Israeli singer Netta Barzilai (second right) after winning the 2018 Eurovision song contest in Lisbon
A pro-Palestinian activist group, Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Australia, has joined protesters and artists worldwide in calling for a boycott of the event.
It used a red leaflet featuring the SBS [national public television network in Australia] name and logo to promote its cause. It said: “Boycott Eurovision 2019; Don’t Celebrate Israel’s Apartheid Crimes”.
SBS sent a legal letter saying they must “immediately remove SBS’s trademark from any of your websites, social media pages and any other marketing and promotional material”.
SBS threatens to sue protestors calling for boycott of Eurovision in Israel (The Guardian
Mark Geary writes:
Non-European country in a tizzy over Eurovision being in another non-European country.
Pic: AP
If it were the other way around Mark Geary would be in a “tizzy”. What gives?
Quite simple they will be sued if it’s not removed and quite rightly so
I’ll be boycotting the Eurovision because I haven’t watched it since 1993 when the delightful Niamh Cavanagh brought it home for Ireland.
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You should hung on for one more year, you really missed out…
Whats another year?
V. good :)
Shouldn’t have put the logo on, simple as that.
And I have been boycotting the Eurovision for its crime against the aural nerve for a long year now.
…the BDS movement goes from strength to strength…they don’t need to resort to misrepresentation…probably more to it like a letter of solidarity from the unions at SBS like the one from RTE unions…it’s not as if they were forging passports…
I’d say if it was Russia hosting Eurovision they would be lining up to boycott the thing.
Aussies gibbering about apartheid while keeping refugees cooped up on an island.
…didn’t they teach you at hasbara classes that you are not supposed to admit to apartheid?
Unsurprisingly there is no mention of Hamas passing the death penalty on several people this week.