Norway: Palestinian activists protested outside NRK against Israel!
Palestinian activists on Saturday used powerful measures in the fight against Israel‘s participation in Eurovision. 30 men sat bare-chested, blindfolded and hands stripped outside NRK. Activist and initiator Rami Samandar says to VG:
“We are here to highlight Israel’s violations of international law. What we see in Gaza is absolutely horrific.”
The protesters staged an incident on Saturday that occurred in Beit Lahiya in the Gaza Strip on December 7. Then over a hundred Palestinian men and boys were captured by Israeli soldiers. They were ordered to undress and kneel in the street and were accused of belonging to Hamas or being terrorists. Samandar continues:
“But it’s too cold for all 30 people to sit outside NRK at the same time, so we have divided them into groups of ten who each take a dare in front of NRK.”
It was around zero degrees outside NRK Saturday morning and Samandar says that there was great interest in taking part in this action.
“We received so many inquiries that in the end we had to say no.”
In groups of ten, a total of 30 men walked up and down between the parking lot below NRK and the main entrance.
There have been calls to ban Israel from Eurovision 2024, like 1000 Swedish musicians that signed today a petition to the EBU against Israel outside NRK right during the first two weeks of MGP. In Iceland, more than 500 artists signed a petition asking RÚV to withdraw from the contest, while Silvia Night signed an open letter to the EBU asking to ban Israel. In Finland, 1300 artists signed a petition asking for Israel to be removed. The British representative Olly Alexander has also shared in public his opinion against Israel. Also just recently Montaigne signed an open letter to the EBU asking the ban of Israel from the contest and Ben Dolic joined her by doing the same.
Source: VG
Photo: VG
Stay tuned at Eurovisionfun for all the latest news regarding the Eurovision Song Contest!
Follow us in all our social media, so that you’ll not miss anything regarding the Eurovision Song Contest:
Photo: Jessica Gow / TT News Agency
Leave a Reply
Want to join the discussion?Feel free to contribute!