"In a letter to Ireland’s Eurovision entrant Bambie Thug over 400 artists note the singer’s statement that “my heart has and always will be with the oppressed”. But, they say, “by participating in Eurovision you will be standing with the oppressor”. Palestinians have asked performers to boycott the contest and the artists are asking the Bambie Thug to stand “on the right side of history.”
The letter adds its voice to the more than 16,500 members of the Irish public who have petitioned RTE’s Director General, Kevin Bakhurst, to withdraw Ireland’s participation, in protest at the EBU’s failure to exclude Israel as it perpetrates genocide in Gaza.
The artists’ letter highlights the importance of global events such as Eurovision to Israel’s propaganda efforts, as a vehicle to ‘artwash’ its genocidal crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza which have killed at least 33,000 people, more than 13,500 of them children. ..."
