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Eurovision 2024: The beloved contest has become an ugly mess on DAZED

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This year Eurovision’s mantra ‘united by music’ rings hollow as the European Broadcasting Union doubles down on including Israel in this year’s contest.

… in 2022, following outcries from artists and international broadcasters, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) made the decision to disqualify Russia from the song contest following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. In a statement at the time, the EBU said that based on meetings with Eurovision’s governing body, the rules of the event and “the values of the EBU… [that] the inclusion of a Russian entry… would bring the competition into disrepute”. Such sentiments sour when considering the EBU’s attitude towards Israel and the organisation’s failure to consider experiences of those living in Palestine. It’s baffling that Russia’s assault on Ukraine is considered the antithesis of what Eurovision stands for but an ongoing genocide is permissible. 

Continue reading at https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/62587/1/eurovision-2024-israel-palestine-boycott-olly-alexander-eden-golan

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400+ Irish artists write to Bambie Thug calling for Eurovision Boycott on Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign

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We are writing to you as Irish artists, writers and poets, many of us queer and trans. Firstly, we congratulate you on being selected to represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. This is an honour and recognition of your talent and artistry.

However, we are asking you to withdraw from Eurovision 2024, to heed the call from Palestinians to boycott the competition due to the participation of Israel. We welcome that you have chosen, along with other participating artists, not to be silent. However, while you say “My heart and solidarity has and will always lie with the oppressed” – by participating in Eurovision you will be standing with the oppressor. Palestinians have called for artists to withdraw from the contest, and if your wish to stand in solidarity is sincere, then you should listen to them. None of us with the privilege of living in safety knows better than Palestinians, a people who are experiencing the most extreme colonial violence, that of genocide, and who for 7 decades, have been subjected to systematic apartheid, occupation, siege, ethnic cleansing, dispossession, mass incarceration and murder. Words from the stage will be meaningless as you will have ignored the Palestinian call to boycott.

Continue reading at https://www.ipsc.ie/culture/400-irish-artists-write-to-bambie-thug-calling-for-eurovision-boycott

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Petition: Ban Israel from Eurovisionk on EKO

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Palestinians in Gaza are facing famine at the hands of Israeli forces. Gaza’s cultural heritage sites have been decimated by 6 months of bombing.

Meanwhile, singer Eden Golan is set to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest in May. 

By allowing Israel to participate, Eurovision is whitewashing Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, right on the global stage.

Continue reading at https://actions.eko.org/a/ban-israel-from-eurovision-cntl

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Petition – Olly Alexander: Boycott Eurovision 2024 by Palestine Solidarity Campaign

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Responding to the Palestinian call to boycott the event, over 450+ queer artists, activists and organisations have signed an open letter to the UK’s contestant, Olly Alexander, asking him to withdraw. The letter calls on him to “commit not to perform at Eurovision while it provides cultural cover for an ongoing genocide.” 

We, the undersigned, add our voices and ask Olly Alexander to heed the Palestinian call to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.

Continue reading at https://palestinecampaign.eaction.online/Eurovision2024

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Protesting Israel’s Dehumanization and Demonization of the Palestinians by Shahd Abusalama

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Israel’s culture of impunity assumes they can continue committing a gradual genocide against our existence, without us fighting back to reclaim our humanity and hold them accountable. If we “dare to dream,” to use Eurovision’s slogan this year, we face Israel’s multi-faced violence, which chases us wherever we go, even when we physically break free of Israeli systems of oppression to Europe. And unfortunately, the Israeli narrative continues to enjoy Western bias despite growing resistance from believers in global justice across the world. As a result, our suffering and yearning for freedom and justice is left unheard and unseen in the mainstream. Meanwhile, Israel and Western governments are criminalizing the BDS movement, which has given us an empowering non-violent tool to tackle those intersecting international systems of oppression against us, and a solidarity tactic to break this chain of complicity.

Continue reading at https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/38749

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Madonna accused of ‘supporting murder and genocide’ as she defends Eurovision gig on The Canary

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Palestinian activists have responded to Madonna’s insistence that she’ll go ahead with her performance at the Eurovision Song Contest. One accused her of ‘supporting murder and genocide’.

Continue reading at https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2019/05/17/madonna-accused-of-supporting-murder-and-genocide-as-she-defends-eurovision-gig/

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Eurovision tells us everything about Europe’s ‘vision’ for Palestinians: acquiescence by Randa Abdel-Fattah

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That Israel is hosting Eurovision tells us everything about Europe and the western world’s “vision” for Palestinians: acquiescence. 

Accept your oppression, the theft and occupation of your land, the slow genocidal erasure of Gaza, the airstrikes and slaughter. 

Do not envisage freedom, resistance, liberation. 

Do not imagine we, the international community, will hold Israel to account for its defiance of international and human rights law. 

Continue reading at https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2019/5/13/eurovision-tells-us-everything-about-europes-vision-for-palestinians

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Sun, Gays, Misogyny, and Shawarma: Eurovision promo yet another failed Israeli bid for legitimacy by Denijal Jegić

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Eurovision is a mere example of how Israel is desperately trying to gain legitimacy through a stubborn insistence on old myths and the almost comical exhaustion of the same talking points. Because Zionism is a modern colonial movement that is incompatible with universal human rights and international law, and because Israel does not have any moral or legal justification for the colonization of Palestine and for the genocidal maltreatment of Palestinians, the Israeli regime will continue to desperately necessitate absurd propaganda in its efforts to narrate to the outside world, and probably to itself, a modified version of history, trying to prove that it has some sort of legitimacy.

Continue reading at https://mondoweiss.net/2019/05/misogyny-eurovision-legitimacy/

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El boicot a Israel persigue a la “charanga” eurovisiva por Madrid al grito de “¡mientras cantan están asesinando!” /The boycott of Israel pursues the eurovision “charanga” in Madrid with the cry of “while they are singing they are murdering!” on Vertele

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Human Rights Defenders at the “Farewell to Miki” Eurovision party in Madrid held up signs charging Israel with genocide against the indigenous Palestinian people.

Read the article at http://vertele.eldiario.es/noticias/Manifestantes-propalestinos-eurovisiva-Madrid-asesinando_0_2119888010.html

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URGENT ACTION ALERT: Behind The Fence, They Sing of Freedom on International Solidarity Movement website

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A call for international human rights defenders to come to Palestine mid May (May 13 – May 19th) 2019 to support the cultural boycott of the Eurovision Singing Contest in Tel Aviv.
… Whilst the colonization forces prepare historical Palestine for the upcoming Eurovision singing contest, the stage is also being set for further oppression and genocide of the Palestinian people.

Continue reading at https://palsolidarity.org/2019/04/urgent-action-alert-behind-the-fence-they-sing-of-freedom/