The Easiest Way To Show Solidarity with the victims of Israel's genocide against Palestinians
Photo unrelated, just felt we could use a pretty cloud photo to lighten the mood
BDS has specifically pointed out that Microsoft (most notably their Azure Cloud and AI services) are a major point of Israel's ability to continue their genocide against Palestinians and have asked for solidarity in a boycott which is so SO easy to participate in. The ask is INCREDIBLY simple:
- Cancel your Xbox Game Pass subscription.
- Boycott Candy Crush, Minecraft and Call of Duty – flagship videogame franchises owned by Microsoft.
- Boycott all Microsoft Gaming products, including Xbox-branded consoles, headsets, accessories and all games published by Microsoft-owned publishing labels (such as Xbox Game Studios, Activision, Bethesda and Blizzard).
This means when Bethesda drops a new Elder Scrolls? Don't fucking buy it. When the new World of Warcraft expansion releases? Don't buy it! Doom the Dark ages? Why the fuck are you posting about it? It's absolutely embarrassing seeing people doing armchair activism with watermelon or Palestinian flags in their online profiles then posting free press for The Outer Wilds 2 or being hyped about Oblivion Remastered.
Does this boycott potentially fuck over the unrelated devs at companies who didn't ask to be acquired by the tech giant? Possibly, yea! But Microsoft has shown time and time again that it'll lay these people off regardless of sales or performance anyway so what the fuck does it matter.
My whole life I was fed the lie that "the middle east is complicated" which was shorthand for "eh let those nonwhite, nonchristian people duke it out, it doesn't concern us" until it did concern us; oil causing us to do numerous wars in Iraq, religious hegemony deciding to specifically target Islam as a global villain, and the ever-present "Evangelical Christians fundamentally believe Israel has to rebuild the temple mount in Jerusalem in order for the book of Revelation to come true, so even though they believe the Jews are all going to hell for not believing in Jesus, they need them to do this genocide" which like
C'mon. Listen to yourselves
People in Palestine are being absolutely brutalized for no reason other than they are of an ethnic group that the sitting prime minister of Israel has made it his life's work to see eradicated. If that sentence alone can't get you to not buy a video game I don't know what the fuck will man.