charlie

Rock Band Enter Shikari on Gaza at the Reading Festival, "15 years ago I wore a t-shirt on stage with big print which said Free Gaza" "Back then I was a young man who just learning about this thin strip of land on the eastern Mediterranean" "I was just learning about a people, the Palestinians, who alongside Jews and Christians have lived there for millena" "And I was just learning about the state of Israel and how it treated Palestinians as second class citizens, subjecting them to constant intimidation, humiliation, subjugation and forced them to live in what was often described an open air prison - that was 15 years ago" "We've all seen how f*cking horrific things have got now" "We've seen the firepower equivalent of six Hiroshina atomic bombs dropped on Gaza in the last two years" "Ever single school and university destroyed" "Almost 300 journalists murdered" "Doctors, killed, maimed, detained" "Children shot in the head by snipers" "This is not a tragedy, a national disaster" "This is a coordinated, mass displacement, mass starvation, an mass murder of the Palestinians in Gaza" "This is not a tragedy, it is a war crime" "If you're watching this live streamed genocide on your phone and your heart breaks every day, take strength in knowing you still have your humanity left" "Enter Shikari would like to express their solidarity with the Jewish people, Muslim, Christian, Atheist, and everyone around the world who demands an end to this atrocity" "Open the borders and let the aid into Gaza now" "Stop supporting and arming Israel now" "Just play music, no politics, play music, no politics. We've had that for 20 years now and we've ignored it. And I'll tell you why" "To be silent in times of atrocity, is to assist in maintaining that atrocity" "A great Jewish sage one said: it is not the duty of you alone to heal this world, but you should not refrain from trying"