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ESC '24: In Review, pt. 4

Now reviewing France, Georgia, Germany, and Greece! Roll those dice, put out those fires, eat your croissant, and RUN--

#eurovision #esc #eurovision song contest #free palestine #eurovision 2024 #free gaza #esc 2024 #greece #germany #france #georgia

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ESC '24: In Review, pt. 3

So the EBU has been disappointing us all left and right, so I hope looking at my reviews brings a little bit of happiness to anyone feeling a bit down from all this. Love y'all <3

#eurovision #esc #eurovision song contest #free palestine #eurovision 2024 #free gaza #esc 2024 #finland #estonia #czechia #denmark

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ESC ‘24: In Review pt. 2

Here we go with 🇦🇿🇧🇪🇭🇷🇨🇾!

What do you think of these songs? Are you a pop fan? Ballad? Rock? A little bit for everybody!

Btw you can check out this post on my Instagram to get a bunch of info about EurovisiOFF and Falastinvision, two huge boycott/protest efforts recently coming into the foreground! Remember to celebrate music AND fight for a Free Palestine!!

#eurovision #esc #eurovision song contest #free palestine #eurovision 2024 #free gaza #esc 2024 #Belgium #Cyprus #Croatia #Azerbaijan

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ESC'24 In Review: ALBANIA - ARMENIA - AUSTRALIA - AUSTRIA

The first four countries of my In Review magazine are ready to be scored! What do you think of these songs?

As always, you can read these reviews and scores a day early on the EuroQuision Patreon! Feel free to add any *kind and respectful* comments about these songs if you wanna!

#esc #eurovision #eurovision song contest #free palestine #eurovision 2024 #free gaza #palestine #esc 2024 #ebu

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I have said this before. Israel is an extension of white supremacy.

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hi friends!!! my good pal bea @euroquision made a video on the situation at hand and how to effectively boycott eurovision! they took a while on it so go support them! also free palestine!!🇵🇸

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PRODUCTION UPDATES//Eurovision 2024: In Review!

Hey loves!! Firstly, thank you to everyone who has watched/shared my video essay. I couldn't have had even half the impact I've had without your help, kindness, and thoughtfulness. Thank y'all for being here and plz keep up all efforts you've got to support a Free Palestine.

Next, onto business details! I'm super duper happy to share with y'all my April Production Schedule! More details in my wonderful lil graphic:

The online article for April is gonna be the Eurovision 2024: In Review, but don't worry, my articles every other month aren't gonna be so enormous I publish them in little chunks, lol.

So if you're already a Patreon member, the first batch of reviews are there for you to read! I hope you enjoy my comments, designs, and scores! The rest will be publicly shared everywhere on Wed. and Sat.

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON!

#eurovision #esc #eurovision song contest #eurovision 2024 #free palestine #free gaza #palestine #ebu #esc 2024 #in review #production schedule #update #reviews

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HOW TO BOYCOTT EUROVISION

A few months of writing, rewriting, and editing all on my own has led to this:

Please share this as far and wide as you can. I know people feel hopeless but there's still so much to learn and do.

Free Palestine, then now and always.

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April 6th, only on the EuorQuision YouTube 💜

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No, Iceland is not up to "dirty political tricks" and neither is Bashar Murad

Hey lovely people, spirits, souls, and ghouls of Tumblr! To those of you who don't follow me on TikTok, there's a video I made just yesterday concerning Iceland (the lil Eurovision Country that Could!), Israel, a certain Irish TikTok-er with impressively horrible media literacy, and our dearest friend Bashar Murad. If you're not on TikTok, that's wonderful and dear god you don't need to subject yourself to that app. Instead, I wanted to make a post that explains what's going on, what's being said, and why one (1) Palestinian is not responsible for the aforementioned "dirty" political tricks.

If you're following Eurovision or just Bashar Murad himself, consider giving this a read.

