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browngonzo888 · 1 year

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Who else would have done all his ink?

#psychonauts #razputin aquato #dogen boole #edgar teglee #tattoo art #tattoos #psychonauts 2000 #psychonauts ain’t dead #psychonauts au #grown raz #grown dogen #older Edgar #Raz supports artists #headcannon

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lordoftherazzles · 11 months

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Thank you for answering my anon. It made me feel much better and I decided to keep my fics on AO3.

Hey! I'm glad it made you feel better, and I'm so happy to hear you decided to keep your work on ao3.

AI is scary, especially when it comes to how quickly it is morphing and taking over the creative spaces we all love. It's not going to stop me from posting my work, but I will take even the smallest precautions in keeping that work safe :)

A little risk is worth the reward, and I have been thinking about your earlier ask a lot today - so I'll say it again, I am SO HAPPY you decided to keep your stuff on the archive.

💜 Keep creating, my friend!

#raz answers #anon asks #this makes my heart so full #gonna plug in here to support fanworks creators!!#we need all the support we can get right now #Fan artists and fanfic authors it doesn't matter #support them and keep creating!

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omnianightclub · 5 days

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⟣𝜗 SK8BOARD graphics!!!

╲﹒⟢ㅤart creds: silly_jpg on twitter

﹒︵ㅤfree 2 use and edit with creds

﹒𝜗ㅤi know my character on here is 7mk0 medkit but my fav character is actually skate... Sorry guys /jㅤ—raz

my fav character and roblox artist combined no way!!!

also, might seem stupid but zey doesnt actually do graphics, i just made him a replycon so he can stay there as my emotional support and make random posts.... "Why?" Cause he wanted to join in!!! "Yea but why???" CAUSE ITS FUN IDK?? I didnt ask him💔💔 /j

#╲ raz !!!#graphics #skateboard #skateboard phighting #phighting graphics #phighting!#phighting #rentry stuff #rentry resources #rentry graphics #rentry decor #red graphics #roblox graphics #skateboard graphics #silly_jpg

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woowonjaeaomg · 1 month

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GRAY, Woo Won Jae, Lee Hi and GooseBumps Leave AOMG

Update: Simon Dominic Left AOMG in Feb.2024

Update 2: Code Kunst Leaves AOMG

[Note: Details on all the artists that have left or currently staying are noted in the timeline below this announcement message. And all AOMG announcements regarding the artists are more or less the same as the one stated below.]

“Hello, this is AOMG.

We would like to inform you that the exclusive contracts with our artists Gray, Woo Won Jae, Lee Hi, and GooseBumps have expired.

Thank you for the interest and love you have shown so far, and we ask for your continued love in the future.

AOMG will support Gray, Woo Won Jae, Lee Hi, and GooseBumps on their new challenges.

Thank you.”

Translation cr.

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Original text:

“안녕하세요, AOMG입니다.

소속 아티스트 그레이, 우원재, 이하이, 구스범스의 전속계약이 종료되었음을 알려드립니다.

그동안 여러분의 많은 관심과 사랑에 감사드리며, 앞으로도 변함없는 큰 사랑 부탁드립니다. AOMG는 그레이, 우원재, 이하이, 구스범스의 새로운 도전을 응원합니다.

감사합니다.”

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- Late September, 2013: Jay Park founded AOMG. Signed artists - singer and producer GRAY, composer Jun Goon, and producer Cha Cha Malone

- October 10, 2013: AOMG launch party

- Artists Elo, Loco, Ugly Duck, DJ Wegun, DJ Pumkin, and Hoody joined AOMG over the next two years

- March 9, 2014: Months after leaving Amoeba Culture, Simon Dominic joins AOMG as Co-CEO

- January 6, 2016: CJ E&M media company announced that it had formed a partnership with AOMG. This news comes a few months after CJ E&Ms acquisition of Paloalto's Hi-Lite Records label. Jay Park also took the news to Twitter to reassure fans that it would not affect AOMG and its artists in any way, referring to it as a strategic partnership through investment in shares

- June 5, 2017: H1GHR Music label is founded by Jay Park alongside producer Cha Cha Malone. Signed artists - Yultron, Sik-K, pH-1, Woodie GoChild. Producers Woogie, GroovyRoom, DJ SMMT. The following Seattle artists were also signed - Avatar Darko, Raz Simone, Phe Reds, Jarv Dee

- June 8, 2017: Golden (formerly known as G.Soul) signed with H1GHR Music following his contract expiration with JYP Entertainment

- October 30, 2017: Woo Won Jae joins AOMG

- 2018: Ted Park joins H1GHR Music

- April 2018: HAON joins H1GHR Music, soon after winning the show “High School Rapper 2”

