What's happening in Palestine is wrong. Why won't the video games industry say so?
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00:00 - Why PMG is talking about Palestine
4:12 - Two years on from Tamoor's original video
10:47 - What's it like in the West Bank right now?
13:46 - How Apartheid happens
18:00 - The role of Israeli settlers in Palestine
21:26 - Palestine and the media we consume
24:39 - How Palestinian games, films and art is stifled
26:48 - This didn't start on October 7th
31:54 - So how do we make a difference?
34:03 - Rasheed's next game
35:35 - Tamoor's closing thoughts
36:39 - Support our fundraiser!
May some of the takes be pretty meh, with the whole condemning HAMAS. But it surely is not all lost, just the whole idea of western gamedev hypocrisy on how they supported Ukraine yet are not doing the same treatment to Palestinians. Just want to hear your thoughts.
The gaming industry was all out for Ukraine because it’s very white and pretty conservative when not all out “freeze peach” fascists. It was predictable that when worse things happen to Palestinians for indefinitely more unjust reasons they don’t give a damn, they’re Arabs and Muslims after all.
The gaming industry was all out for Ukraine because it’s very white and pretty conservative when not all out “freeze peach” fascists. It was predictable that when worse things happen to Palestinians for indefinitely more unjust reasons they don’t give a damn, they’re Arabs and Muslims after all.