Celebrated musicians including Massive Attack, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Sigur Rós, Nadine Shah, and many more have signed an open letter calling for a boycott of the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in protest of Israel’s 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 year’s highly divisive Eurovision Song Contest.
More than 1,000 artists, including Massive Attack, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Sigur Rós, Nadine Shah, Mogwai and Hot Chip, have signed an open letter calling for a boycott of Eurovision 2026 in protest of Israel’s participation.
The letter calls upon the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to ban KAN – the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation – from the upcoming contest.
“For the third consecutive year,” the letter states, Israel will be “celebrated onstage despite its ongoing genocide in Gaza, while Russia remains banned for its illegal invasion of Ukraine.”
“We refuse to be silent when Israel’s genocidal violence soundtracks and silences Palestinian lives,” the letter reads. “When children in Israeli prisons endure beatings for humming a tune. When all that’s 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.”
In a statement, a spokesperson for No Music For Genocide said: “People 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 Israel’s leaders speak openly about the contest’s geopolitical value.”
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You are boycotting eurovision because of a single country that is participating (when watching it for free is giving them not a single benefit), yet at the same time have no problem pouring money into one of the most immoral gambling sites, run by US tech oligarchs? Something does not quite add up here. I could get the first part bit the second is beyond me.
I don’t use polymarket or it’s competitors, i barely ever gamble and if i wanted too i wouldn’t do it online and definitely not there. The joke i was trying to make is that i am really sure of my prediction. Thank you for telling anyone unaware that polymarket is an immoral gambling site run by US tech oligarchs. We do not disagree.
Good to hear.
I still don’t get what is funny about it even now that you say it is a joke, though. To me it sounds like jesting you’d send a donation to Palantir to celebrate whatever. But it could be also just my lack of humour.
I can’t know about that, but maybe it’s just different. Don’t know why you’re getting so many downvotes. Might be that to other people it’s more obvious i didn’t meant registering at polymarket literally and understood it’s not something i seriously plan to do. Either way, don’t worry about it and take care ✌️.