- May 10, 2018: AOMG signs management contract with UFC fighter "Korean Zombie" Jung Chan Sung

- June 11, 2018: Producer Code Kunst joins AOMG

- July 25, 2018: Simon Dominic resigns as co-CEO of AOMG with his song "Me No Jay Park". Soon after, DJ Pumkin becomes co-CEO of AOMG alongside Jay Park

- 2019: BIG Naughty joins H1GHR Music

- March 3, 2019: Mokyo joins H1GHR Music

- August 2019: AOMG's first hip-hop audition show “Signhere” began airing on MBN

- November 1, 2019: After winning in the audition show “Signhere” Sogumm joins AOMG

- November 6, 2019: Punchnello joins AOMG

- Late 2019: Jarv Dee leaves H1HGR Music

- April 8, 2020: DeVita joins AOMG

- June, 2020: Mokyo leaves H1GHR Music after contract expired

- July 20, 2020: Trade L joins H1GHR Music

- July 24, 2020: Lee Hi joins AOMG after her departure from YG Entertainment

- September 4, 2020: Producer GooseBumps joins AOMG

- January 9, 2021: Golden (G.Soul) leaves H1GHR Music following his contract expiration

- February 18, 2021: Yugyeom, a member of South Korean boy group Got7, joins AOMG following his departure from JYP Entertainment in January 2021. Fellow member JAY B joins H1GHR Music in May of the same year

- March 2021: GroovyRoom launches new label called AREA, in partnership with the H1GHR Music label

- December 31, 2021: Jay Park announced his resignation as the Co-CEO of AOMG

- January 25, 2022: Coogie joins AOMG

- March 3, 2022: Jay Park established a new label called “More Vision”. Currently signed artists are Honey J, Jessi and Chung Ha

- July 25, 2022: JAY B and Sik-K leave H1GHR Music after their contracts had expired

- October 24, 2022: Jvcki Wai joins AOMG

- February 14, 2023: As her contract expired, Sogumm departs from the label

- April 1, 2023: Cartoonist Kian84 joins AOMG. Unclear if this is a management or artist contract but all sources confirm that he has joined AOMG

- April 24, 2023: AOMG established sublabel Solabeam Records that consists of DJs and producers

- May 8, 2023: HAON leaves H1GHR Music and joins Sik-K’s agency “KC”

- November 9, 2023: Meenoi joins AOMG

- February 27, 2024: GooseBumps announces that he’s leaving AOMG

- February 2024: Simon Dominic and the music label came to a mutual agreement to terminate his contract. The contract is still effective and both sides will continue with activities while sorting contract termination matters out. Details here

- March 6, 2024: The controversy surrounding Meenoi, AOMG, and her advertising contract with a cosmetic brand company escalates. Dispatch gets involved. Details here

- March 13, 2024: DJ Pumkin resigns as CEO of AOMG. He has reportedly thought of resigning for some time. Yoo Deok Geon is the new CEO of AOMG. Yoo Deok Geon is an old manager of Jay Park and the current CEO of H1GHR Music

- March 28, 2024: After their contracts had expired, GRAY, Woo Won Jae, and Lee Hi all announce that they are leaving AOMG. [Official Announcement]

- April 10, 2024: AOMG makes an apology statement regarding the Meenoi controversy. [Official Announcement]

- April 22, 2024: An AOMG official confirms that Simon Dominic terminated his contract back in February 2024

- April 25, 2024: The contract between Code Kunst and AOMG has ended. AOMG announced that they have parted ways with the artist. [Official Announcement]

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good-old-gossip · 9 days

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Germany's journey from Nazi Germany to Zionazi Germany

“Germany is promoting only those Jews who are willing to produce anti-Muslim discourse. Jews who do not perceive Muslims as such are being marked as a threat not just to the German nation but to Jews themselves.” Udi Raz, 34, is sitting in a cafe in Berlin, where he lives, reflecting on a turbulent six months.

Since Israel’s war on Gaza began following the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October, Raz, an Israeli Jew raised in Haifa, has been fired from his job and had the activist group he’s part of labelled antisemitic by Germany’s official antisemitism commissioner.

Last Friday, German authorities arrested Raz, a board member of Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, after they cancelled and then banned the group’s three-day conference on Palestine.

The conference, which was set to feature notable speakers including former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and leading British-Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah, was cancelled by Berlin police within its first two hours on Friday.

“They came in and blocked the screening of a recorded video message, then they broke into the control room and switched off the electricity for the whole building with hundreds of people inside,” Raz told Middle East Eye.