So let's begin! First: who's calling Bashar Murad/Iceland "dirty"? Where am I getting that word from and why is it in quotes? That's because: it IS a quote! Buck wild, I know. This is a quote from the TikTok account AllThingsAdam.ie, run by the Irish Eurovision...fan? Podcast-haver? Idk, I'm not saying "journalist" because if I wanted to have a laugh, I would just watch the Unicorn edit I made a couple months ago. Did I share that here yet? Just in case, here it is:

Never fails to make me smile. Great edit, Me! Anyway, back on topic: Adam McCallig is a person with a TikTok account that has half a million followers, he has a podcast where he's interviewed Eurovision and NF artists, so he's definitely a "known figure" to a certain point. I can't sit here and say he's some random troll, y'know? So, in a TikTok that has since been deleted from his page, he accuses Iceland of being up to "dirty political Eurovision 2024 tricks." I created a TikTok where I briefly show this video, and here's a link to that! You can watch that for my condensed version of everything I'm talking about here, but this Tumblr post is for those who like reading what I have to say in longer form. Here's that video:

Since Adam's video is now "gone," I will do my best and summarize what he stated with whatever journalistic integrity I have. First: you hear him open the video with the word "dirty." So no one can say I'm putting words in his mouth -- no no, these are lifted from the source material, honey. Next, he goes on to claim that Bashar "has no connection to Iceland whatsoever." As much as Adam wants this to be true, it just...isn't?? Like, let's ignore Bashar's longtime collaborations with HATARI. Instead, let's look at him literally performing on the Songvakeppnin stage in the 2020 NF season:

Additionally, the claim "Bashar has no connection to Iceland" rings very hollow not only when we know this claim is false, but it's not one Adam brings up about the many artists trying to represent a country other than their own in the 2024 NF season. Adam says he "knows that countries can let artists from whatever country represent them," but he hasn't made any videos about Marcus & Martinus (Norwegian) competing in Sweden's National Final. Tali (Israeli-born) is representing Luxembourg this year, and MEGARA (Spanish) are representing San Marino. "Foreign" artists representing any country in ESC is FAR from new, and if it were a punishable offense, Celine Dion would just have to settle for being Canadian.

However, as soon as Bashar Murad takes the stage and the colors of the Palestinian flag are visible, Adam is ready to take to TikTok and say "dirty political tricks" are at play -- before deleting it later, like I mentioned. In fact, not only did he delete it! Mere hours before writing this post, I used my second TT account to peep his page and he posted a video saying "One of these four songs should represent Iceland in Eurovision!" and showed snippets of four songs competing in the Icelandic NF Grand Finale, which takes place on Saturday the 2nd of March. However: there aren't four songs competing to win for Iceland. There's five. Which four did he show? The fours songs that AREN'T Bashar Murad. And yet, he's the one being dirty in all this? Adam, sweetie, the dirty call is coming from inside the dirty house.

Now, you might wonder if Adam has kept this kind of energy when talking about Israel's Eurovision participation, which at time of writing is still very much up in the air. But thing is: he doesn't. At least, not really. Adam has posted a video condemning the alleged song that Israel is trying to submit to Eurovision titled "October Rain." I won't go too deep into that -- please follow @/IsraelBreaksRules on Twitter for more details on this!! But basically, what Adam is attempting to do is play some sort of "political centrist" take on Eurovision, while simultaneously trying to say "Keep politics OUT of Eurovision!!" And at the end of his deleted video, Adam claimed that while "what happened in Gaza is terrible," Iceland is just as guilty for playing political tricks as Israel might be, and Bashar Murad's participation is just as bad.

Two things wrong with that statement, Adam. One: It's not what "happened" in Gaza. It's not past tense. It's on-going. It hasn't stopped. That's actually -- believe it or not -- WHY WE'RE STILL HERE. And two: JUST AS BAD?? REALLY??

If you watched my TikTok response that I shared the link to, you'll have seen the evidence I shared. But I wanna share them again just so you all can clearly see how the "political tricks" at play this year are not on the part of Iceland, nor would they be "just as bad." Where do we begin? Maybe we could begin with the fact that "Wild West," Bashar's song, has been spammed with negative reviews by anti-Palestinian ESC fans. This is mathematically observable when you notice "Wild West" has roughly THREE TIMES as many reviews as the other Icelandic NF songs on EurovisionWorld.com. You can check them out here and see the numbers yourself.

