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Huge demonstrations in opposition to Israel’s participation within the Eurovision contest
Turkish newspaper “Qarar”, printed Article With Shula Demirtaş, during which she talks about how Israel took half within the Eurovision contest regardless of the crimes it dedicated and the protests in opposition to its battle on Gaza.
Under is the textual content of the article translated into Arabic:
In Sweden, particularly in central Malmö, demonstrators marched hours earlier than the beginning of the Eurovision Tune Contest closing to protest Israel’s participation within the “Freedom of Palestine” slogan. the organizers of the competitors for supporting the genocide it guarantees in opposition to the Palestinians.
The European Broadcasting Union, which organizes the Eurovision Tune Contest, has all the time maintained that the competition is a purely cultural occasion and never it has nothing to do with politics.
However it’s no secret that this competitors is inside its political dimensions, and expectations indicated that this 12 months’s competitors could be full of a extra political environment than ever earlier than.
Though Israel will not be a part of Europe, it has been competing since 1973 and has gained the competitors 4 instances, and has all the time been current as a result of it’s a central to diplomatic crises all through the historical past of this competitors.
In 1978, Israel achieved its first victory within the match, because it participated within the match regardless of occupying southern Lebanon and its assaults on it. refugee camps at the moment, Jordan made no point out of the competitors as a protest in opposition to Israeli assaults, as did some nations within the Center East and North Africa.
In 2005, 1000’s of Palestinians had been killed through the Al-Aqsa Intifada, however “Israel” on the time participated within the competitors with none obstacles and was not topic to any type of sanctions any protest, Lebanon withdrew from the competitors.
On account of the Israeli crimes dedicated at present in Gaza, many who sympathize with the Palestinian folks requested that “Israel” be banned from collaborating within the Tune Contest This 12 months’s Eurovision, as 1000’s of musicians and artists signed petitions to ban “Israel” from collaborating. , however to no avail.
Mockingly, in 2022, Eurovision banned Russia from getting into the competitors because of the battle in Ukraine. Did this determination not symbolize a transparent political message?
Due to this fact, the Eurovision Tune Contest will not be solely a cultural leisure competitors as a result of it’s promoted. world protests.