The recorded video message was from Abu-Sittah, who had been detained after landing in Germany. The doctor told MEE that, in a basement room in Berlin’s airport, he was questioned for three and a half hours. At the end of the interrogation, Abu-Sittah, who spent 43 days during the war treating patients in Gaza’s al-Ahli and al-Shifa hospitals, was told by German authorities that he was not allowed on German soil, that this ban would last for the whole of April and that if he tried to dial into the conference remotely – or send a video message to be played at it – that would constitute a breach in German law that could see him face up to a year in prison. Nadija Samour, a lawyer involved with the conference, said organisers had not been “given anything in writing about why the event was being cancelled.

We had been cooperating with the police through everything, nothing said or done at the venue was illegal. From the very beginning, it was clear that there would be attempts by the police to shut the conference down." “A speaker was projected who was subject to a ban on political activity,” Berlin police said on social media after closing the conference down.

In the last six months, German authorities have continued to crack down on the Palestine solidarity movement in Germany, including silencing several high-profile Jewish intellectuals, academics and artists. The country’s responsibility for the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were murdered by Germany’s Nazi government, and its post-war “staatsrason”, or reason of state, a principle that places support for Israel at the core of Germany's national identity, have contributed to an atmosphere in which even Jews are now regularly branded antisemitic for criticising Israel. Raz, who is a leading Jewish peace activist in Berlin, has been twice detained, labelled an antisemite, lost his job, and his organisation has had its bank account frozen, as well as being branded antisemitic by Germany’s antisemitism commissioner.

The Israeli says there were clear signs that authorities in Berlin would try and shut down the event. “The Berlin Senate had been trying for the past few weeks to stop the Palestine Congress from going forward - one of the strategies they used was to freeze our bank account. For weeks, we had been collecting donations and tickets receipts for the Palestine Congress.

We still dont have access to those funds.” Raz says that Jewish Voice for a Just Peace is constantly reminding Germans of the structural inequalities and the genocide being carried out in Palestine. “We want everyone to be treated equally, we want human rights and international law to be respected. That makes the German state very uncomfortable; they are OK with the apartheid regime and its genocidal crimes,” he says. Jewish Voice for a Just Peace has been campaigning for an immediate end to hostilities in Gaza and demanding that the German government suspend diplomatic, economic support and weapons sales to Israel. Raz told MEE that he feels there exists a clear disparity in the treatment of pro-Zionist and anti-Zionist Jews in Germany.

“Whenever I had the opportunity to speak from my own perspective, I was allowed to speak only to the extent that I had something bad to say about Palestinians, about Arabs, about Muslims. Whenever that was not the case, and I brought up the Palestinian narrative, insititutions were pointing at me and accusing me of antisemitism.”

Previously a tour guide at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Raz was fired for referring to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank as “apartheid” on tours. Since 7 October, several Jewish groups, academics, artists and human rights activists – including Israelis like Berlinale-winning journalist Yuval Abraham, who was branded an antisemite in Germany - have called out Germany for suppressing any criticism of Israel's war in Gaza and the Palestine solidarity movement in the country.

Last week, a leading Jewish American philosopher, Nancy Fraser, was disinvited from taking up a professorship at the University of Cologne after signing a letter expressing solidarity with Palestinians and condemning the killings in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces. In December, Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen was at the centre of a similar controversy after official German sponsors removed their support for the Hannah Arendt Prize – which was being awarded to Gessen – because of a New Yorker article in which which the Jewish writer drew a comparison between conditions in Gaza today and the Warsaw Ghetto. Raz told MEE that while growing up in Haifa, he was aware of two distinct realities that existed in that region between the Jewish and Palestinian population.

“I did not feel comfortable there. For me, the act of emigrating from Israel and landing in Germany was an act of finding my own home, where everyone was equal and human rights were respected.” Soon after moving to Berlin in 2010, Raz says, he felt that he was being celebrated by cultural institutions and politicians because of his Jewish heritage.

“However, I did soon realise that, while in Germany my Jewishness was being celebrated, I felt like a second-class citizen, so I found more in common with other minority religious groups.” He adds that while he did feel excluded, he was constantly reminded that being an Israeli Jew he had easier access to higher social standing in German society because he embodied a “superior” white western European heritage.

“Today, Jews in Germany are being divided along political lines: if you are a conscientious Jew, not willing to support a genocide in your name and wanting to speak out against it, you will be persecuted in this country, and if you are happy with the hate and the genocide being carried out then you can live in peace and enjoy your privilege,” he says.

When asked about the future, Raz draws on his family’s history and suggests quietly that his days in Germany might be numbered, while firing off a warning to Jews wanting to settle here.

“My grandparents lived in Lithuania before the Second World War. I often ask myself that, as the Nazis marched into Lithuania, at what point did my grandparents decide that it’s time to leave, and then eventually at what point in time did they realised that it's perhaps too late to leave?” His head hanging down, Raz says, with a defeated look, that space for Jews in Germany to express their political opinions safely and openly is shrinking.

