaphorically – in front of their banners and talk about an initiative that tries to help the very people victimised by these corporations in their sociopathic quest for profit at any cost.
I hope more people start doing the same if we are to have any chance of making these corporations with their toxic business models and their complicity in genocide socially unacceptable. If we cannot even meet that already-very-low bar – as long as those of us with legitimacy allow ourselves to be used to normalise them – nothing will change.
Nous manifesterons le 29 novembre à Paris pour la défense des droits du peuple palestinien sur la base du droit international. - Auto-détermination du peuple palestinien qui doit être l'acteur de son propre destin et droit au retour des réfugiés palestiniens - Fin de l'occupation, de la colonisation, de l'apartheid - Sanctions contre Israël - Cessez-le-feu définitif et fin du génocide.
Manifestation nationale unitaire - Samedi 29 Novembre à 14h - Place de la République (Paris).
For the #EpsteinFiles curious among you, I really do recommend you read the man's text messages. Especially the text messages to/from Epstein's bestie #SteveBannon. While you're there you can also read about how Jeffrey Epstein was funding the #bitcoin core development team starting from around 2015 at #MIT (possibly until his death).
Also made some improvements to the Epstein text messages page:
- Deanonymized (with help) as many of the #Epstein emai
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For the #EpsteinFiles curious among you, I really do recommend you read the man's text messages. Especially the text messages to/from Epstein's bestie #SteveBannon. While you're there you can also read about how Jeffrey Epstein was funding the #bitcoin core development team starting from around 2015 at #MIT (possibly until his death).
Also made some improvements to the Epstein text messages page:
- Deanonymized (with help) as many of the #Epstein emails as I could manage based on various kinds of clues, including the signature lines.
- Added an "Other Files" section at the bottom with preview text + links to raw files that are neither emails nor iMessage log files.
- Various other forms of analysis (common signatures, author counts, etc)
i'm really enjoying posting screenshots of Bannon inviting Epstein to the movies on Bannon's insane right wing War Room tweets. his audience Really Does Not Like the fact that the two were so close and communicated so much.
“Farage as a 13-year-old classmate would say ‘Hitler was right’ or ‘gas them’ to him … They could only identify us, because we had to go to this stupid Jewish service in the science labs school. I mean, none of us were remotely religious. They would hang out there. Farage would hang out with his minions. And then they would taunt us as we would leave … He was nasty, there was no question. [The song] Gas ’e
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Your daily reminder that antisemitism and support of the genocidal settler-colonial ideology of Zionism and of Israel are two very separate things.
Case in point, Nigel Farage (Zionist, friend of Israel, denies Israel’s committing genocide in Gaza):
“The level of disrespect, even abuse, that is now being shown to Israel is reaching astonishing proportions.” – Nigel Farage
“Farage as a 13-year-old classmate would say ‘Hitler was right’ or ‘gas them’ to him … They could only identify us, because we had to go to this stupid Jewish service in the science labs school. I mean, none of us were remotely religious. They would hang out there. Farage would hang out with his minions. And then they would taunt us as we would leave … He was nasty, there was no question. [The song] Gas ’em all, I heard him singing it…”
Rain has begun pouring over the Gaza Strip, drenching the already crumbling makeshift tents of displaced families.
Within minutes, tents across the Strip were flooded, further worsening the dire living conditions of those enduring over two years of genocide and displacement.
People in Gaza are starving as israel doing everything in the power to restrict and block entry of high energy food into Gaza.
Even frozen chicken is destroyed because Israel blocking the shipment and forcing the trucks to turn off their freezer and then wait for hours before entering
What life is like for Palestinians from Gaza on centralised, US-based, Big Tech networks like Bluesky (yes, it’s all those things… did something about them make you think otherwise?)
The only flavour of decentralisation there’s no room for at FOSDEM is the kind that won’t speak at a conference that allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes, a surveillance capitalist like Google that is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
Something happened to me recently, and I don't mean to be dramatic, but it's truly a shameful thing. Two days ago, I joined the writing platform #substack & even though @aral & @fabio told me it wasn't a good platform for me, being Palestinian, I decided to interact on it and post my poems there. I was subjected to awful abuse in all verbal forms by Zionists there. But I preferred to remain silent instead of arguing with any fools. Today, the platform’s banned me!
