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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez requires Israel to be banned
The Spanish prime minister has referred to as for Israel to be banned from the Eurovision Track Contest over its navy motion in Gaza.
Pedro Sánchez famous Russia has been banned from the competition since 2022 following its invasion of Ukraine, and mentioned there shouldn’t be “double requirements”.
Israel got here second within the contest’s grand closing in Switzerland on Saturday, however topped the general public vote – with Spanish viewers giving Israel the utmost 12 factors.
Israeli minister for diaspora affairs, Amichai Chikli, ridiculed Sánchez with a social media publish that mentioned the vote had been a “slap within the face” for the Spanish PM, “which we’ve heard right here in Jerusalem”.
BBC Information has requested Eurovision organisers the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for remark.
Talking at a information convention in Madrid, Sánchez mentioned: “No one was up in arms when the Russian invasion of Ukraine started three years in the past and [Russia] needed to depart worldwide competitions and couldn’t participate, as we’ve simply seen, in Eurovision.
“Subsequently Israel should not both, as a result of what we can not enable is double requirements in tradition.”
He additionally expressed solidarity with “the individuals of Palestine who’re experiencing the injustice of battle and bombardment”.
“Spain’s dedication to worldwide regulation and human rights should be fixed and should be coherent,” he mentioned. “Europe’s must be too.”
Sánchez and his authorities, which formally acknowledged a Palestinian state final 12 months, have been harsh critics of Israel, and final week in Congress the prime minister referred to the nation as “a genocidal state”.
Israel has strenuously denied accusations of genocide, and its overseas ministry summoned the Spanish ambassador for a proper reprimand over Sánchez’s “critical remarks”.
At Eurovision, Spain’s televote noticed the nation award Israel most factors for its music New Day Will Rise by Yuval Raphael. Spain’s broadcast community RTVE has since requested an audit of the votes.
Forward of the Eurovision closing on Saturday, RTVE aired a message in help of Palestinians – regardless of being warned to keep away from references to Gaza by the EBU.
Spain’s entry, Esa Diva by Melody, completed in twenty fourth place on Saturday evening in Basel.
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