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Celebrated musicians including Massive Attack, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Sigur Rรณs, Nadine Shah, and many more have signed an open letter calling for a boycott of the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in protest of Israelโ€™s participation.

Campaign groups No Music For Genocide and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel are calling for a boycott of this yearโ€™s highly divisive Eurovision Song Contest.

More than 1,000 artists, including Massive Attack, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Sigur Rรณs, Nadine Shah, Mogwai and Hot Chip, have signed an open letter calling for a boycott of Eurovision 2026 in protest of Israelโ€™s participation.

The letter calls upon the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to ban KAN โ€“ the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation โ€“ from the upcoming contest.

โ€œFor the third consecutive year,โ€ the letter states, Israel will be โ€œcelebrated onstage despite its ongoing genocide in Gaza, while Russia remains banned for its illegal invasion of Ukraine.โ€

โ€œWe refuse to be silent when Israelโ€™s genocidal violence soundtracks and silences Palestinian lives,โ€ the letter reads. โ€œWhen children in Israeli prisons endure beatings for humming a tune. When all thatโ€™s left of nearly every stage, studio, bookshop and university in Gaza is piles of rubble, under which slaughtered bodies still await recovery and proper burial.โ€

In a statement, a spokesperson for No Music For Genocide said: โ€œPeople of conscience around the globe are fighting complicity in every industry for a free Palestine and a freer world. While many of us in the industry make light of Eurovision or doubt our own power as cultural producers, genocidal Israelโ€™s leaders speak openly about the contestโ€™s geopolitical value.โ€

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