Recording artists Robin, Fever Ray, Viagra Boys and over 1,000 members of the Swedish music community are calling for Israel to be excluded from Eurovision 2024.
More than 1,000 members of the Swedish music community signed the petition on Monday. open letter In response to Israel’s war against Hamas, he called on Eurovision’s governing body, the European Broadcasting Union, to exclude Israel from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.
The annual competition will be held in Malmo, Sweden this spring, with the winning country from the previous year’s competition hosting the next pan-European event.
But Robin (pictured), Fever Ray, Viagra Boys, Refused, First Aid Kit, DJ Seinfeld, El Perro del Mar, Lust for Youth, Say Lou Lou, Ane Blanc , Clairp, The Knife’s Olof Driedger and many others have signed. Joint statement calling for Israel to be removed from the show.
“We believe that by allowing Israel to participate, the EBU is displaying a flagrant double standard that undermines its credibility,” said their letter, which was first published in a Swedish newspaper. There is. aftonbladet, read.
“Allowing Israel to participate would undermine not only the spirit of the contest, but the entire mission of the public service. It would also send a signal that it is okay for governments to commit war crimes without consequences.” ”, the letter added. “We therefore appeal to the EBU to exclude Israel from the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest.”
Some of the musicians who signed the letter against Israel have represented Sweden in past Eurovision contests, including climate change alarmist Greta Thunberg. This includes opera singer Malena Ernmann, who is also the mother of .
Greta Thunberg, 15, poses with her mother, opera singer Malena Ernmann, in Stockholm on April 17, 2018. (TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)
According to a report, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has already responded to similar petitions from musicians in Finland and Iceland, saying it would not exclude the world’s only Jewish state. report by guardian.
However, the EBU has excluded Russia and Belarus from Eurovision in recent years, Russia for invading Ukraine and Belarus for violating press freedom rules.
Israel has been participating in Eurovision since 1973 and has won three times, most recently in 2018.
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