Boycott Israel's 'artwashed' Eurovision 2019, pro-Palestinian activists say
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As Tel Aviv gears up to host the Eurovision Song Contest, pro-Palestinian activists are urging performers to pull out of this year's competition - while the 2018 Israeli winner said she didn't believe in boycotts.
The call by the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement is part of a broader campaign to pressure governments, companies, performers and academics to disengage from Israel.
The movement sees Eurovision "as artwashing - whitewashing through arts" of what it calls Israel's decades-old regime of "military occupation and colonialism," its co-founder Omar Barghouti told Reuters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
