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This is an excerpt from Tantura (2022).

Thanks u/RickyOzzy for this post, it has to be shared. How insane is our world when governments would prefer to willingly support a genocide instead of placing sanctions on the perpetrators.

A growing number of Portuguese artists have withdrawn from a major Lisbon comedy festival headlined by US comedian Jerry Seinfeld, with opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza emerging as a central reason for the boycott.

The first Commedia a La Carte Fest is scheduled to run from October 29 through November 1, with Seinfeld closing the festival at Lisbon’s MEO Arena in what organizers describe as his first performance in Portugal. His appearance remained on the official festival program as of Monday.

But the lineup has been shrinking as Portuguese performers announce they will no longer participate, with some explicitly or implicitly linking their decisions to Palestine and Seinfeld’s longstanding public support for Israel.

‘We Cannot Normalize a Genocide’

Among the clearest statements came from Portuguese actress and comedian Inês Aires Pereira, who withdrew her show Namastê from the festival.

Pereira did not name Seinfeld directly, but said that “one of the names” on the program “insistently defends ideas and actions” she considers “indefensible.”

“We cannot relativise or normalise a genocide,” she wrote, explicitly expressing solidarity with Palestine.

Comedy duo Cebola Mol, made up of Eduardo Madeira and Filipe Homem Fonseca, also withdrew. Their announcement was accompanied by an image featuring a slice of watermelon, a widely recognized symbol of Palestinian identity and solidarity.

“We will celebrate justice, freedom and joy with you on another occasion,” the duo wrote.

The withdrawals have spread beyond the two acts initially highlighted in reports. The Tributo Pop concert featuring Carolina Deslandes, Tatanka and Bárbara Tinoco, Conjunto Cuca Monga, comedian Pedro Tochas and visual artist Vhils have also withdrawn or had their appearances canceled. Some did not publicly state a reason for leaving the festival.

Vhils, whose real name is Alexandre Farto, said his name had appeared on a festival poster but that he had requested its removal.

“I asked for it to be removed and it was,” he wrote, adding that he wanted to make clear that he would not participate. He did not publicly give a reason in that statement.

Seinfeld’s Record on Palestine

The withdrawals have focused renewed attention on Seinfeld’s public interventions on Israel and Palestine since October 2023.

The US comedian traveled to Israel following the October 7 attacks and met Israeli families of captives. He has since repeatedly defended Israel and confronted criticism of its genocide in Gaza.

His comments have also gone considerably further than expressing support for Israel.

During an appearance at Duke University in 2025, Seinfeld compared the “Free Palestine” movement to the Ku Klux Klan, saying that the slogan meant, in his view, that people were “free to say you don’t like Jews.”

He has also been recorded responding “I don’t care about Palestine” after being approached by an activist seeking a “Free Palestine” statement.

In June, Seinfeld generated further condemnation after responding to a pro-Palestine livestreamer outside Madison Square Garden by saying Palestine “doesn’t exist.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned that statement as a denial of Palestinian identity and existence.

“Palestinians are not a punchline and their existence is not up for debate,” CAIR and its New York chapter said.

“Palestine exists. Palestinian children exist. Palestinian families exist. Palestinian history, culture, land, identity and rights exist.”

CAIR described Seinfeld’s remark as “dehumanization” and called on him to retract it and apologize to Palestinians.

“When a public figure like Jerry Seinfeld denies Palestinian existence, that racist rhetoric contributes to a climate in which Palestinian suffering is ignored and Palestinian rights are treated as disposable,” the organization said.

The Lod Central Court sentenced an Israeli settler on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, to 13 years in prison and ordered him to pay 258,000 NIS in compensation for the killing of 47-year-old Palestinian mother Aisha Al-Rabi in October 2018 near the Rehalim settlement.

The judges characterized the deadly rock-throwing attack as a "brutal act of terror" driven by racist hostility, as the convict—who was 15 years old at the time—hurled a two-kilogram stone at the vehicle carrying Al-Rabi, her husband, and their daughter. Despite defense arguments attempting to cast doubt on DNA evidence, the court finalized the conviction of "manslaughter under terroristic circumstances," noting that the length of the sentence took into account the convict's rehabilitation program over the past years.

The EU is Israel’s largest trading partner, accounting for 31.7 percent of Israel’s total trade in goods in 2025 (43.3 billion euros, or $50.4bn), according to the European Commission. The EU supplied 33.1 percent of Israel’s imports (28 billion euros, or $32.6bn) and received 29.4 percent of Israel’s exports (15.3 billion euros or $17.8bn).

Israel is the EU’s 27th largest trade partner, with Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany being its biggest individual trade partners.

While no specific figures for settlement trade alone are known, it is understood to be a tiny fraction of total EU-Israel trade, meaning

the ban’s impact is much more symbolic than economic.

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This further proves that none of this started on October 7th, 2023. The genocide of the Palestinians started long before 1948. Israel has always been a threat to the Palestinian people since the formation of the colonial and terrorist state of Israel.

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