“[Eurovision] cannot be used to whitewash Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.” The Green Party in the UK has urged the British gov't to “follow in the footsteps of Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands” in boycotting Eurovision. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/aatkt4

Eurovision members have just voted against excluding Israel from the contest. Russia was excluded the moment they attacked Ukraine in 2022, but apparently genocide is fine if its Israel inflicting it on Palestine. Will the BBC tell us how they voted and will they now follow the Dutch & withdraw?

Russia was excluded for mainstream war against a neighbour - an excellent reason - while Israel needs a debate after an era-defining slaughter of civilians. But oh no! Germany will pull out if Israel is barred. Don’t threaten us with a good time. #eurovision

First the Girl Guides and now another venerable British institution is bullied (and capitulates) into discrimination against their will by another fine British institution: the pure bigotry of a small cabal of the meddling rich and a craven media whipping up a moral panic

Remember, these regime-changers *do not* care about democracy. This is pure PR narrative. The US gladly coups democratically elected leaders (Mosaddegh, Lumumba, Allende, etc), and gladly props up actual autocracies (Saudi, Jordan, Egypt, etc) if it serves their interests.

I thought I could not be shocked by what prominent transphobes feel able to say about me. Turns out I was wrong. Here is Richard Dunstan, a prominent commentator closely associated with the Sex Matters charity, speculating that I enjoyed being sexually assaulted as a child.

while it's still saturday here, it's still international day of solidarity with palestine (11/29), and i'm thinking of this painting by sliman mansour, of memory & depiction as resistance, and of a palestinian future free of israeli occupation 🎨 sliman mansour, "revolution was the beginning" (2016)

It drives Israelis crazy that Palestinians are the most resilient indigenous People in the world. Look at this

Next year, Shabana Mahmood is going to have you tortured at a black site if you’re caught performative reading Sally Rooney novels on the tube

We need to understand the 21st century as a window of atrocity. The right vastly expands what is permissible, and the centrists lock it in and legitimise it so that the right can expand the window ever further. I don’t see how any reasonable person can deny this is what has happened.

It's maddening. I tweeted a raffle for Gaza, an auction for Gaza and a link to our shop...they suspended me again & I can't appeal. This is after ebay Ireland suspended our store without giving us a reason. As Palestinian you're constantly fighting giants with your hands tied behind your back

I refuse to believe this isn’t AI

so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?

The liberal Zionist replies are revealing - they see themselves as the Serious Person in their families who argue with their relatives about illegal settlements, but ultimately give those settlements a pass if they're bundled into Making Aliyah as a value neutral proposition.

are you fucking serious

We have lost every single internet platform that informed the world about what's really happening in Palestine. Every single one.

Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

Meta's Facebook now encourages people to donate to hateful zionist organizations with prominent roles in Israel's genocide.

You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

THAT IS THE LESSON OF HOLOCAUST EDUCATION YOU SICK FREAK

So the solution is… to join in? I'm afraid the “dark forces” are calling from inside the house at this point.

Hard to understand how the UK Labour party has even a single member left, seeing as it it has now become everything that you imagine someone once drawn to joining a Labour party is vehemently against. No one joins a Labour party hoping to punch down on the weakest and advance far right arguments

Puking and crying at the thought of trans people in Ghana getting access to microcredit

working at the nyt

Thinking about how when a neo-nazi hacked Colombia and released Zohran Mamdani's application the NYT covered it as a major scandal sourced from "Colombia" and yet they were seemingly regularly receiving offers of incriminating evidence on Trump and refusing to publish it.

Some transphobic fucking kids radicalised by a transphobic fucking media and society killed Brianna Ghey, and yet politicians and media figures continue to peddle this quasi-victim-blaming narrative of "it's the phones' fault". To live in the UK is to experience constant gaslighting.

He thinks he's not the racism. Very funny.

Revealing division in my timeline between (1) my insider friends who have lived privileged lives who are very keen that we defend the BBC and think it's important it survives and (2) my outsider friends who feel (at best) ambivalent about the BBC's survival.

This needs to be read (and don't stop reading when you get annoyed at the writer for not knowing who Fetterman was before Oct. 7th or how long it took her to quit after Oct.7th)

Here we go again, new bed wetting just dropped

I know it's far from the top of the list, but one of the most wearying aspects of fighting transphobia is that the people pushing it are often just so, SO ignorant.

I hope people understand that the Israeli “yellow line” isn’t about security, it’s about cleaning up a crime scene and demolishing whatever they want without witnesses. No Gazans. No press. No one left except the perpetrators. Besides propaganda drivel, there is 0 news about that part of Gaza.

That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership

The carnage of the genocide has changed people. We wanted to free Palestine but it looks like Palestine will free us all...

He should have died in The Hague.

AI is elderly abuse to be honest. It's impossible to explain to someone over 80 why they can't believe what they've just seen.

Completely disgusting

Israeli officials don’t want the soldiers who do all the raping at Sde Teiman to go to jail, but instead the officer who leaked a video of one of the rapes

let's fucking go Hyperallergic published the Ai Weiwei piece a german newspaper first commissioned then killed because they didn't like what he had to say IN FULL lmao hyperallergic.com/1050197/what... Germany you are such a shameful country, that is only great at self-advertising

If Greens start consistently leading Labour in polls, and beating them in local elections then the logic of tactical voting which Labour has been relying on could flip savagely on them. As Caerphilly by-election shows, "Only Labour can beat Reform" doesn't work if voters know it isn't true.

We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak". But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.

Oh my God

I like living among people who refuse to be shamed by Brits

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Wow. He just cut him off