Mehrere Länder – darunter Spanien und Irland – hatten in den vergangenen Monaten mit Blick auf den Gazakrieg mit einem Boykott des ESC 2026 gedroht, sollte Israel teilnehmen.
Eine genau gegenteilige Haltung hatte Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz (CDU) eingenommen. Er drohte mit einem Boykott durch Deutschland, sollte Israel ausgeschlossen werden. Auch Österreich kritisierte die Forderungen nach einem Ausschluss Israels scharf..
Die Abstimmungsregeln für den Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) werden geändert. Das teilte die Europäische Rundfunkunion (EBU) mit. Ziel sei es, Vertrauen und
Die Abstimmungsregeln für den Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) werden geändert. Das teilte die Europäische Rundfunkunion (EBU) mit. Ziel sei es, Vertrauen und
Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.
#Trump said the #US would sell #F35 stealth fighter jets to #SaudiArabia in a similar arrangement it has with #Israel.
"As far as I'm concerned, I think they are both at a level where they should get top of the line (F-35s)," Trump said, referring to Saudi & Israel as great allies.
"Israel is breaching international law by continuing to impose restrictions on aid flows into Gaza, where the population remains critically short of food and life-saving goods as winter sets in, a senior official at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said.
In an interview during a recent visit to Brussels, Natalie Boucly, an Unrwa deputy commissioner general, said the whole world – including the EU and US – needed to increase the pressure on Israel’s government to ensure the unrestricted flow of aid into Gaza.
Unrwa has enough food, tents and other essentials to fill the equivalent of up to 6,000 trucks, Boucly said.
“As winter approaches and famine continues to grip the population, it is critical that all this aid is allowed into Gaza without delay,” she said. “Our supplies would be able to provide food … for the entire population for about three months. And that is sitting outside [in Jordan and Egypt], not able to come in. And that is the case for the other UN agencies because the restrictions and the constrai
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"Israel is breaching international law by continuing to impose restrictions on aid flows into Gaza, where the population remains critically short of food and life-saving goods as winter sets in, a senior official at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said.
In an interview during a recent visit to Brussels, Natalie Boucly, an Unrwa deputy commissioner general, said the whole world – including the EU and US – needed to increase the pressure on Israel’s government to ensure the unrestricted flow of aid into Gaza.
Unrwa has enough food, tents and other essentials to fill the equivalent of up to 6,000 trucks, Boucly said.
“As winter approaches and famine continues to grip the population, it is critical that all this aid is allowed into Gaza without delay,” she said. “Our supplies would be able to provide food … for the entire population for about three months. And that is sitting outside [in Jordan and Egypt], not able to come in. And that is the case for the other UN agencies because the restrictions and the constraints are still there.”
She estimated that only about half, “if that”, of the 500-600 daily truckloads needed were getting into the devastated territory."
Brazilians have long supported Palestine, but the country's economic and military ties with Israel continue to deepen. As Israel's links to Brazil's domestic inequality, agribusiness, and state violence become clearer, Palestinian solidarity grows.
Brazilians have long supported Palestine, but the country’s economic and military ties with Israel continue to deepen. As Israel’s links to Brazil’s domestic inequality, agribusiness, and state violence become clearer, Palestinian solidarity grows.
![MrAdamR @mradamr.bsky.social - 3h
[+] Well...
#Eurovision was fun while it lasted.
What a mess.
Imagine destroying your legacy while forcing a fake image of United by
Music.
Huge support to those countries standing by their word and dropping
out.
Eurofans, we will support each other through this. They can't kill our
community and heart.
Q =13 Q 57 a & --](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5324533 "MrAdamR @mradamr.bsky.social - 3h
[+] Well...
#Eurovision was fun while it lasted.
What a mess.
Imagine destroying your legacy while forcing a fake image of United by
Music.
Huge support to those countries standing by their word and dropping
out.
Eurofans, we will support each other through this. They can't kill our
community and heart.
Q =13 Q 57 a & --")
![& markofbattersea @markofbattersea.bsky.social - 1h
WY cdnews
It looks like they're going allow #Eurovision to collapse into a mess, all to
defend one nation that has clearly been gaming the voting system.
