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OLI SCARFF / AFP More than 1,400 Finnish artists have signed a petition to demand Israel’s exclusion from the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, British media reported on January 11.
OLI SCARF / AFP
More than 1,400 Finnish artists have signed a petition calling for Israel’s exclusion from the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, British media reported on January 11.
CULTURE – After Russia was excluded from the Eurovision Song Contest in 2022 due to the war in Ukraine, will this also be the case for Israel in 2024? In any case, more than 1,400 Finnish artists have signed a petition to demand Israel’s exclusion from the 68th edition of the song competition, which will take place on May 11 in Malmö, Sweden. They denounce it “war crimes” committed by the IDF in Gaza.
“It is not in line with our values that a country that (…) continues a military occupation benefits from a public stage to improve its image in the name of music.”plead these artists and musicians, the BBC reported on Thursday, January 11th The guard.
Call for a “boycott”
They also question the Finnish public broadcaster (Yle), which they believe should be the case “Boycott the competition and refuse to send a Finnish application.” if an Israeli candidate introduced himself. In December, Icelandic musicians made the same request to their broadcaster Rúv.
The petition’s signatories, including Finnish artists Olavi Uusivirta, Paleface and Axel Ehnström, who represented their country during the 2011 edition, even accused Yle of making it “Two weights, two measures “, while the broadcaster was one of the first to call for Russia to be excluded from the 2022 competition.
But as we remember The Parisian, Israel currently has its place in the competition. The European Broadcasting Union, the body responsible for organizing the European competition, has actually justified the following: “This is a competition for broadcasters, not governments”. However, the EBU decided to expel Russia on February 25, 2022, a day after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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