Well luckily we live in 2024 where finding any amount of information is literally a few clicks away and there’s more than enough media coverage to stay informed. Someone that might be interested in finding more can… look it up.

The first results for “sxsw Palestine”:

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/3/13/artists-and-spe...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/us/sxsw-army-sponsorship-...

https://www.vulture.com/article/sxsw-palestine-defense-indus...

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/texas/news/dozens-of-artists-boy...

https://pitchfork.com/news/sxsw-addresses-us-army-sponsorshi...

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2459328/more-than-80-participan...

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/06/sxsw-musicians...

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/13/us/sxsw-military-sponsors...

I don’t think it’s reasonable that every single post needs to reference what’s going on with sources to make their point. We’re all adults, we all have access to the internet and news outlets.

"He cited the involvement of Raytheon and BAE Systems, two of the companies involved in this year’s SXSW festival.

“These defense contractors make the weapons that the IDF uses to bomb Gaza. The IDF has now killed at least one in every 75 inhabitants of Gaza, [and] I refuse to be complicit in that,” Williams said. “I don’t believe that a music festival should include profiteers of war – I believe that art is a tool to create a better world and has no place alongside warmongers.”

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/06/sxsw-musicians...