Someone called Olly, who I have never heard of until now is standing firm.
Olly Alexander has rejected calls to pull out of the Eurovision Song Contest in protest against Israel’s inclusion.
The UK’s entrant for this year’s competition expressed his wish for peace, but said he believes in the unifying power of music.
He was responding to an open letter by more than 450 queer artists, individuals and groups urging him to boycott the event over the Gaza war.
That, frankly, is the best way to deal with these creeps. Defy them. Good for him. I still don’t really know who he is, but he just went up in my estimation.
Before he was selected to represent the UK, Alexander endorsed a statement accusing Israel of genocide.
Oh, okay… Maybe not.
Good for Olly, whoever he is.
Why did Israel invade Gaza? To eradicate a cancer which attacks peaceful, innocent, people. Which decapitated babies, raped pregnant women and then tears out the fetus from the slit open womb. Which kidnaps, tortures, and strips, teenage women, and parades them through the streets of Gaxa, while ordinary Palestinians cheer, mock, and throw rocks, animal, and human, faeces at the helpless child. Cancer can not be reasoned with. It can not be made to pay dormant. It must be completely destroyed or else it will grow again, and continue it’s route of destruction.
Peopl, stupid, tunnel visioned, people, demand a ceasefire in Gaza. It can end in one day. All it would take is Hamas to lay down it’s weapons, and release the hostages. However, Hamas, like the cancer it is, cannot be reasoned with, and accepts destruction of ‘good tissue’ in order to further it’s goal.
I would suggest that, with the world is it as it is, ‘Null Point’ will be Olly’s fate, but I hope he has a bloody good go.
Interestingly, if a Hamas equivalent had done this to any other country, there would be screams for blood. Yet because it is Israel, the response – a proportionate one where they gave prior warning to allow civilians to leave – is condemned as genocide. It is nothing of the sort. They claim it is in breach of international law. There is no such thing and no, it isn’t.
It’s the only ‘genocide’ in history which will leave more people in place when it finishes than when it started.
This is why I absolutely couldn’t give a tuppeny fuck about gaza anybody in it or anything that happens to it (or anything else pislamic).
The actual group who wrote and signed the letter called themselves ‘queers for Palestinian’. They wouldn’t stand a chance if they went to Palestinian. Olly is a very off beat singer/actor, I think he is gay himself, but I’m glad he is standing his ground. Eurovision was set up to be non political, originally to bring nations together, via music, after the second World War. Love it or hate it, you have to keep politics out.
The UK has mostly had unknown artists representing us in the ESC for quite a while now, so it isn’t really a surprise that you haven’t heard of him.
“…more than 450 queer artists…”
Who would quickly find themselves (briefly) on the roof of a tall building if they ever decided to show their support of Gaza by visiting.
Fortunately the very tall buildings in Gaza have been made safe for gays.
However this has left lots of rocks for a good stoning.