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A Swedish man identified by reports as an “ecofascist” associated with Nazi groups promoting a “race war” was sentenced to eight years in prison, with six suspended, on Thursday for plotting a mass murder using chemical weapons at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest.

Spain joined group of countries threatening not to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest unless Israel is excluded.

LONDON (AP) — The Netherlands added itself Friday to a list of countries pressuring organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest to drop Israel from the contest because of its war in the Gaza Strip.

A senior Russian Foreign Ministry official claimed on Wednesday that the United States would send a contestant to the revamped Intervision Song Contest, a Cold War-era competition meant to rival the much more influential Eurovision.

The president of Iceland’s National Broadcaster (RÚV), Stefán Jón Hafstein, published a commentary on Tuesday calling for Israel to be banned from the Eurovision Song Contest – and suggested that, in the event that the ban was impossible, the contest could allow Israeli singers to participate without their national flags.

This year’s Eurovision Song Contest winner called for Israel to be excluded from next year’s competition in an interview published Thursday.

The moderators of the Reddit community dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest shut down the page entirely for 12 hours after the Grand Final in the early morning hours of Sunday due to “hate speech and strong emotional reactions.”

The time has come: After a typically turbulent month of gimmicks, weird social media videos, and more fondue than anyone’s doctor would recommend, the Eurovision Song Contest will hold its Grand Final on Saturday.

Cameras caught an anti-Israel protester at Sunday’s Eurovision opening event, the “turquoise carpet,” making a throat-slitting gesture and spitting in the direction of the Israeli delegation to the competition.

The Eurovision Song Contest says artists at this year’s event will only be allowed to display the flags of the country they are representing.

Israeli singer Eden Golan landed home on Sunday after a tumultuous participation at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden, where she faced hostility from fellow competitors, a booing audience, and a thousands-strong pro-Hamas mob outside of the venue.

The Netherlands’ contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest who was dramatically expelled from the competition hours before the grand finale will likely be charged for making illegal threats, Swedish police said Monday.

A Eurovision juror said his views on Israel influenced his vote, sparking suggestions the contest was rigged against Jewish singer Eden Golan.

Israel received the second-most votes in the Eurovision Song Contest from the Irish public despite protests from Ireland’s Bambie Thug.

Bambie Thug declared that the “queers are coming” after the victory of fellow “non-binary” performer Nemo from Switzerland.

Self-described “non-binary” Swiss rapper Nemo has won the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, with the song “The Code”. 

Bambie Thug, the Irish entry into the Eurovision 2024 contest, said Saturday that she cried in disappointment when she learned that the Israeli singer, Eden Golan, had qualified for the finals in Malmö, Sweden.

Thousands of pro-Hamas protesters took to the streets of Malmö on Saturday in opposition to Israel’s participation in the Eurovision contest.

The Netherlands’ contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest was expelled hours before Saturday’s final over an alleged backstage incident.

The Eurovision Song Contest, the most flamboyant attempt to prevent World War III ever conceived, will hold its annual Grand Final on Saturday in the most emotionally charged political atmosphere in recent memory.

Eden Golan, a Eurovision contestant from Israel, endured a torrent of boos ahead of her singing performance at the semi-final in Malmo, Sweden, which has increasingly become a city brimming with intense anti-semitism.

The Jewish community of Malmö, Sweden, fear targeted attacks this week as their home hosts the Eurovision Song Contest.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) issued a statement saying it “regretted” that a performer at the first semi-final of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Tuesday wore a Palestinian keffiyeh on his arm, saying the garment served to “compromise the non-political nature of the event.”

The organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest reiterated that Palestinian flags are not permitted at the event.

Israeli public broadcaster Kan confirmed on Sunday that it would ask songwriters to rewrite submissions in consideration to represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest after reports indicated that the contest would reject a song with references to the Hamas October 7 slaughter because it was too “political.”

Recording artists Robyn, Fever Ray, Viagra Boys, and 1,000 more members of Sweden’s music community are demanding that Israel be excluded from Eurovision 2024.

Swedish singer Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her power ballad “Tattoo” at the annual music competition.

The Eurovision Song Contest will hold its final competition on Saturday, pitting 25 of the continent’s most musical countries – and Australia, for some reason – against each other in an increasingly unsuccessful bid to prevent them from going to war.

President Zelenskly wanted to address the hundreds of millions worldwide expected to watch the finals of the Eurovision on Saturday.

TURIN, Italy (AP) — Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra won the Eurovision Song Contest, a clear show of popular support for the group’s war-ravaged nation that went beyond music. The band and its song “Stefania” beat 24 other performers early Sunday

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Fresh off his country’s Eurovision win, a defiant Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed early Sunday to one day host the song contest in the embattled city of Mariupol, which is almost entirely in Russian hands aside from a stalwart group of a few hundred Ukrainian fighters who continue to hold out in a steel factory.

The European continent – and Australia, for some reason – are preparing to crown the winner on Saturday of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, a pop song extravaganza invented as an alternative to World War III.

For the first time in two years, the Eurovision Song Contest will take place on Saturday, pitting the countries of Europe (and some invited interlopers, like the American rapper Flo-Rida) against each other to see who can write the catchiest pop song of the year.

Israel’s Eden Alene won a place Tuesday in the finals of the Eurovision song contest, despite pro-Palestinian protests outside the event in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She is the country’s first Ethiopian Jewish contender in the annual European song contest.

Singer Eden Alene is set to represent Israel at Tuesday night’s Eurovision song contest in the Netherlands as Israel’s first Ethiopian Jewish contender, with war still raging at home between Israel at the Palestinian Hamas terrorist organization.

The Eurovision Song Contest and the Glastonbury Music Festival have been cancelled as Europe shuts down during the growing coronavirus pandemic.