I am glad to see this news and I hope more countries join in.
Their efforts to sneak in pro-genocidal messaging through song lyrics, the buying of YouTube ads in most European countries to get as many votes as possible, and the ongoing attempts by EBU to silence all voices that are critical of their efforts to exterminate the people whose land they're occupying; it all makes me disgusted to see countries like Germany coming out with the opposite announcement of boycotting ESC if Israel won't be able to participate.
Of course, EBU will not disqualify Israel from Eurovision, and the reason is obvious for anyone who has checked the list of their sponsors.
Lmfao. Israel rigged the Eurovision, and couldn't even do that properly. Hurricane wasn’t even in the top 15 streamed Eurovision songs. Yet they got 323 points from the "public", just behind Croatia.
We see an influx of green accounts like yours created literally hours ago to defend the genocide that Israel is committing and what-about it.
Israel is currently a genocider state. Nazis were a genocider state. It's as simple as that. I am sure there were and still are many nazi-apologists, you are doing the same, but for Israel. Stop the genocide.
I didn't watch Israel's song. I didn't watch any youtube ads (thanks adblock), yet I spent 20 euros on Israel to stop the shameful anti Israel discourse.
If it's not evident I can't do much.
The constant outpour of media content that depicts Israel as cruel and unfair despite there being no real story.
The constant conflation of Israel with antisemitic stereotypes.
The denial of Israel's right to exist in both subtle and gross ways.
European left isn't giving any path to Israel to get respect, they will attack Israel no matter what they do.
In media, "Israel" refers to the current government of Israel and the actions that are done on its behalf. The evidences of war crimes are countless and irrefutable.
Nobody with half a brain conflates Israel's government with Judaism or with the Israeli people, ... but Israel's intelligence services have for a long time had the tactic to influence people to conflate them so as to be able to deflect criticism against its state as being anti-semitism — and they have been quite successful at that.
Similarly, antisemitic groups have taken advantage of the worldwide movement against what Israel is doing in Gaza and sometimes managed to insert themselves and their message among legitimate protests.
For instance, this summer an MP in my country had retweeted an image containing symbolism that she didn't understand — which caused her party to (over)react and exclude her.
I am sure that there is a lot of misleading propaganda going left and right within Israel as well.
It is important to be careful and identify things for what they are.
What conflation of Israel with antisemitic stereotypes?
Is murdering 10's of thousands of women and children an antisemitic stereotype?
Does expressing that Palestinian people are entitled to civil/human rights and self-determination some how deny Israel's right to exist?
The sooner you stop seeing this as a "right vs left" debate and start seeing it as a human catastrophe, the sooner you will start to understand why some people take issue in what Israel is currently doing.
> there being no real story.
Ok, dude. I cannot educate you if you actively refuse to follow the news.
What is so surprising to us who know history is that the Irish are supporting the colonizers. Jews are in their homeland. It's the Arabs who are colonizers.
There are 38 million Americans who identify as Irish. Is America the Irish homeland? No, it's Ireland.
To those who say Jews are colonizers: where is the Jewish homeland?
I've heard people say Poland, where Auschwitz is, thus revealing their true colors.
By that logic where is the Christian homeland? Jesus was born in Bethlehem, does that give all Christians a right to displace the people who live there?
Similarly the Irish are famous for being ethnically a Celtic people. The Celts originated in Hallstatt, Austria, so does that entitle any Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Scot or Welsh person to turn up and settle on the shores of the Hallstätter See?
All humans trace their origins back to Mesopotamia, can we all claim some land in Iraq too?
> What is so surprising to us who know history is that the Irish are supporting the colonizers. Jews are in their homeland. It's the Arabs who are colonizers.
You are being dishonest or severely brainwashed.
Ethnic groups doesn't have homelands, people born under a nation state [2] have homelands.
Israel was founded in 1948. You already know this.
Thank you. That's much more constructive and you can see from another reply that people are now able to evaluate and challenge them because they're claims of fact.
> Over 65000 people were killed by the Israeli "Defense" Forces in Gaza since October 7th. 31% of them were children
When “roughly half” of Gaza’s population “are under the age of 18,” your statistic actually describes discretion [1]. As for total kills, the data I’ve seen on CCRs put the IDF’s actions in the precedents range of guerrilla wars.
The way the IDF is conducting the war is, unfortunately, normal. What is not normal is the restriction of food, detention conditions and Netanyahu joining the Russia/China/Turkey club (along with Trump) on throwing out international law.
Amnesty and The International Association of Genocide Scholars both called it a genocide.
