Venues across the country are cancelling Eurovision gigs after Palestine protest groups instructed their followers to hound pubs showing the contest, with bars closing their doors as they fear for staff safety. The Mail has the story.
Bars face boycotts and pickets as they prepare for the singing competition, with pro-Palestine mobs striking out against the inclusion of Israel’s Eden Golan as one of the favourites for Saturday’s grand final.
Action group Brighton Queers for Palestine has posted the contact numbers for bars that are continuing with their nights as they tell their followers to “call and ask them to reconsider screening Eurovision” as they accuse them of “complicity in genocide”.
And some London venues have been forced to cancel their events as they fear for the safety of their staff amid the backlash – with others saying they had decided to close in solidarity with Palestine.
It comes as Rishi Sunak blasted Eurovision protests taking place in Sweden as “wrong” and “outrageous”.
The move has sparked fury among the Jewish community. The Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “It is shameful that venues may be succumbing to pressure from discriminatory groups to cancel Eurovision screenings because the contest features the Jewish state.
“These activists have no regard for the rights and freedoms that we cherish and will use any tactics to get their way, including intimidation.
“This is thuggery, and the only response must be to stand up to it and refuse their outrageous demands.”
Two of London’s biggest Eurovision events have now been cancelled, with four axed in Brighton as activists threaten protests.
LGBTQ entertainment venue the Royal Vauxhall Tavern made the decision to close this week, telling fans this week that it “will not be open for any event on Saturday night”.
Worth reading in full.
Some Daily Sceptic readers wonder why the editorial line here tends to be supportive of Israel. When those opposing Israel include Greta Thunberg and Turkeys for Christmas Queers for Palestine – i.e., the wokeish far Left – perhaps it helps to clarify things. Israel stands condemned primarily for being a white (or, worse, Jewish) colonial imposition on an oppressed indigenous people. But the Leftist ‘anti-colonial’ history here is as mangled as ever, and in fact Israel is (on the most part) a beacon of democracy, sanity and decency in a troubled region – one defending itself against a genocidal aggressor, Hamas. When you find yourself allied with Greta and the mobs that yesterday were rioting for BLM, it’s worth wondering whether you’re on the right team. True, such associations aren’t determinative of being in the wrong. But when the same people are making the same arguments with the same skewed take on history, leading to the same thuggish behaviour, you can start to see a pattern.
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“Some Daily Sceptic readers wonder why the editorial line here tends to be supportive of Israel.”
That’s cleared the air.
I am in complete agreement with the DS line.
me too!
In a similar vein, look what’s happening in Russia – the Immortal Regiment has been laid to rest. The muzzies can however fill the streets at will.
https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/09/immortal-regiment-cancelled-a-massive-victory-for-safety-in-russia/
Steady Hux, you’ll get Monro’ed!
What is Monroing? its a new one to me.
Monro is an AI bot that posts on here regularly, long boring pointless copy and paste of other people’s sayings and beliefs presented as ‘evidence’
All you have to do to get Monro’ed is mention Russia!
Hamas is a prescribed terrorist organisation and Israel has every right to remove the threat! Since when has any genocidal country given the population warnings to leave? That fact is the very essence of non- genocidal!
Proscribed?
So sorry for the spelling mistake, glad you pulled me up on it
100%, hux. I’ve absolutely no time for anyone who hates, denigrates, scapegoats or disrespects people based purely on their religion, where they live, their sex or whatever. It demonstrates ignorance, small-mindedness and somebody with a seriously unpleasant personality that I have no desire to rub shoulders with in real life or waste time having any sort of exchange with online either. Haters will always hate but they try and find some justification which legitimizes their hostility. Thankfully they’re not shy in outing themselves so they’re all welcome to carry on stewing in their own bitterness from behind the safety of their screens, shielded by their cloaks of anonymity. Everyone’s a ‘keyboard warrior’, aka a coward, nowadays seemingly. And anyone supporting or excusing terrorism is an absolute disgusting excuse for a human being.
Russia is another place where Rumble has been cancelled. France & Brazil are the other places. Russell Brand thinks TPTB will cancel everything because they are struggling to hold the narrative.