But it doesn't stop at bad reviews. Israeli ESC fans have begun a campaign to mass vote against Bashar, specifically for Hera Bjork, one of the four other competitors in Iceland's final on Saturday. This is really funny to me though because if Bashar doesn't win, it should totally be Sigga Ozk, right? GO TIFFANY!!! Anyway, I digress. A link to an article covering this voting campaign can be found here!

Not only is Bashar facing backlash, hate, and organized efforts AGAINST his participation, Israel is funneling money and resources into Facebook ads that look like this, claiming to shape the narrative:

...as well as filming "comedy" "sketches" like this "song" called...

*deep existential sigh* "Jews Pua" Link to that video here, if you can stand three minutes of awful propaganda containing just the right combination of shitty, easy rhymes and enough pinkwashing to put "Cops at Pride!" to shame. All of this should make it VERY clear to anyone observing this situation as a whole that the political tricks at play are NOT being done equally from everyone involved. Dare I boldly say: this shit is INCREDIBLY ONE-SIDED and we need to remind ourselves of the awful reality that is Israel's access to the money, ability, and audience of their "dirty political tricks" more so than Bashar Murad or Iceland ever could.

Lastly, let's just acknowledge the racism-shaped elephant in the room. Now, I as a white American am not here to play "Racism Police." That will never be the case. What I am about to say applies to the greater conversation, and it's not just an "Adam" problem. It's a problem we see happen when one (1) Palestinian decides to exist and write a song, and the way the world has been built around us conditions us to see that and scream "dirty political trickery afoot!!" Truly, ask yourself is this is "equal" in any way shape or form, as Adam posited. Adam and people like him will treat Iceland and Israel as equal, but that doesn't automatically make them "equal."

We are living in a world where Israel is currently being sued for genocide. That is not an exaggeration, it's just something we can all see and talk about. Israel is a country that has the money, platform, and bias of the most powerful countries of the world to not be held to the same standards of responsibility for the horrible things they're doing, nor is my own country being properly held accountable for PAYING for these things they're doing. Race is something used as a tool to identify oppressed peoples not just because it's discriminatory, but it tells people who aren't part of that group that people like Bashar Murad are simply political just by existing. Nowhere does Adam mention that Bashar and his song "Wild West" are about his journey as an artist having to leave his home and travel thousands of miles to the global "west" to even have a chance of representing Iceland (not Palestine, not Gaza, just Iceland) in Eurovision while the country responsible for the death of his people are facing MUCH less scrutiny from the Eurovision powers that be, let alone Irish TikTok accounts with re: shitty media literacy skills.

My final message to you is this: if you're someone paying attention to Eurovision and you maybe feel confused or overwhelmed by Israel, Iceland, Bashar, etc. etc. etc., here's what I want to tell you:

This is not an equal game. Iceland/Bashar are nowhere near on the same level as Israel and the money/access they have to GLOBAL levels of propaganda. Israel, in fact, verbally confirms how they want to use Eurovision to "shape the narrative" which is far dirtier, far more political than just the song "Wild West." Moreover, thinking that treating Eurovision as apolitical or that EVERYONE deserves the SAME level of EQUAL scrutiny only helps Israel at the end of the day. The things they've done, are doing, and hope to do are representative of tens of thousands of people they've killed in the last few months alone. Would you genuinely look at Bashar Murad trying to represent Iceland and say "Yep, these two things are the same"? My hope is that you wouldn't, but people like Adam clearly do.

Don't be like Adam. Don't play this weak-ass centrism card that ultimately helps no one and just makes it easier for people to shift blame, suspicion, or anger towards Bashar Murad. This is not the fight being had right now, and don't let it waste your time. Focus on what and who matters, which is obviously: the country doing genocide and wants us all to be chill with that.

PS. As a personal recommendation, "Wild West" and "Into the Atmosphere" are my two favs to win for Iceland, so def go gives those a stream. And while you're at it, let Bashar himself take you on a visual journey that might help you understand his message a bit better.

Much love you all. Thank you for being here. EuroQuision out.

#eurovision #es #eurovision 2024 #esc 2024 #bashar murad #free palestine #free gaza #iceland #songvakeppnin 2024 #israel #euroquision #tiktok #twitter #Youtube

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GOTHMINISTER 🇳🇴 has signed the Artists’ Statement to the EBU

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We will continue to see and speak about Palestine. Eurovision can be celebrated while we hold others accountable for their actions and demand change be made.

