As a big fan of Eurovision, it pains me to boycott the contest this year but I can't stomach the thought of endorsing mass-murderers.
The EBU banned Russia from competing after their invasion into Ukraine (after a lot of public outcry, I must add), so why can't they ban Israel as well? If the problem is they "don't want Eurovision to be political", well tough luck, it already is and has been from the very start.
The answer, of course, is money.
Rapper Macklemore went after President Biden in a new song on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and recent pro-Palestinian student protests.
“The blood is on your hands, Biden, we can see it all,” the rapper says in a video featuring the song, titled “Hind’s Hall,” seemingly in reference to what pro-Palestinian protesters renamed a building on Columbia University’s campus when they took it over last week. The video was posted Monday to the social platform X.
Macklemore was previously a speaker at a pro-Palestinian protest in the fall of last year in Washington, D.C., shortly after the current conflict between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas began.
There are two things that always bring me back to the politics and all the fucked up events of that time period. It was the first recent-past generation reaching adulthood that had never known anything other than a government that, for the most part, didn't give a fuck about them on any level.
This fan made video for Roger Waters's "Home." All the events in the little montage bring me back real powerful.
Rage Against the Machine played a show during the 2000 Democratic National Convention in protest of the two-party system, and despite pushes from the City of Los Angeles to force them to play a small venue across the city from the DNC, they were allowed by a judge to play across the street from the event. LAPD security measures included a 12-foot high fence and about 2,000 officers in riot gear. After the performance, numerous attendees provoked police, causing them to declare unlawful assembly, and a riot broke out ending in violence and arrests.
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