Thanks Mogs
100%
Yes but they are not a haven of democracy in other areas….Look at the vaccine passport system that was a blueprint for heath fascism in the West. And we mustn’t let the ADL of the hook. They have a history of antisemitism accusations of anyone they disagree with, Andrew Bridgen is an example. There were some Jewish groups that defended his speech including the Doctor that he was quoting, but what was the position of the ADL on that. They have also supported open boarders and mass immigration too. But as for the people singing in a contest, all that sh@t was started when they started cancelling Russian athletes in competing just because they happen to be Russian. What next, we have to complete a whole list including whether you support veganism before you are aloud to compete! And another thing that won’t stop at terrorists and Oligarchs is the freezing of assets — the normalisation of that would go hand in hand with CBDCs.
So, Ron Smith.
You are correct that Israel got their response to the Plandemic very badly wrong.
OK, full agreement.
Of course, at least 99% of other countries’ Beloved Leaders also screwed up and the UK was one of the worst.
But on 7th October, Israel suffered mass rape, brutal mass murder of innocent civilians, looting, hostage taking at the hands of an Islamo-fascist death cult overwhelmingly supported by Gazan people.
You suggest that was right and proper because of the Israeli Government’s jabba jabba policies?
Perhaps you think over 30 years of gang rape of British schoolgirls by Religion of Peace enthusists was just a case of getting revenge in early for Bunter’s health wizardry?
Where have I justified October 7th?
” Israel is (on the most part) a beacon of democracy”
I was just picking them up on that quote and pointing out, along with others, that Israel is far from a beacon of democracy for the reasons mentioned. I would go even further and point out Israel should be the last place to introduce health fascism for obvious historical reasons.
For all their faults (and handing Gaza back to the Islamo- fascists was a very bad one), they are easily the best between Athens and Delhi. Not that I am a big fan of either of their Governments.
At least in Israel you will have no problems if you fancy a good and intelligent debate.
Try that in Gaza. Or Tehran. Or Islamabad.
Pop Goes our freedoms!
Mob rule it is then!
What will be the next major fault with modern life worth altering democracy for?
These groups and protesters need to be careful what they wish for, the next mob might be against them!
that’s what i think too mob rule since 2020 especially noticeable
A few years ago, this beacon of democracy, sanity and decency invented untried COVID booster shots for everyone for no particular reason save “We’re going to do that now and see what happens!” The same beacon of democracy, sanity and decency was also behind smearing Andrew Bridgen as antisemite, as per its usual policy of smearing everyone as antisemite who doesn’t believe in its beaconness. That the Gretna is – as usual – just following her marching orders doesn’t mean that I must be particularly fascinated with her present object of ‘official’ disdain.
There are more than two positions here and it’s perfectly possible to object to both sides.
If only I’d have scrolled down I would’ve seen that you’ve covered every point I made.
Agreed, RW. I’ve abstained on this subject generally because it’s so infernally polarised. There are kings trying to divide us. On all matters.
“Brighton Queers for Palestine”??? I suggest they go there and see how they get on.
I would pay much fine gold to witness that!
They would become little Orville the Ducks. I believe I can Fly!
That poster of LGBTQ being thrown off a bridge shouting ‘we’re on the same side’ should be on every billboard!
Pull up a chair, break out the popcorn and watch ‘queers for palistine’ fly from the roof tops! And if they say that this isn’t true, please, be my guest and go to palistine to prove your statement!
Indeed.
“Homosexuality Bigger Threat to Israel Than Hamas: Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Lawmaker”
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-06-20/ty-article/.premium/ultra-orthodox-israeli-lawmaker-homosexuality-bigger-threat-to-israel-than-hamas/00000188-d9f0-d5fc-ab9d-dbf8140e0000
So all these hate speech laws can register people for a mistaken twatgendering but actively call for intimidating waysist aggro & that’s ok
Surely the primary reason to support Israel in this instance is because Hamas, & by association, citizens of Gaza are the aggressors. Hamas’ actions on Oct 7th were an act of murder & rape. At the time there wasn’t a war going on & as those attacked were mainly civilians, it wasn’t an act of war. It was murder & rape.
The Gazan authorities could end the bombing & assault tomorrow if they releases the hostages & extradited the murderers & rapists. They won’t so Israel is entitled to try & releade the hostages & arrest or fight the perpetrators.
