I'm furious with myself. Months ago, I made a post with a drawing of Shadow Milk and Pure Vanilla as Italian Opera clowns. The drawings were not the problem, but the posts I made for Tumblr and Instagram I decided to promote the campaign for an animated short, "Arlecchino and Pierrot", I just found it interesting. I even made a late pledge of 10 euros. Giving 6 allowed me to receive emails from the team.
Today arrived an email detailing the premiere, it's in Tel-Aviv, f*cking Israel's capital. It turns out the studio making the project, The Hive Studio had a branch there and in Jerusalem (all white people, btw). I didn't do a good background check. Main page only said to have "four branches in the Mediterranean", Kickstarter had its location in Athens, Greece, where the main branch is (I think).
But I admit, I did find one post on their Instagram that at the bottom had a sentence in Hebrew, I thought it was prayer, as in just involving the Jewish faith. How could I be this careless.
Supporting an israeli studio, whose state is committing a genocide in Gaza, bombing Lebanon, actively causing conflicts in the Middle East, and trying to get involved in Latin America. Facts that its civilians seem to be fine with because most have this racist, colonialist mentality due to the Zionist propaganda they received for their whole lives. All adults have to serve the IDF, btw.
I can't forgive myself for this. All I can say is, if you find the film, don't support it (I won't watch it anymore, I feel disgust); keep boycotting any company that is complicit with the genocide; boycott any product from Israel; donate to aid campaigns for Gaza, Lebanon and to anyone in humanitarian need that you trust if you can; and keep doing your daily clicks.
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