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Wednesday, May 8, 2019
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Gaza artists call on Eurovision singers to boycott Israel
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePalestinian artists are calling on Eurovision song contestants to boycott the international music competition that Israel is hosting next week.
The Gaza Strip-based Palestinian Artists Association says that Israel is using the event to “perpetuate oppression, promote injustice or whitewash a brutal apartheid regime.”
The artists cited the killing of over 60 Palestinians during Gaza border protests on May 14 last year, the same day Israel won the Eurovision. The Hamas terror group said that at least 50 of those killed were its members.
The association held a sit-in outside the EU’s Gaza office and wrote a letter of protest.
— with agencies
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