Eurovision vows to remove Palestinian flags or symbols
Eurovision vows to remove Palestinian flags or symbols
Organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest have said they reserve the right to remove any Palestine flags from the competition, due to take place 7-11 May.
Michelle Roverelli, the head of communications for the European Broadcasting Union that runs the show, said ticket holders are only allowed to bring and display flags representing countries that take part in the event, as well as the rainbow-coloured flag.
The Geneva-based EBU reserves the right “to remove any other flags or symbols, clothing, items and banners being used for the likely purpose of instrumentalising the TV shows,” she told the Associated Press in a text message.
Martin Österdahl, the contest's executive supervisor, told TT that “these rules are the same as last year. There is no change.”
They've never allowed political protests. Nothing is different vs any other year. This headline sure is inflammatory, though
Seriously. Just the distinction between "vows to" and "reserves the right to" is already needlessly incendiary.
It's so annoying, really. I'd call myself pretty left-leaning (especially compared to the US political spectrum), but there are just so many inflammatory posts on Lemmy that exaggerate just for the sake of it, making anything but a circle jerk impossible.
The headline of this post leaves not much to do except hating the EBU because apparently they are actively trying to suppress any support for Palestine - except they aren't. It's the same rules as every year and nothing really changed. We could discuss if this is a good policy or if the ESC should be more political or whatever. But headlines like this kill any nuance.
Soooo you can fly a rainbow flag but can't fly an ace flag? Can't fly any other sexual identity flag?
Hanlon’s Razor is useful in this situation.
Are there any acts that would be likely to make a public stand like that?
Israel /Netanyahu is probably going to get away with a shameless display.
Frankly it's disgusting Israel is even allowed to participate.
The Finnish act windows95man has been talking about protesting to the Finnish media, but we don't really know how yet. He also mentioned that there may be other acts with him.
Not sure about this year, but a few years ago the Icelandic act Hatari brought out a Palestinian flag.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/18/europe/iceland-eurovision-palestine-intl/index.html