Good luck to all the artists tonight and Free Palestine

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Montaigne says "Sign this petition!"

No for real, they asked me to tell you that. How do I know? Because they, along with French 2023 representative La Zarra, were the first to co-sign the Artists' Statement to the EBU. This is an open letter that I WROTE!! and La Zarra responded to my messages asking her to co-sign it.

After Montaigne signed on as well, La Zarra posited the idea of making a Change . Org petition. Ten minutes later, we had this up and running:

With almost 3,000 signatures and THREE Eurovision/National Final artists' signatures, we're getting louder everyday and demanding that Eurovision be one of the few things in the world to ACTUALLY hold Israel accountable for their crimes. We will not sit idly by and cheer for a country being sued for genocide. Please consider signing and sharing this petition.

Additionally! On Saturday the 13th (the international day of action for Gaza) I will be doing a simultaneous live stream on BOTH of my TikTok accounts! You can find me there discussion ESC, sharing useful info, and signing the petition!! Can we get to 10k in one weekend? Let's find out!!

Thank you to everyone, truly. To Eurovision, Palestine doesn't exist. But it still exists for those who live there, for those who hurt them, and for those who choose to look away. We will not look away.

#eurovision #esc #eurovision song contest #eurovision 2024 #esc 2024 #israel #isnotreal #gaza #palestine #free gaza #free palestine #petition #change dot org #sign #tiktok #euroquision

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Big Ol' Eurovision UPDATE!

Oh hi lovely people of tumblr. Sorry the updates haven't been as consistent here as they have been on things like my instagram and TikTok. There's been a LOT of work and effort being done and there's some very exciting/promising developments to share!

First off, I wrote an open letter called the "Artists' Statement to the EBU" which is available for any and all Eurovosion/National Final artists to read and sign if they so choose. It asks the EBU to take action and remove Israel from the 2024 contest. AND! It already has a signature!

France's 2023 representative La Zarra has already gotten in touch with me and signed the letter. You can read the letter for yourself and La Zarra's comments HERE. There are already a handful of other artists who I've connected with that would want to sign the letter, so things are incredibly hopeful!

If you want to help spread the word, please consider reaching out to or commenting at your favorite ESC artists across social media and let them know this letter exists and they won't be alone in sharing their voice. Thank you to everyone who has already done so much to support this effort and spread the word <33333

#free palestine #free gaza #eurovision #esc #eurovision song contest #france #la zarra #evidemment #open letter #ban israel from esc #united by genocide

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NO ISRAEL IN EUROVISION

TO THE EBU: 200 MILLION PEOPLE ARE WATCHING

Do not let this slide, do not let this be ignored. Israeli aggression to Palestine may have been something your viewers could miss or ignore in the past, but everyone is aware. Everyone is watching. Make it loud and clear that an apartheid state carrying out an ethnic cleansing has no right or honor to compete in Eurovision.

REMINDER: IF YOU LIVE IN A EUROVISION-COMPETING COUNTRY, MAKE IT LOUD AND OBVIOUS TO YOUR BROADCASTER THAT ISRAEL HAS NO PLACE IN THIS CONTEST.

Just like we held Russia accountable for their crimes against Ukraine in 2022, we need to do the same for 2024. Please spread and amplify this message.

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2 Months Ago I Asked You:

Should Israel be removed from Eurovision 2024?

Since then, 1,005 people let me know their answers. Here’s what they had to say…

The form is still happily accepting answers!! Please add your voice and share it with your friends!!

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We Are the Children

A performance of "We Are the World" was seen on stage during Junior Eurovision 2023, advocating for a message of the singular word "Peace"

Mere weeks later, Israel's participation in Eurovision 2024 was announced.

Eurovision cannot use children to sing a message of "peace" without looking at those who cannot live in peace. Please consider watching this video and continuing to spread the message. We will not look away from the children and families suffering at the hands of the Israeli violence being funded by American dollars.

#eurovision #esc #eurovision 2024 #esc 2024 #junior eurovision 2023 #jesc #junior eurovision #free palestine #free gaza #ceasefire now #stop the genocide #israel #palestine #ebu #gaza genocide #ceasefire #free free palestine #Youtube