“All this is happening under a Social Democrat government; you can only imagine what will happen when the far-right AfD comes to power. “My request to all my Jewish brothers and sisters is that, if you are considering moving to Germany, think twice.”

✍️ by : Sal Ahmed

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CONTRIBUTOR LINEUP - Page & Merch Artists

Last but certainly not least we are so excited to announce our third and final batch of contributors, our page & merch artists for Paths Cross Again: Seasons! From bookmarks, to pins, and prints these crafty folks can do it all. This lovely group of folks are working hard to draw, and paint the lovely works of art you’ll see in our zine, and we cannot wait to reveal their hard work to you!

Find their social media below, and go give them your support!

Dozer| twitter | instagram

Sternengreif| twitter | instagram | tumblr

Raz| twitter | tumblr

Retro-Jupiter| tumblr | ao3

Godtier1| twitter | instagram | tumblr | ao3

Caf| instagram | tumblr

Pardal|: twitter | instagram | tumblr

Cakes| tumblr | instagram

Bird| tumblr | ao3 | yourstrangebird.com

SpashAHoney

Misha| instagram | tumblr

ProfDrLachfinger| instagram | twitter | tumblr

Fox| tumblr | instagram

Ing| instagram | twitter | tumblr

Dio| tumblr | twitter

Eurydia| instagram | tumblr

Allison| twitter | instagram | tumblr

Din| twitter | instagram | ao3

Jess | twitter | instagram

Maia| instagram | twitter | tumblr

Shippymans| instagram

Ana| twitter | instagram

Vinnie| twitter | instagram | tumblr

Kit Liu| instagram |twitter

#DinCobb Zine #zine contributors #mod post #DinCobb

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that-60s-jazz-song · 10 months

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viva la @stargarnet03

hello stargartnet03!!

i would like to politely inform you that what you're saying is incorrect :)

the horrible, awful BAD ship that MrPrestto was jokingly endorsing is Sam x Raz.

Sam is 12, max.

Raz is 10.

lili is 11, and raz is 10. does shipping them make me and alot of other people and doublefine a proshipper?

Yes, it's morally not okay but still not that bad.

You also blocked him for no reason, and left both of the servers you were in that had anything to do with him. He didn't do anything to you.

MrPrestto does not support proshippers. no one in that server supports proshippers. just because there is a singular proshipper in the main Psychonauts server, does not mean that we support proshippers. if it were up to me, i'd ban her. but it's not, so i just blocked the proshipper (who doesn't even talk in the server to begin with) and moved on.

so, instead of talking to him, and saying "hey! this is kind of strange and this makes me uncomfortable" you blocked him and decided to publicly spread rumors about him!!! really shows off your maturity boo

i've also been informed by more than one person that you were kind of stalkerish lol!

also:

where are you when people talk about Sasha x Milla x Raz? Or Frazie x Norma? or any pedophilic ship? or the several people who draw sam zoophilia art?

instead, you choose to pick on a small artist who is neurodivergent and also an actual minor.

your bio says you're 20.

adults picking on minors? that sure does sound like something you would advocate against!!

too long didn't read:

stargarnet03 is lying about someone who didn't do anything seriously wrong lol! go support him his art is fire @mrprestto

btw i support you lizzie x norma girlies !! their point is that minor x minor BAD but those two are minors and so are lili and raz so ?!?!

ALSO LOL Adam was gonna be Lili's EX.

adam is probably the oldest intern

lili is 11

adam is 14 max

holy shit guys grooming proshipper action going on here!

anyway yeah. where's your post about that, starcunt?

soooooo yeah

giggles and blushes

watch her call me racist or something LMAOOOOO

#i hate doing stuff like this #ugh #psychonauts drama #stargarnet03 #mrprestto #justice for my man prestto he didnt do anything

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bopsweneverforgot · 9 months

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Marques Houston: How “Cancellation” Transforms A Fan’s Listening Experience

Beyonce once spoke on how social media and celebrity culture transform how consumers enjoy their work. Instead of judging their art, we now begin to feel their work based on what we know about their lives. As time has passed and information has become more accessible, visibility of how fans directly finance luxurious celebrity lifestyles has transitioned music fans to investors. And investors have a right to know what their funds are allocated to, right?

The average person may say R. Kelly’s cancellation has changed their listening experience the most (and rightfully so. He’s paved the way for so many to be canceled after him). However, in my world of delulu, Marques Houston’s cancellation has been one of the most uncanny. With the compilation of revelations of his 20-year age-gap marriage with a formerly missing teenager, his proximity to Chris Stokes, his sexual abuse allegations from B2K member Raz B, and his recent dissolution of the fake brotherhood he once shared with Omarion has simply baffled me.