Hamas knew what the consequence of their actions would be. They must continue to think it’s worth the cost.
And the Daily Septic has allied itself with the likes of Tommy Robinson, right wing knuckle draggers and the neo-cons in the US who are threatening ICC members.
The DS should be ashamed of itself for supporting the killing of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians.
The Daily Septic is on the wrong side of history.
No! The Daily Sceptic, and the Free Speech Union, are on the side of the angels.
Angels?
I’m speaking in general terms, nothing to do with any specific regional conflict or country. The Free Speech Union and Daily Sceptic are fighting against evil and tyranny suppressing Freedom of Speech in our own lands first, and also offering support to other Free Speech movements in other lands.
The commenter “Glass Half Full” would describe me as a “right wing knuckle dragger”, which suits me just fine.
Selectively fighting for freedom of speech so partly promoting censorship.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/03/29/are-we-being-gaslit-over-the-cause-of-the-princess-of-waless-cancer
Could you provide a list of “right wing knuckle draggers?”
Tommy Robinson has been one of the few to raise the alarm about the onslaught of muslimisation taking over this country and without our consent. If the way he is being treated by the police and judiciary does not alert you to the probability that he is over the target then you need some new glasses.
Actually I cannot recall any overt commentary in praise of Tommy Robinson in any DS article so your accusation is ill founded but by all means correct me if I am wrong.
If the DS is on the wrong side of history so too are many subscribers. I tend to the view that your interpretation of recent history is somewhat skewed although most likely the result of a lack of research.
Indeed and that bastion of free speech GB News will slag off TR but never invite him to defend his position. That is absurd!
I do believe the years of rethoric against Tommy Robinson has made him radio active to any main stream media!
Do any socialist media groups invite him on for an opposite opinion?
We saw what happened the last time a Patriot was invited to discuss his views on BBC Question Time. He was shouted down by the mob, gnashing their teeth, ready to rip him limb from limb. His name was Nick Griffin.
Exactly
Don’t forget, a ‘Patriot’ is a dirty colonialist racist! These days, anyway
Exactly.
I’ve been researching the problems in Palestine for the past 45 years and I soon came to the conclusion that the occupying Jews were causing those problems.
I agree with Tommy Robison on many things but NOT on Israel who funds him so he supports their cause.
Sorry, I’m confused, previous posts accepted, are you supporting your cause after 45 years living in palistine? Or have you been studying the cause from somewhere else? Do you live in palistine? I live in ireland and don’t try to conceal that fact!?
Cited to Voltaire:
” I may not agree with what you have to say but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
GHF
more than most who agree with your genuinely held beliefs, you actually stay on the DS and say it, for that, I respect you
He said he would defend the right to speak. He did not say that everyone has to listen to them…
Ha-ha! Nice one!
Yes, thats the ipitome of freedom of speech!
Thank you.
There is at least two sides to every story.
The Daily Septic and the main stream media are only giving one side.
There is a huge number of “trusted” sites in the alternative media which provide a compelling case against the current Israeli regime.
Could you give links, because I would love to have a glegg?
No my friend, you are wrong. Like all those who ally themselves with ‘oppressed minorities’, you fail to appreciate that sometimes the oppression is for a very good reason. Israel and its people have a right to exist, and to try to live peace with its neighbours. When all else fails, they also possess the greatest military might in the region, and are not afraid to use it. It is regrettable that anyone has to die in this including ‘innocent Palestinians’, presumably not the ones who were celebrating like New Years Eve driving the bodies of murdered Israeli’s in the back for display. This is nothing more than more Marxist activism clinging onto the next thing to show how much better the world would be with their warped sense of morality. Except we’ve seen it. We’ve seen it in Russia, and China, and Cambodia, and Zimbabwe, and a dozen other places, where so many more innocent lives have been lost. No my friend, you are wrong…
No my friend I am not wrong, it is you and the Daily Septic who are wrong in supporting the pariah Israeli regime.
Jews have a right to exist in their own country.
They don’t have a right to exist in someone elses country.
Jews have always been a minority in Palestine and fortunately tens of thousands are leaving Israel back to where they belong.
A single state where Jews and Arabs live side by side is the desired outcome.