The Un has announced that it's a human made famine.
And the ICJ put an arrest Warren against the occupations leader.
But many Israel supporters live in a reality distortion field where they're eternal victims and therefore can do no wrong. No amount of well documented war crimes or obvious lies from the Israeli government will make a dent, because Palestinian lives have exactly zero value to them.
Honestly, they could be. Have you read those sources? Here's something I found from Amnesty International.
6.1.1 DIRECT ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS OR INDISCRIMINATE ATTACKS
It lists 15 cases of air strikes which it uses to support its claim of killing/harming members of a group which is part of the definition of genocide. However, all/nearly all of them say "Amnesty International did not find any evidence of a military objective.". So it seems possible Amnesty just doesn't know the secret military information and Israel didn't disclose it to them. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Do you believe there can't possibly have been any military objectives that make those air strikes legitimate?
If a state attacks, just for example, civilian hospitals (which typically do not contain valid military targets) then, in my view, the burden of proof lies on the attacking state.
Leaving aside, of course, the fact that attacking a civilian hospital, even one that has some military targets in it (say wounded combatants), would also certainly mean killing or injuring many invalid targets, and at that point you should really provide not just evidence of a military target but also evidence that you couldn't attack the target in any other way and that the target is valuable enough to justify the deaths of innocent people.
Which Israel has not done, and really, can't do. Because there really aren't many targets worth bombing a hospital for.
Well yea if there was a trial. But now it's just a trial by media and guilty until proven innocent. That's not a good way to reach the correct conclusion.
Hamas had bases in hospitals. Not just wounded fighters being treated. They stored weapons and housed fighters in them. They also built underground bases directly underneath hospital buildings. They specifically chose hospitals because they thought that would protect them from being attacked but it does make those hospitals a legitimate target.
Do you mean the claim that there was a command center under al-Shifa hospital? That was debunked over 18 months ago by multiple sources.
None of the attacks on hospitals have been justifiable under the Geneva Conventions.
> So it seems possible Amnesty just doesn't know the secret military information and Israel didn't disclose it to them. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Do you believe there can't possibly have been any military objectives that make those air strikes legitimate?
We don't know for sure that Hind Rajab wasn't planning attacks when she was supposed to be learning the alphabet either.
Maybe she was leading a Hamas cell with a crayon, but the intelligence is too crucial to share!
No killing one person is not genocide, it's a murder.
Killing 10,000's of women and children from a specific ethnic group, razing a significant percentage of buildings to the ground and forcibly displacing almost 2 million people while using starvation as a weapon of war, that's genocide.
I can't tell if you're serious or joking. If it's the former, could you elaborate on how that works? E.g. are you using a public LLM, or a self-hosted model?
I use a public LLM via its API. My workflow involves a main conversation history containing my initial notes. When I need to explore a specific topic further, I create a branch from that main conversation, keeping the original notes separate.
I should look into this because I have over 132000 words of text in my notes (more than the average novel) and I'm curious whether I can 'talk' to my second brain via a LLM.
Smart Connections[0] plug-in for Obsidian is worth checking out.
It does a really good job of indexing (with local or OpenAI embeddings) and RAG allowing you to chat with various models about your notes. The chunking and context algorithms it uses seem to be well designed and find most/all relevant details for most things I try to discuss.
It's well implemented and provides useful and interesting discussions with my journal/notes.
You could first ask a LLM to compress your notes. There was some informal research into this a while back, LLMs have the ability to translate text into a much shorter representation that only they can understand. That might allow you to get around the context size limits.
More practically (or additionally) you could just ask it to summarize them or extract the most relevant parts.
Alternatively, I think the most popular approach is to use a RAG thing though someone else will have to fill you in on the current state of the art.
SIP is a feature that protects you from malicious actors with root (admin) access on your device. After they've encrypted your photos and drives and changed your passwords, it prevents them from making your machine unbootable by deleting or altering system binaries. As a side effect of this protection, you give up certain freedoms to customize your system.
Don't disable security features because of random comments from randos.
Also, don't install shit anywhere but your home directory as you unless you want to break your system in an irreparably, unmaintainable, or unsupported manner.
If you're using sudo, you're already doing it wrong.
> Also, don't install shit anywhere but your home directory as you unless you want to break your system in an irreparably, unmaintainable, or unsupported manner.
I wish I could just use Safari, but uBlock Origin and 7TV are the two browser extensions that I'm way too used to. Too bad, there are some things in Orion that bother me (wonky desktop-mobile sync is the biggest one).