Many laugh when I tell them how much of an avid admirer of Marques Houston’s musical catalog I am. However, from an investor’s standpoint I’m extremely disappointed and couldn’t give one Chuck E. Cheese token towards a tour or any branded merchandise to support the things I know to be true. Yet I would be a liar if I didn’t tell you if “Do You Mind” isn’t #43 on my most played song of 2022 on Apple Music. In similar R.Kelly fashion, his work has spanned over decades from his days as a member of Immature to the 2000s as he transitioned to be a solo artist. And to add insult to injury, he’s played pivotal roles in film and television from playing Roger in “Sister,Sister” to playing Elgin in “U Got Served”.

Many people scoff at the “separate the art for the artist” mindset because supporting problematic artists’ work enables their problematic behavior to flourish and capability to harm others. However, the gift and curse of today’s music consumption model of streaming disrupts the once lucrative business model it once was. As we see time and time again, without a true, die-hard fan supporting artists directly in purchasing their merchandise or concert tickets, an artist suffers. Unfortunately, my #43 spot on my Replay 2022 playlist on Apple Music will not subsidize Marques’s lifestyle in the same way if I bought the Naked album in 2005. What both artists and fans/investors have to remember is that music is art and art can be a form of therapy. The memories of singing “Naked” on repeat to my ex in high school on Facetime or adding “Exclusively” and “I Don’t Mind” to my love manifestation playlist to reframe what love looked like in my life in my budding adulthood will never change. His music is associated to so many moments in my life and his talent is undeniable. However, like streaming, social media has been a gift and a curse as well. It had been a tool for fans to better connect with artists yet a microscope to highlight their darkest moments we may have never known if it occurred in 1975.

As celebrity culture is dying as it becomes more accessible to an array of influencers and a plethora of random viral sensations, celebrities rely on public image and likeability to create die-hard fans to support their livelihood in an impactful way. Artists are simply humans with humanistic qualities who just happen to be famous. On the other hand, as regular people are battling the economic landscape post-pandemic coupled with the crippling state of inflation, any dollar a fan puts toward an artist is a huge investment. As music is therapy for most people, fans want to financially and morally support celebrities they identify with and who inspire them. As artists keep that in mind in their work, they’ll understand behaving ethically and morally in today’s social climate is vital to thrive in the music business and to preserve a fan’s listening experience.

#marques houston #r&b playlist #r&b/soul #early 2000s

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vio-the-creator · 1 year

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From pants.....to no pants! Freeedom!! Phew this took a while to finish but.

Storytime: Raz wasnt always the confident bi boy. In his early adulthood (20-21) After being a huge disappoint to his parents for most of his teen years he was ready to settle and just be the family's heir to the business, bit his parents wouldn't make it east. He had gotten in through a regular warehouse job and was supposed to work up to being the head manager.

....Well, let just say Raz played their game for a little while and he managed to move up quickly but after a while he couldnt stand it boring monotonous desk jon anymore and broke down in front of his parents.

Begging to quit and pursue his passions of being an artist and videogame developer. And with a sigh the parents let him go and told him they still love and support him.

Nowadays Raz is a confident replian intent on not letting anyone stop him from pursuing his dreams (while also having fun along the way 👀)

#anthro oc #anthro #replianoc #conceptart #furry oc #vioreplians #replians

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xtruss · 9 days

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Germany is Promoting Only Those Jews Who are Willing to Produce Anti-Muslim Discourse. Jews Who Do Not Perceive Muslims as Such are Being Marked as a Threat Not Just to the German Nation But to Jews Themselves.

Udi Raz, 34, is sitting in a cafe in Berlin, where he lives, reflecting on a turbulent six months. Since Israel's war on Gaza began following the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October, Raz, an Israeli Jew raised in Haifa, has been fired from his job and had the activist group he's part of labelled antisemitic by Germany's official antisemitism commissioner.

Last Friday, German authorities arrested Raz, a board member of Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, after they cancelled and then banned the group's three-day conference on Palestine.

The conference, which was set to feature notable speakers including former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and leading British-Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah, was cancelled by Berlin police within its first two hours on Friday.

They came in and blocked the screening of a recorded video message, then they broke into the control room and switched off the electricity for the whole building with hundreds of people inside," Raz told Middle East Eye.

The recorded video message was from Abu-Sittah, who had been detained after landing in Germany. The doctor told MEE that, in a basement room in Berlin's airport, he was questioned for three and a half hours.