In Israel, Jews and Arabs live side by side, Jews are the 75% majority. Arabs are not discriminated against by the Israeli State.
In Arab nations, there are few if any Jews, they have been excluded by their hosts.
How do you square the ‘peace and love’ outcome, when one side want the other wiped out, and driven from its land.? Have you forgotten what the flashpoint was that started all of this.?
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-02-29/ty-article/.premium/personal-safety-institutional-racism-the-challenges-facing-arab-israeli-mayors/0000018d-f51f-da4e-adbf-f7bff1b20000
If you think this started on October 7th you are ignoring 75 years of Israeli subjugation.
Take down that star
You used it to make a point on jabbination. I understand.
Otherwise, you’re not fit to display it.
I’m leaving it there just for you.
Do you think that if Hamas had stayed in its borders and chosen not to brutally and horrifically murder more than 1,000 people, that this situation would have exploded as it has.? Or are you using their ‘subjugation’ as a form of justification for their actions.?
Do you think that Hamas’s stated objective that they want to kill all Jews and take the land makes compromises a bit tricky.?
I agree with China.
China signals that October 7 was an exercise in international law.
The Chinese representative points out to the ICJ that armed resistance against the occupation is enshrined in international law and is not terrorism.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/youre-not-israelis-youre-arabs-settlers-oust-family-picnicking-in-w-bank/
We have police officers in the UK arresting people for praying in the street. What do we have to be proud about..?
How does that relate to Arabs being discriminated against by the Israeli state?
That aside, I agree. Our government should be less interested in Israel and more interested in working for us.
Nudge Unit much? flock off.
The Daily Sceptic editors have every right to be supportive of whatever they please, but they are almost unique in truly “Defending Freedom”, (unlike The Conservative Woman, The Occidental Observer, and other so-called free speech websites) by allowing comments and articles about views opposed to their own. For this they deserve the highest praise.
Let us not forget, however, that this war thousands of miles away is not our war. Nor is Ukraine’s war “our war”.
We Europeans once fought a massive war to rescue the Jewish people, who cried out to us to save them, gave them refuge in the West, and gave them the homeland in Israel they desired, at a huge cost to our own people. But they showed their gratitude in a strange way, by opening the Gates of the West to mass invasion from the Third World, and quietly forcing laws through our western assemblies to criminalise all resistance to this invasion, while fiercely protecting their own right to resist such invasion.
Let us learn from our mistakes, and not get dragged into another “rescue” war.
Pretty much the point I made!
Mark Steyn’s take on this very subject:https://www.steynonline.com/14291/malmo-and-me
I followed your link and read Steyn’s powerful article, struck by what he was saying over a decade ago about Malmo’s fall into the abyss. Alas for the Swedes, who never even had “colonies” in the Third World as a Muslim pretext for invasion.
Though now that I think of it, old Mo himself did promise his followers “Yellow Women” as sex slaves, meaning blonde Slavs, Scandinavians and other Northern Europeans.
This is all about the Maoist cultural revolution deliberated designed to destroy the West.
Greta Thunberg, Just Stop Oil, Antifa, BLM are just Xi’s Red Guards.
As for Queers for Palestine Hamas throw parties on rooftops for people like them, literally.
JSO have just tried to vandalise the Magna Carta, because the government has committed crimes. You know what they say about broken clocks and all.
Off-T
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-record
Atmospheric CO2 increased by 4.7 parts per million last year.
Read that again… 4.7 parts per million.
We’re doomed Mr Mainwaring. Doomed!
Recent research has suggested that CO2 levels were last this high around 14m years ago, causing a climate that would appear alien to people alive today.
If CO₂ levels of ~420ppm (0.042%) caused a climate that would appear alien to people alive today how come they’re not causing that today, too? In other words, if CO₂ causes climate (whatever that’s supposed to mean) how can the same amount of CO₂ both cause a climate that would appear alien to people alive today and one which decidedly wouldn’t because it is the climate of today? Doesn’t this rather suggest that CO₂ doesn’t cause climate?
[This self-contradiction is logically so twisted that it’s really difficult to spell it out in plain English.]
I had to read that a few times LOL.
Yes, this crossed my mind when I read it. Did our ancestors have different breathing apparatus?
