Celebrated musicians including Massive Attack, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Sigur Rรณs, Nadine Shah, and many more have signed an open letter calling for a boycott of the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in protest of Israelโs participation.
Campaign groups No Music For Genocide and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel are calling for a boycott of this yearโs highly divisive Eurovision Song Contest.
More than 1,000 artists, including Massive Attack, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Sigur Rรณs, Nadine Shah, Mogwai and Hot Chip, have signed an open letter calling for a boycott of Eurovision 2026 in protest of Israelโs participation.
The letter calls upon the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to ban KAN โ the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation โ from the upcoming contest.
โFor the third consecutive year,โ the letter states, Israel will be โcelebrated onstage despite its ongoing genocide in Gaza, while Russia remains banned for its illegal invasion of Ukraine.โ
โWe refuse to be silent when Israelโs genocidal violence soundtracks and silences Palestinian lives,โ the letter reads. โWhen children in Israeli prisons endure beatings for humming a tune. When all thatโs left of nearly every stage, studio, bookshop and university in Gaza is piles of rubble, under which slaughtered bodies still await recovery and proper burial.โ
In a statement, a spokesperson for No Music For Genocide said: โPeople of conscience around the globe are fighting complicity in every industry for a free Palestine and a freer world. While many of us in the industry make light of Eurovision or doubt our own power as cultural producers, genocidal Israelโs leaders speak openly about the contestโs geopolitical value.โ
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