[w] os Qe A &](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5324525 "& markofbattersea @markofbattersea.bsky.social - 1h
WY cdnews
It looks like they're going allow #Eurovision to collapse into a mess, all to
defend one nation that has clearly been gaming the voting system.
[w] os Qe A &")
![[06/18/19 06:28:46 AM] Epstein: How dare you refer to your sweetheart by such a phrase. Shame on you , boy I've been
having fun with this
[06/18/19 06:29:18 AM] Epstein: If I were you. Id sign that dollar quickly. As the interest expense is getting very very
high
[06/18/19 06:30:37 AM] Epstein: All I need to say. Is " its so beautiful - he shares the same view of you " and Lucifer
will look like mother Theresa
[06/18/19 06:32:24 AM] Epstein: Do you think when she wakes up in the morning she looks a little like Donald
[06/18/19 06:32:35 AM] Epstein: Sam jowls
[06/18/19 06:32:39 AM] Epstein: Same
[06/18/19 06:33:39 AM] __________________: Scary
[06/18/19 06:33:47 AM] Bannon (?): Too much coke
[06/18/19 06:37:46 AM] Epstein: Too much ugly
[06/18/19 06:37:57 AM] Epstein: Miro ?
[06/18/19 06:38:15 AM] Epstein: Im meeting council of Europe head thurs. to push
[06/18/19 11:18:08 AM] Bannon (?): Working miro
[06/18/19 12:22:42 PM] Bannon (?): Shanahan blown up by CCP
[06/18/19 12:30:15 PM] Bannon (?): Did you watch Chernobyl yet???
[06/18/19 12:31:11 PM] Bannon (?): Have you read 'in the closet of the Vatican ' yet
[06/18/19 12:32:48 PM] Epstein: Yes no yes
[06/18/19 12:33:21 PM] Epstein: June 26 for chernobyl
[06/18/19 12:39:54 PM] Bannon (?): Dude-- I thought u were global player-- sean will get to u
[06/18/19 12:39:57 PM] Bannon (?): Today
[06/18/19 12:40:50 PM] Bannon (?): You are now exec producer of 'ITCOTV'
[06/18/19 12:41:20 PM] Epstein: Porn](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5309517 "[06/18/19 06:28:46 AM] Epstein: How dare you refer to your sweetheart by such a phrase. Shame on you , boy I've been
having fun with this
[06/18/19 06:29:18 AM] Epstein: If I were you. Id sign that dollar quickly. As the interest expense is getting very very
high
[06/18/19 06:30:37 AM] Epstein: All I need to say. Is \" its so beautiful - he shares the same view of you \" and Lucifer
will look like mother Theresa
[06/18/19 06:32:24 AM] Epstein: Do you think when she wakes up in the morning she looks a little like Donald
[06/18/19 06:32:35 AM] Epstein: Sam jowls
[06/18/19 06:32:39 AM] Epstein: Same
[06/18/19 06:33:39 AM] __________________: Scary
[06/18/19 06:33:47 AM] Bannon (?): Too much coke
[06/18/19 06:37:46 AM] Epstein: Too much ugly
[06/18/19 06:37:57 AM] Epstein: Miro ?
[06/18/19 06:38:15 AM] Epstein: Im meeting council of Europe head thurs. to push
[06/18/19 11:18:08 AM] Bannon (?): Working miro
[06/18/19 12:22:42 PM] Bannon (?): Shanahan blown up by CCP
[06/18/19 12:30:15 PM] Bannon (?): Did you watch Chernobyl yet???
[06/18/19 12:31:11 PM] Bannon (?): Have you read 'in the closet of the Vatican ' yet
[06/18/19 12:32:48 PM] Epstein: Yes no yes
[06/18/19 12:33:21 PM] Epstein: June 26 for chernobyl
[06/18/19 12:39:54 PM] Bannon (?): Dude-- I thought u were global player-- sean will get to u
[06/18/19 12:39:57 PM] Bannon (?): Today
[06/18/19 12:40:50 PM] Bannon (?): You are now exec producer of 'ITCOTV'
[06/18/19 12:41:20 PM] Epstein: Porn")