For years commercial growers of tomatoes and salads have used CO2 enriched air (1000-1200ppm) in their greenhouses. The Grauniad article is just ignorant scaremongering by Marxist agitators. Shame on anyone who doesn’t at least as pertinent questions about it.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68991038.amp
Another Paula Vennells.
Personally these two should be sent down for life. They are probably fully boosted so that shouldn’t be too long.
I have much better idea. Considering that they damaged the Magna Charta case in order to get attention for their “The government is breaking the law” statement and claimed this has to be done because “We must get things in proportion. The abundance of life on earth, the climate stability that allows civilisation to continue is what must be revered and protected above all else, even above our most precious artefacts.”, they should be put through a public tribunal where they’d have to explain how reducing the UK contribution to CO₂ in the atmophere to zero can accomplish that, with “UK contributition to …” being put into its proper perspective relative to “Indian contribution to …”, ie, spelled out long it’ll take India to put more CO₂ in the atmosphere than reduction of the UK contribution removed. Behind them should be a prominent display of energy prices in the UK with and without subsidies paid to windfarm owners etc and member of the audience would be asked to express their conviction that the justification didn’t or did make sense by throwing or not throwing any number tomatoes which would be provided for free in generous quantities. This should also be televised by the BBC and Packham should be required to present it.
Good idea.
My son equated them to ‘Chickens for KFC’. I don’t think that’s original to him but it has a certain something which is better than ‘Turkeys for Christmas’.
Vote Israel on Saturday.
Nothing to do with with the China take over of the Suez area and the fight for world hegemony with the USA then? Nor the oil reserves off the Gaza coast. No, no. Nor the proposed Ben Gurion canal through Israel from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Mediterranean via Gaza. No. Wrong think.
On the whole I agree with DS’s position (I certainly don’t want to ally myself with Greta T and BLM). However, Israel’s history since 1948 isn’t especially rosy (perhaps not quite the beacon that Will makes out?!), and many question how it was that the 7th October attack was able to take place. There are lots of questions (see Phil Warner below) – it’s not at all black and white. And do remember that Netanyahu and his government mandated the Covid jabs, even for schoolchildren (I’m pretty sure), so they don’t have the good of their own people at heart!
Keep on supporting Israel and Jewish people everywhere. If you want to read how bad it can become, read “The School That Escaped the Nazis” by Deborah Cadbury. Man’s inhumanity to man – especially Jews – knows no bounds,
I don’t really like the Eurovision Song Contest.
But the level of bullying and intimidation this 20 year old singer from Israel is having to endure is insane.
The organisers should step in and stop it.
And I am going to vote for her:
https://www.esc.vote/
The Eurovision Song Contest was never really a serious musical event. It was supposed to just be a bit of fun with Pop Singers like Lulu, Cliff Richard, Sandie Shaw and ABBA etc singing their little tunes and each country voting for which was the best one. It was just Family Entertainment. ——-But as with most things these days, it gets hijacked for political purposes. Just as the weather is hijacked and politicised with climate junk science, and Football is hijacked where high profile players popularity is exploited and they all take the knee etc etc. so now even this little song contest is terrorised and used as a political vehicle. ——-Very sad but not such a big surprise.
I find the UK entry emetic.
I don’t care what consenting adults enjoy in private (so long as they clear up afterwards), But I have no desire to watch, thankyou very much.
Israel’s entry is certainly one of the best.
I wonder do these supporters of Hamas who use threats, intimidation and violence against those who think differently, who are not anti semitic, do you think they ever for a few seconds sit back and think”I am behaving just like the Brown shirts under Hitler”
Who would want to allow such people the voice and the ability to conduct themselves in this country or any other civilised society.
The Government has done nothing, as usual fine words from both sides, but zero actual activity.
Well on a different note, isn’t it good to see that the Covid masks have finally found their true symbolism, cowardice, hatred, violence and intolerance. A new version of the swastika
“Some Daily Sceptic readers wonder why the editorial line here tends to be supportive of Israel.”
Not this DS reader. Preach it Will, Toby et al!
I’m still fathoming why anyone would hold, or want to go to, a Eurovision gig.
Eurovision turned into a parody of itself over 20 years ago.