At the end of the interrogation, Abu-Sittah, who spent 43 days during the war treating patients in Gaza's al-Ahli and al-Shifa hospitals, was told by German authorities that he was not allowed on German soil, that this ban would last for the whole of April and that if he tried to dial into the conference remotely - or send a video message to be played at it - that would constitute a breach in German law that could see him face up to a year in prison.

Nadija Samour, a lawyer involved with the conference, said organisers had not been given anything in writing about why the event was being cancelled. We had been cooperating with the police through everything, nothing said or done at the venue was illegal. From the very beginning, it was clear that there would be attempts by the police to shut the conference down.

A speaker was projected who was subject to a ban on political activity, Berlin police said on social media after closing the conference down. In the last six months, German authorities have continued to crack down on the Palestine solidarity movement in Germany, including silencing several high-profile Jewish intellectuals, academics and artists.

The country's responsibility for the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were murdered by Germany's Nazi government, and its post-war "staatsrason", or reason of state, a principle that places support for Israel at the core of Germany's national identity, have contributed to an atmosphere in which even Jews are now regularly branded antisemitic for criticising Israel.

Raz, who is a leading Jewish peace activist in Berlin, has been twice detained, labelled an antisemite, lost his job, and his organisation has had its bank account frozen, as well as being branded antisemitic by Germany's antisemitism commissioner.

The Israeli says there were clear signs that authorities in Berlin would try and shut down the event. "The Berlin Senate had been trying for the past few weeks to stop the Palestine Congress from going forward - one of the strategies they used was to freeze our bank account. For weeks, we had been collecting donations and tickets receipts for the Palestine Congress. We still dont have access to those funds."

Raz says that Jewish Voice for a Just Peace is constantly reminding Germans of the structural inequalities and the genocide being carried out in Palestine. We want everyone to be treated equally, we want human rights and international law to be respected. That makes the German state very uncomfortable; they are OK with the apartheid regime and its genocidal crimes, he says.

Jewish Voice for a Just Peace has been campaigning for an immediate end to hostilities in Gaza and demanding that the German government suspend diplomatic, economic support and weapons sales to Israel. Raz told MEE that he feels there exists a clear disparity in the treatment of pro-Zionist and anti-Zionist Jews in Germany.

Whenever I had the opportunity to speak from my own perspective, I was allowed to speak only to the extent that I had something bad to say about Palestinians, about Arabs, about Muslims. Whenever that was not the case, and I brought up the Palestinian narrative, institutions were pointing at me and accusing me of antisemitism.

Previously a tour guide at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Raz was fired for referring to Israel's occupation of the West Bank as "apartheid" on tours. Since 7 October, several Jewish groups, academics, artists and human rights activists - including Israelis like Berlinale-winning journalist Yuval Abraham, who was branded an antisemite in Germany - have called out Germany for suppressing any criticism of Israel's war in Gaza and the Palestine solidarity movement in the country.

Last week, a leading Jewish American philosopher, Nancy Fraser, was disinvited from taking up a professorship at the University of Cologne after signing a letter expressing solidarity with Palestinians and condemning the killings in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces.

In December, Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen was at the centre of a similar controversy after official German sponsors removed their support for the Hannah Arendt Prize - which was being awarded to Gessen - because of a New Yorker article in which which the Jewish writer drew a comparison between conditions in Gaza today and the Warsaw Ghetto.

Raz told MEE that while growing up in Haifa, he was aware of two distinct realities that existed in that region between the Jewish and Palestinian population. I did not feel comfortable there. For me, the act of emigrating from Israel and landing in Germany was an act of finding my own home, where everyone was equal and human rights were respected. Soon after moving to Berlin in 2010, Raz says, he felt that he was being celebrated by cultural institutions and politicians because of his Jewish heritage.

However, I did soon realise that, while in Germany my Jewishness was being celebrated, I felt like a second-class citizen, so I found more in common with other minority religious groups. He adds that while he did feel excluded, he was constantly reminded that being an Israeli Jew he had easier access to higher social standing in German society because he embodied a "superior" white western European heritage.

Today, Jews in Germany are being divided along political lines: if you are a conscientious Jew, not willing to support a genocide in your name and wanting to speak out against it, you will be persecuted in this country, and if you are happy with the hate and the genocide being carried out then you can live in peace and enjoy your privilege, he says.

When asked about the future, Raz draws on his family's history and suggests quietly that his days in Germany might be numbered, while firing off a warning to Jews wanting to settle here.

My grandparents lived in Lithuania before the Second World War. I often ask myself that, as the Nazis marched into Lithuania, at what point did my grandparents decide that it's time to leave, and then eventually at what point in time did they realised that it's perhaps too late to leave?

His head hanging down, Raz says, with a defeated look, that space for Jews in Germany to express their political opinions safely and openly is shrinking.

