🌟 [ 28 ]   Protest in Malmo ahead of Eurovision Song Contest final plagued by tensions over Israels involvemen [ @AP Archive ]

(11 May 2024) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Malmo, Sweden - 11 May 2024 1. Wide of protest, some protesters waving pro-Palestinian flags 2. Pan of protesters, flags 3. Protesters holding banners reading (Swedish) No to genocide and (English) Welcome to genocide song contest 4. Protester holding sign reading (English) “Boycott Eurovision, artwashing genocide 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sahab Saheb, psychotherapist and protester: “It s important to reclaim my humanity. And for all of us who are being here to say no for (to) slaughtering human beings as easy as (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu is doing it.” 6. Protesters, flags 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sahab Saheb, psychotherapist and protester: “It s mostly the hypocrisy of the Swedish government because once (upon) a time we refused to have Russia (in Eurovision) because it had a war against Ukraine, and today we have Israel, so the hypocrisy is painful. 8. Protester with sign reading (Swedish) Students hate genocide 9. Protesters holding signs 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Pia Jacobsen, Stop Israel protest organisers spokesperson: “It is important to demonstrate because Israel shouldn t be allowed to compete in Eurovision. I mean, we stand here in solidarity with the Palestinian people, we haven t forgotten them, and we want to show the world that we are against Israel s competing. You can t throw bombs with one hand and glitter with another hand.” 11. Protesters chanting 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Pia Jacobsen, Stop Israel protest organisers spokesperson: “Well, I m not worried at all about the safety in the demonstration, actually. We have a large number of demonstration guards and they are very, very good at their job. And we also have had this great demonstration Thursday, where nothing happened, everything was peaceful and it turned out great.” 13. Protesters chanting 14. Man with effigy above head with writing (English) Eurovision is celebrating geno .

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