There's a super famous singing festival in italy that airs for a week every year. This year, one of the singers, Ghali, did some very remarkable things on that stage. Ghali was born in Italy from Tunisian parents, his career has been going on for a while, but this was his first time on that stage.
He made a song where he references Palestine where he sings: "how can you say everything is fine down here, where in order to trace borders with imaginary lines you bomb an hospital, for a piece of land or for a piece of bread there is no peace" . He also did a medley, singing also in arabic for the first time in the history of the festival.
Last night, during the final, he ended his performance asking to "stop the genocide!" I don't have to tell you that there's absolutely nothing pro-Palestine on italian media... and he used the biggest stage he could use to say that.
Today on a tv programme he was accused by the Isra*li ambassador of spreading hate and violence, to which he replied with those words in the following video (credits to the person who translated it here):
The italian TV broadcaster quickly posted a press release to distance themselves from this speech and to reiterate their whole support to Isr*el lol Towards the end of this tv programme, a few hours after Ghali said what you can hear in this video, they read the press release out loud. This is how Isra*li propaganda works everywhere, thanks to the complicity of our governments.
Just want to post about him because he really risked it all and I appreciate him incredibly for everything he did...if only everyone could do the same. And fuck italy and its fascist government.
park chan-wook and jeong seo-kyeong took a story about love between two women freeing them from sexual exploitation, set it in japanese occupied korea, and made the main villain a korean man masquerading as japanese who believes in the righteous subjugation of his own country and people and who forces his own japanese niece to subjugate herself to him so he can at last truly “become” japanese through her degradation. the patriarchy and the empire act as one. fighting for women and fighting against imperialism must go hand in hand
ah, an opponent arrives... [draws my sword and turns around] hm. your footsteps made you sound taller... [sheathes my sword and draws a second, smaller sword]