Today in Labor History April 26, 1937: The Nazis bombed Guernica, a town in the Basque region of Spain. Later that year, Picasso painted his famous painting, Guernica, in protest of the atrocity. This was during the Spanish Civil War. The Republicans, a coalition of anarchist, socialist and communist partisans, were fighting the Nationalists, led by the fascist, Francisco Franco. The Nazis bombed Guernica for two hours. They killed between 1,000 and 3,000 civilians, or 20-60% of the population.
#IsraelBoycott / Mass resignations at ‘Guernica,’ which retracts Israeli writer’s essay
While Israel managed to participate in the #Eurovision, that might be the extent of what Israelis can aspire to in the foreseeable future.
Several staff members and a publisher of the prestigious volunteer-run online magazine #Guernica, a 20-year-old publication covering arts and politics, resigned over an essay by Israeli writer Joanna Chen.
[…] “The moment in the Guernica essay where the Israeli writer — who never considers why Palestinian children don’t have access to adequate healthcare b/c of colonization and apartheid — says she has to stop assisting them getting medical support because of ‘Hamas.’ This is genocidal.”
Spanish protesters’ tribute to Gaza war victims | Al Jazeera English - (YouTube shorts, 2024-03-18)
"Hundreds of protesters in Spain’s San Sebastian lay together on the ground in a tribute to victims of Israel’s war on Gaza, next to a banner inspired by Picasso’s famous anti-war painting ‘Guernica’."