All this is happening under a Social Democrat government; you can only imagine what will happen when the far-right AfD comes to power. My request to all my Jewish brothers and sisters is that, if you are considering moving to Germany, think twice.

— ✍️ Sal Ahmed

#Middle East Eye 👁️#News 🗞️#Opinion | ✍️ Sal Ahmed #Germany 🇩🇪 | German Pro-Muslims Jews

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priokskfm · 4 months

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#MixOfDay #Podcast #Radioshow #LiveDjset Deepology Podcast #078 | Nixxie Deepology Podcast №078   Mixed & compiled by Nixxie Support the artist by following ↓ @nixxieofficial Tracklist: 01. 3 (I Used To Sleep) - Alto Bloom, Iron Curtis 02. Mr. Shrumy (Original Mix) - Raz 03. Tapping - Dubfound 04. PettaZeeta (Original Mix) - WLAD, BizZa 05. Dialog - Sante Sansone 06. Rap In Plane (Original Mix) - Kirik 07. Spring Girl - Adam Ten & Maori 08. Can You Feel (Minz Remix) - Ken Hayakawa 09. Gliese 710 - Legit Trip 10. Do JC - EdiP 11. I Wanna Party - Henriku & Alexander Skancke 12. In Der Nacht (feat. Karl Michael) [Joyce Muniz Rework] - Joyce Muniz www.priokskfm.online https://ift.tt/SsovQew

#Priokskfm #mixofaday #Deepology #SoundCloud

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lordoftherazzles · 11 months

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Thanks for encouraging people to keep fics on ao3! I don’t know why but I cannot read fics on tumblr. I don’t know if the format or what :(

And with multi chapters it’s pretty much impossible to keep up with on here I know it’s probably a me problem so no hate on anyone just my two cents lol.

Nothing but love to all fic writers out there💕

Hey Anon!!

Of course, I completely understand where you're coming from. Tumblr is not my first choice of a place to read fic - though sometimes I do depending on what it is or what it's for etc.

Some platforms are easier to keep track of various works/creations, and some are just easier to -see- depending on the format etc. Everyone's got a favorite, it's definitely not a "you" problem, because I'm the same way haha.

Fan works are important to any fandom, and the more support we can give those creators the better, especially during this time of AI bullshit. 💜💜💜

Thanks for dropping into my inbox!!

#raz answers #anon asks #support fanworks creators!#fan artists and writers alike!

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wildmonkeysects · 6 months

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Art and the Cancel Culture Club

Maybe Hollywood owes Mel Gibson an apology.

There is no shadowy Zionist cartel in the Art and Entertainment industries calling the shots. Nope. They are not shadowy at all, they are blatantly visible.

This compassionate, articulate statement gets the Editor in chief of Artforum since 2005 fired, with a rather vague disclaimer published about “one sided” by three staffers.

AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE ART COMMUNITY TO CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS

By the undersigned

October 19, 2023 5:29 pm

[ CYA disclaimer ] "The following letter reflects the views of the undersigned individual parties and was not composed, directed, or initiated by Artforum or its staff."

THE ARTS COMMUNITY is diverse and crosses borders, nationalities, systems of faith and belief. We as artists, writers, curators, filmmakers, publishers, and workers who create the core around which institutions and organizations revolve need to be assured that these are not just safe but humane spaces.

We support Palestinian liberation and call for an end to the killing and harming of all civilians, an immediate ceasefire, the passage of humanitarian aid into Gaza, and the end of the complicity of our governing bodies in grave human rights violations and war crimes.

We demand that the institutional silence around the ongoing humanitarian crisis that 2.3 million Palestinians are facing in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip be broken immediately. In the words of the UN resident humanitarian coordinator for the occupied Palestinian Territory, “It’s about the loss of our humanity if the international community allows this to continue. What we are seeing now is simply inhumane.”

Silence at this urgent time of crisis and escalating genocide is not a politically neutral position. Over the last few years there have been significant steps to institutionally address social justice and inequality. Your artistic programs benefit from these politics. We now ask that they continue and be extended in recognizing the crimes against humanity that the Palestinian people are facing.

The ongoing bombing of Gaza and the killing and forced displacement of its residents has been condemned by Amnesty International, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and Action Aid. These, among other global bodies, have indicated that the collective punishment of Gaza civilians—which includes the killing of aid workers, journalists, and medics, as well as the destruction of all infrastructure and life-sustaining resources, cutting off water, food, electricity, and medicine—amounts to a war crime.

