Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered in Malmo, Sweden, on Thursday evening ahead of the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest where Israel’s contestant, Eden Golan, was due to perform her song Hurricane.
Police estimated that between 10,000 and 12,000 people took part. Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist, was in the crowd, wrapped in a keffiyeh, the traditional scarf that has become a symbol of Palestinian resistance. “Young people are leading the way and showing the world how we should react to this,” she said.
Demonstrators waving Palestinian flags packed Stortorget, the square near Malmo’s 16th-century town hall before a march through the city to a rally in a park several miles from the Eurovision venue.
The protesters included families with young children and people with dogs and bicycles. Smoke canisters in the colours of the Palestinian flag were set off and some protesters carried signs displaying images of Gaza civilians who had been injured in the Hamas-Israel conflict. One banner bore the word “genocide”.
Police mounted a major security operation and called in reinforcements from neighbouring Denmark and Norway for the semi-finals this week and Saturday’s grand final….
In Britain, a Eurovision screening has been cancelled after pro-Palestinian protesters announced plans to picket the venue. The Duke of York Cinema in Brighton, the town where ABBA won the competition 50 years ago with Waterloo, cancelled its screening of the final over security concerns.
In an email sent to all ticket buyers, Picturehouse Cinema, which owns the grade-two listed venue, said: “We’re sorry to say that due to safety concerns for our staff and customers, the Eurovision screening will no longer take place on Saturday.”
The Brighton and Hove Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, who planned to picket the party, welcomed the cancellation.
Would any other singer from any other country attract this level of hatred? Russia? China? Iran? Syria? Of course not. It's the new antisemitism, on full display.
But…she got through to the finals.
Israel made it through to the Eurovision 2024 finals.
What does this tell you? That despite what the Pro-Hamas mob and the radical leftists wants you to believe, the MAJORITY OF THE WORLD supports Israel.
The silent majority has spoken. #StandWithIsrael pic.twitter.com/mS5no0jLjo
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) May 9, 2024
Mick Hartley 
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