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I am writing to you to inform you of my intention to boycott Eurovision 2024 following the European Broadcasting Union’s shameful decision to include genocidal Israel. In allowing Israel to take part, the EBU is participating in the artswashing of a genocide which has so far claimed the lives of over 30,000 Palestinians, nearly half of whom are children. In 2022, you said the event should stand for “the basic and ultimate values of democracy” in response to questions about Russia’s ban. Yet year on year, despite numerous human rights organisations calling out Israeli apartheid, Eurovision continues to provide cultural cover to a state committing grave human rights violations. Swedish Member of the European Parliament Abir Al-Sahlani was indeed correct when she said ‘Human rights have a skin colour, and the darker you are, the less human rights you have’. In recent statements, Eurovision has dismissed accusations of hypocrisy regarding the decision to remove Russia, but not Israel. This is particularly troubling given the ICJ found it plausible that Israel’s acts could amount to genocide and it is currently on trial. One must ask, what does Israel have to do to be disqualified? The EBU itself has now acknowledged the killing of journalists and media workers in the Gaza Strip and Israel’s refusal to allow the entry of international media. How many killed is too many to participate in Eurovision? I urge you to rethink your decision to include a state using starvation as a weapon of war, a state slaughtering besieged people, a state committed to ethnic cleansing and mass murder. Their participation will surely go down in history as the beginning of end of Eurovision. I will support the Palestinian call to boycott Eurovision 2024 and will pressure the U.K broadcaster, media and entry to withdraw from the contest should Israel participate.