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Eurovision hits out at ‘targeted social media campaigns’ against artists

Statement comes amid reports that Israel’s singer Eden Golan has received death threats

Organisers of the Eurovision song contest have hit out at “targeted social media campaigns” against competitors amid reports of threats against the singer for Israel. The European Broadcasting Union acknowledged in a statement “the depth of feeling and the strong opinions that this year’s Eurovision song contest – set against the backdrop of a terrible war in the Middle East – has provoked”. The initial entry was widely considered to reference the victims of Hamas’s 7 October attack in Israel, which sparked the war in Gaza.

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