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[ID: tweet thread by @BDSmovement.

[First tweet quote-tweets @theIMEU:

Israel is planning to demolish the *only* clinic in occupied East Jerusalem that’s providing COVID-19 vaccines and PCR tests, leaving thousands of Palestinians vulnerable as a new variant is spreading.

[@BDSmovement:

As a new variant of Covid-19 threatens us all, Israel plans to demolish the only Palestinian vaccine & PCR testing centre in illegally occupied E. Jerusalem.

Throughout the pandemic, Israel has deliberately targeted our healthcare systems, entrenching its #MedicalApartheid. 👇🏾

[quoted tweet]

[Second tweet:

Apartheid Israel’s brutal 11-day bombardment of Gaza in May partially destroyed 84 healthcare facilities, including hospitals, medical centres, pharmacies & Covid-19 testing laboratories: http://mezan.org/en/uploads/files/16261619561305.pdf

#ICC4Israel #MedicalApartheid

[Third tweet:

With a vaccine rollout underway, Israel refused to provide vaccines for 4.5M Palestinians living under its military occupation. Instead, Israel gave vaccines to countries that pledged to move diplomatic missions to occupied Jerusalem.

[Direct link to NYTimes Article “Israel Gives Vaccine to Far-Off Allies, as Palestinians Wait“ (paywalled).]

[Fourth tweet:

In March 2020, during the devastating first wave of Covid-19, apartheid Israel destroyed a health clinic serving the vulnerable Palestinian community of Khirbet Ibziq in the occupied Jordan Valley.  

https://btselem.org/press_release/20200326_israel_confiscates_clinic_tents_during_coronavirus_crisis

#MedicalApartheid

[Direct link to B’Tselem article “During the Coronavirus crisis, Israel confiscates tents designated for clinic in the Northern West Bank”.]

[Fifth tweet:

Israel is in direct violation of Article 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention which requires that Israel, the occupying power, must ensure that all necessary preventive means available to it are utilized to ‘combat the spread of contagious diseases & epidemics.’

It's non-union but it's pretty decently paid and the working conditions are generally better than on-set crews in Hollywood. Which is a low bar and there's definitely hella problems (80-hour weeks in "crunch times" that end up lasting several months. Also imho the racial pay gap can be verrrryy real in vfx.)

But all to say it's not quite as simple as union vs non-union, doing a suit in full-cg is still stupidly fucking expensive. But the cost is balanced against re-shooting every shot that that character is in. It's not about paying a costumer, it's about doing like 6 months worth of re-shoots.

Honestly to me what it comes down to is this "fix it in post" mentality getting worse and worse the more cgi is capable of, they don't feel like they have to commit to the creative processes on set anymore because hey, we'll just change it if we don't like it anymore.

It's non-union but it's pretty decently paid and the working conditions are generally better than on-set crews in Hollywood. Which is a low bar and there's definitely hella problems (80-hour weeks in "crunch times" that end up lasting several months. Also imho the racial pay gap can be verrrryy real in vfx.)

But all to say it's not quite as simple as union vs non-union, doing a suit in full-cg is still stupidly fucking expensive. But the cost is balanced against re-shooting every shot that that character is in. It's not about paying a costumer, it's about doing like 6 months worth of re-shoots.

Honestly to me what it comes down to is this "fix it in post" mentality getting worse and worse the more cgi is capable of, they don't feel like they have to commit to the creative processes on set anymore because hey, we'll just change it if we don't like it anymore.

Apparently this competition is hellishly expensive to host (about £20 million, on top of each country’s entrance fee) and many frequent winners, like Ireland, have been known to self sabotage so they don’t have to keep hosting it! 

I’m guessing that’s why Ireland were out in the first round this year. 

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