Favourites Finland and Israel advanced from the first Eurovision semi-final on Tuesday, despite five countries boycotting the contest over Israel’s participation. Belgium pulled off a surprise qualification, while Croatia, Greece, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Serbia and Sweden also secured spots in Saturday’s grand final in Vienna.
Would you say the same thing about Palestinians because of Hamas or Russians because Putin or Americans because Trump?
Not the first one. Just the last two.
Hear me out… The colonization of what is now the US was bad and I would absolutely say the same thing about the US and Russia has been ethnically clensing for far longer than Putin has been alive.
Hamas is not a settler colonial force. The idf and israel are