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No sacred cows

The hypocrisy of Ken Loach’s Eurovision boycott

9 February 2019

9:00 AM

9 February 2019

9:00 AM

The Guardian last week published a ‘we, the undersigned’ letter from 50 ‘artists of conscience’ urging the BBC to boycott this year’s Eurovision Song Contest because it’s taking place in Israel. ‘Eurovision may be light entertainment,’ they wrote, ‘but it is not exempt from human rights considerations — and we cannot ignore Israel’s systematic violations of Palestinian human rights.’

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