Thousands protest in Malmö against Israel taking part in Eurovision
Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered in Malmö, where the Eurovision song contest is being held, to protest against Israel’s participation in the competition.
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A large crowd gathered in Malmö’s central square Stortorget, about 7km from the competition venue, waving Palestinian flags. More than 100,000 visitors descended on the southern Swedish city for the annual competition, which is taking place amid protests and boycotts over the Israeli military in Gaza
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39 comments
Eurovision should be boycotted
The main sponsor of Eurovision is Moroccanoil, an Israeli company.
Count Berna-dotte the documentary is very helpful
😂😂😂😂
Why are there no protest against russian invasion of ukraine? hypokracy?
Why were there no protest against russian invasion of chechnia?
Why were there no protest against russian invasion of georgien?
Thank you… you are humans
I was there. Solidarity beautiful to see
For those of you who didnt know, Israel has been in Eurovision since the beinning
FR33 P4L3ST1N3 NICE R1GG3D VOTING. Not watching this joke of a competition again! 🤑🤑🤑
320 votes from a low rank. Yeahhh sure, everybody knows how millions of people got paid and tried to convince to review and vote in favour for isnotreal in social media. Same happened here 😂
Israel should have been disqualified as was Russia
So India is also Europe
Long live Israel ❤❤❤❤
And millions voted maximum points to Israeli singer. Loud left minority can't full anyone, 80% of western people supports Israel.
Free Sweden !
This is the resultat of communists (leftist) free immigration to Sweden.
Repatriate one million now 👍🏻
I've never seen Malmö pretend like that. Half of the protesters are native Swedes, old and young, even disabled on crutches. And communities from different countries. People no longer want to ignore what is happening in the world because silence about injustice will one day affect others.
International politics is never about democracy or human rights. It's about the interests of states…
Stop Genocide in Palestine Now! Shame on IsraHell 😢
Left wing radicals like to create chaos – that flag has now become their symbol.
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Massive respect to Malmoe for this one free Palestine!!!!
Poor Sweden
And this is the nature of radicalists. Hate.
Malmo used to be a very lovely city . Now look 😢
Free Palestine
As usual, not a single word from the protesters for the hostages, or October 7th. Besides, this is just a music festival. Crazy.
European song contest:
1. Pride flag – check
2. Palestinian flag – check
3. EU flag – banned 🤣🙃
tbh "whitewash" doesn't mean this
Israel is in the middle east, not in Europe, so the protest makes so much sense.
There is a genocide against White Europeans. It's happening especially fast in Sweden. You should be more worried about that
Obviously it is not Israel’s singer’s individual fault what her country is doing, but since Eurovision is inevitably a political contest, she should have been the bigger person and stepped down without performing, as other countries did in protest.
Is this Sweden or Swedistan?
Ofc everything has to be absolutely political.
anti-Semitism; this country is in a very poor state
And Europe voted for Eden! 🎉
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Israel is not Europe and it doesn't belong to EUROvision!