There is ample evidence that we are witnessing the unfolding of a genocide in which the already precarious lives of Palestinians are deemed unworthy of aid, let alone human rights and justice. With impunity, Israel has already undertaken three of the five defining acts outlined by the United Nations Genocide Convention. As Raz Segal, an Israeli historian and scholar of genocide, writes, “Israel has also intensified its 16-year siege of Gaza—the longest in modern history, in clear violation of international humanitarian law—to a ‘complete siege.’” This directive to accomplish the systemic destruction of Palestinians and Palestine society in Gaza comes directly from Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who has described his targets in degraded terms, as “human animals.”

We, the undersigned, reject violence against all civilians, regardless of their identity, and we call for ending the root cause of violence: oppression, and the occupation. We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We ask arts organizations to show solidarity with cultural workers and call on our governments to demand an immediate ceasefire and the opening of Gaza’s crossings to allow humanitarian aid to enter unhindered.

We believe that the arts organizations and institutions whose mission it is to protect freedom of expression, to foster education, community, and creativity, also stand for freedom of life and the basic right of existence. We call on you to refuse inhumanity, which has no place in life or art, and make a public demand from our governments to call for a ceasefire.

#artforum #israel #zionist #gaza #palestine #apartheid

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thetoxicgamer · 8 months

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Gabby Durden says she won’t be a part of the 2024 LCS broadcast team

After finally making her debut as a permanent member of the LCS broadcast team this year, Gabby Durden will no longer be a part of the league in 2024, she announced today. The North American play-by-play announcer said she wanted to wait until the LCS season was officially over before speaking to the public and thanked all of the people who supported her throughout her time as one of the primary voices for the game. https://twitter.com/iamGabbyDurden/status/1696568678345564291 “I’m grateful to League of Legends esports for inspiring my pursuit of this career nearly a decade ago,” Durden said on social media. “Since then, I’ve been so grateful to spend my time immersing myself in the many communities brought together through gaming. I’m stoked to stay connected with everyone as a broadcaster and music artist.” Durden was given her first chance with League esports back in 2019 when she was invited to host the Collegiate League of Legends World Championship and, later that year, host interviews during the LCS Summer Split. Eventually, her efforts helped push her to the main stage, where she made her first foray into the world of play-by-play alongside iconic voices like Isaac “Azael” Cummings-Bentley, Barento “Raz” Mohammed, and Joshua “Jatt” Leesman. Her time in the LCS has been plagued by a few difficult moments, though, including one controversy where the LCS ran a segment around the feud between TSM and superstar AD carry Doublelift. The star AD carry was just making his return to pro play after retiring in 2020, but the broadcast featured Durden speaking about the alleged abuse of TSM players and staff members in what many fans considered an “unprofessional and tone-deaf” segment. In the wake of that backlash, Durden decided to step away from the broadcast for a mental health break after receiving multiple hate messages from anonymous people in the community. Even still, Durden showed poise and class in every situation that she found herself in, along with a ton of potential in a very difficult role. She will now move forward to explore the next steps in her career, whether it’s in esports or beyond. Read the full article

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coghive · 2 years

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Super Friends Praise Fest Hosts A Power-Packed Night Of Gospel’s Biggest Hitmakers

This weekend, Atlanta’s Award-winning State Farm Arena hosted the biggest gospel concert of the year: Super Friends Praise Fest. The show’s lineup included Yolanda Adams, Erica Campbell, Tye Tribbett, Marvin Sapp, Keke Wyatt, Jekalyn Carr, Fred Hammond, Travis Greene, Keyondra Lockett, Le’Andria Johnson and Bishop Cortez Vaughn. The event was hosted by comedians Lexi Allen and Anna C. Douglas, with a special presentation from Pastor Jamal Bryant and surprise appearance from B2K founding member, Raz B. Thousands flocked to the arena from all over the world to enjoy a night of high praise and the celebration of gospel music. The night’s sponsors included G.L.A.M. Body Scrubs, TV One’s “Never Would’ve Made It: The Marvin Sapp Story”, Church Funny and KB Christian Apparel. Fans had plenty to say about the concert, calling it “the best show all year” and some describing it as “an epic night of gospel music.” During the show, singer Erica Campbell was presented with a Billboard plaque for her song, “Positive” which recently hit number one on the Billboard and Mediabase charts. The plaque was presented to her by her husband and producer Warren Campbell. The award marked Campbell’s first number one song as a solo artist.

Photo Credit: Paras Griffin Backstage, Pastor Jamal Bryant was presented with a special Hawks jersey with his name embroidered on the back. In response to the evening, Super Friends Praise Fest’s executive team added, “We would like to thank State Farm Arena, our production team, each artist, hosts and their teams for putting together an incredible show. Thank you to all of the guests that came out to support and create an electrifying night! We can’t wait to take this to other cities!” Read the full article

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