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_Published 2024-05-09. Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested in the Swedish port city on Thursday against Israel’s participation in the pan-continental Eurovision Song Contest._


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## Transcript

What is Eurovision the short answer or the short answer is very simple. Your vision is a music competition in which countries from across Europe and a few that aren't part of Europe come together. They've sent an act and those acts compete in front of a live and televised audience for votes to be crowned champions of Europe and to take home the famous trophy of a crystal microphone. The longer answer is that your vision is so much more than just a music competition. It's a it's a music festival is a celebration of musics ability to bring people together. It's also a form of diplomacy with music really in which countries try to forge alliances with others.

It sometimes seems like a cross between a music festival and the United Nations security Council has been called the Olympics of pop music. What's happening in Malmo Sweden this week? Is that 37 countries mostly from Europe, but also farther afield including Israel Azerbaijan and Australia 50 Cent musical acts to your sweetness who sang this year because Sweden's a chlorine was the winner last year. They will all perform in semi-finals and the 37 will be whittled down to 26 accident will compete on Saturday night at the marina in the Grand Final in front of an audience of several thousand people at parties and added estimated 180 million people around the world.

Your vision strives to be as a happy musical bubble, but it can't avoid what's going on the world outside. Russia was a long time Eurovision contest. It was kicked out for the competition in 2022 after they invaded Ukraine and hasn't returned this year. The contest is only taking place amid the war and Gaza and to a certain extent as being overshadowed by that conflict. There has been sure on the organisers a two-bar Israel from competition because of the conduct of the war. They haven't done that Israel is competing a thing as well even bowl and they did have to change the title and lyrics of their song it was called October rain apparently a reference to the Hamas attack of October 7th on Israel that we seem to be political and that's not allowed to excel called hurricane and it isn't a competition Pro Palestinian organizations have been calling for Israel to be barred and also for a ceasefire in the war and they will be protesting this week or two large demonstrations plan.

Big 5 thousand people become not just from Sweden from Denmark and neighboring countries to die. Guess to say that your vision can't get away with ignoring politics.

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