AOAV analysis of Eurovision voting data from 2016-2025 suggests Israel experienced an unprecedented post-October 7 surge in public televote support, despite collapsing jury backing, raising questions about political mobilisation, diaspora voting and the use of entertainment platforms as signals of international legitimacy.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s writings form a profound and enduring critique of violence, advocating for nonviolent resistance as both a moral imperative and a strategic means of confronting injustice, structural oppression, and state power.

Michel Foucault’s critique of power reveals how modern violence operates not through spectacle but through surveillance, classification, and bureaucratic control—challenging us to confront the hidden systems that legitimise harm.