The biggest danger in Switzerland is that you might wander into the wrong shop and have to empty your wallet and sell a kidney to pay for your muffin and coffee.
There were some Eurovision-related anti-Israeli demonstrations in Switzerland last week. That’s probably the State Department’s excuse.
Then they will have to warn US-Americans not to travel to Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Belgium… And it was not really about Eurovision and Israel trying to cheat its way into victory, it was really about Gaza.
Norway too. And you’ll just get lutefisk with your $30 beer.
So the Trump Travel Agency can make vague, unexplained warnings that are easy to surmise.
On the map I posted all those places are Level 2’s, along with the UK. I was about to go for a run but am afraid I might run into some anti-Israel demonstrators.
Just to be sure: this is satire, right?
Aye. They’ve splintered into groups even. There’s the Anti-Judean People’s Front and The Anti-People’s Front of Judea!
I see we’re allowed to make baseless accusations here. Or are people Just Asking Questions?
Look, on my ship’s manifest we’ve got a boatload of soil freshly scraped from Ukraine and a 30 foot gold statue of some Fatass on the way to Gaza. Golf courses need to be built and they do not build themselves /s
I am not asking any question at all (except the satire related one for Coriolanus). I am saying that Israel has tried to influence the outcome of the vote in the Eurovision song contest, and almost got a mediocre song voted the winner. It made it to second, which is not bad. Congratulations! Better songs and singers scored worse.
A baseless accusation would be to claim last week’s demonstrations against Israel were because of this song contest. Very few people care about the song contest, nobody would demonstrate because of that.
And this is the Pit, so feel free to accuse me of something substantial, just calling me “people” and claiming I ask questions is a bit weak.
Can anyone explain why most of Western Europe is coded yellow? I mean, I’d be more worried going downtown on a late Saturday evening than about travelling to Sweden. Or to Germany.
How did that they do that?
Oh yeah, Mister Kush the boss man - his wife’s father is some big-shot - told man dis soil best get to Gaza on time or the same thing as happened to that bigmouth singer from New Joysey will happen on me. And that was no “accident”. Capiche? /s
Sorry! Thought of that while out for my run. Outside of London I’ve never seen any protests. And the UK is ostensibly all about a “two-state solution.”
I would like to see a ruling citing the “Stay In Your Lane” clause of the Constitution, where the judge says “what the hell does the federal government care about who a private school admits?? GTFO” but I don’t think that’ll happen.
The link I provided offers some clues. But perhaps the Times of Israel gives a more balanced account. The New Arab, on the other hand, has a different perspective. But as you live in London you may trust The Independent more. Quite frankly, I don’t give a damn about that song contest, have not watched it for decades (since ABBA won, I guess). I just call BS on Europeans demonstrating against Israel because of the Eurovision thing. The Europeans who are demonstrating against Israel do so because of Gaza.
And both Israel and - at least in my country - the Jewish communities outside Israel are doing their very best to brand legitimate critizism against Israel and the IDF as anti-semitism.
Which IMNSHO contributes to conflate legitimate political issues with anti-semitism, which again increases anti-semitism. I mean, Bibi has branded even Amnesty International as anti-semitic
Well, yeah - of course they were protesting about Gaza. I’m just saying that the massive protests in Basel a few blocks away from where the Eurovision was taking place might have had some tangential connection to the fact that the Eurovision was taking place.
As for the so-called “fraud”, it comes across as one of two things, or a combination of both: first, sour grapes on behalf of certain European countries that their songs weren’t as popular as ours; and second, disbelief by the European powers than be that there might be a large portion of Europeans who actually support Israel. Either way, it just makes y’all look like big, fat losers.
Well, thank Godott that in your eyes we are only big, fat losers and not anti-semitic.
You sure you didn’t mean “Godot”?
If not, who’s Godott?
It’s my way of saying God in English, Gott in German and Godot, the one you wait for forever, all in one word. I know it is not usual and people don’t understand it, but I like it nonetheless.
Ah. Thx.