Israel should be disqualified from Eurovision 2024: European politicians
Al Jazeera
Political figures pen angry letter to Eurovision organisers saying Israel should be excluded for its war in Gaza.
The organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest are under increasing pressure to exclude Israel from this year’s competition as it wages a devastating war on Gaza.
More than 20 politicians wrote to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) on Tuesday saying Israel’s participation in the contest “whitewashes a regime that is carrying out ethnic cleansing in Palestine and committing war crimes and genocide”.
European Parliament members and politicians from Spain’s left-wing Podemos party are among the signatories of the letter seen by Al Jazeera.
The annual contest is set to take place in May at Sweden’s Malmo Arena after Swedish singer Loreen won last year.
The politicians behind the letter acknowledged that the EBU, which is a group of public media organisations, wants Eurovision to remain a non-political event.
