I'm a huge fan of the Eurovision Song Contest, but this year I'm boycotting Eurovision.
Eurovision has always been political. Its purpose is political by seeking to unite Europe with the power of love of music over the power of hate and war.
In previous years, I celebrated the overt shows of support for Ukraine, LGBTQIA people, and other oppressed people.
But this year, the organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest have chosen ignore calls for BDS and allowed Israel to enter, and they have chosen to ban other participants from showing even support of the people of Palestine.
If you think the Eurovision Song Contest has chosen an appalling stance on this issue, you're not alone. The Israel singer was booed off stage, and there have been a record number of protests against Eurovision inside the auditorium, outside this year's venue in Malmö, and in many participating countries around the world.
Numerous professional organisations publicly supporting student demonstrators across the world and calling for public statements in support of a ceasefire, including
76 universities in #Spain decided to sever cooperation relations with #Israeli#universities and research centers and linked the return of cooperation to the occupation universities’ condemnation of the #occupation army’s invasion of the #Gaza Strip.
i think they are LOW yield for the amount of work/money/arrest. With 150 colleges protesting, ONE school, Brown U, has agreed, not to divest from #ApartheidIsrael, but to hold a vote to divest SIX MONTHS from now.
i think the 1000 students at Columbia protesting shoulda went to the Admin building, got transfer forms, filled them out, handing them in together, saying; we will take our $66,000,000 to a school that doesnt invest in genocide next year, will that be Columbia?
1500+ alumni of the University of Chicago sign public letter of solidarity with student organizers and pledge to withhold donations after @UChicago
Police raided the encampment on Tuesday. #BDS#freepalestine
Read the full letter: https://bit.ly/UchiAlumPublicLetter