{"id":69890,"date":"2019-05-11T17:05:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T15:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=69890"},"modified":"2019-05-10T15:32:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T13:32:45","slug":"09-05-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=69890","title":{"rendered":"Irish Pro-Israel Groups Condemn BDS Boycott of Eurovision Song Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Irish Pro-Israel Groups Condemn BDS Boycott of Eurovision Song Contest<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Irish singer Sarah McTernan. Photo: Screenshot.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Several top Irish pro-Israel groups and leaders have signed an open letter condemning attempts by BDS groups and Irish LGBTQ activists to pressure the country\u2019s Eurovision song contest contestant, Sarah McTernan, to boycott this year\u2019s competition finals in Israel, which the signees accused of \u201cpinkwashing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that in publicly targeting Sarah, and in attempting to [pressure] her into not participating, the letter\u2019s signatories have devalued the battle fought by the gay community, and others in Israel, for recognition of their rights and for respect for difference, not to mention the progress made so far and battles which remain to be fought,\u201d stated the letter by the Irish pro-Israel leaders, which includes Alan Shatter, former Irish justice minister; Jackie Goodall, director of the Ireland-Israel Alliance; and Irish folk musician Keith Faye.<\/span><\/p>\n

The letter by the Irish pro-Israel leaders added that the Irish BDS and LGBTQ activists should instead focus on the discrimination the gay community faces elsewhere in the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe letter\u2019s signatories might better occupy their time by focusing on the discrimination, oppression and brutality suffered by LGBTQIA persons throughout the Middle East. Perhaps they might apply their political activism to facilitate the holding of the first ever Palestinian Pride Parade in Ramallah or Gaza, and to end Palestinian oppression of gay Palestinians. We would be very interested to see how they fare!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Irish BDS groups accused Israel of \u201cpinkwashing,\u201d which they said is a \u201cPR tactic used by Israel which cynically exploits support for LGBTQIA people to whitewash its oppression of the Palestinian people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, more than 60 LGBTQ groups worldwide, including Queer Action Ireland, have signed a petition calling for boycotting Eurovision, which will take place from May 14 to May 18 in Tel Aviv.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Irish Pro-Israel Groups Condemn BDS Boycott of Eurovision Song Contest bJNS.org Irish singer Sarah McTernan. Photo: Screenshot. \u2013 Several top Irish pro-Israel groups and leaders have signed an open letter condemning attempts by BDS groups and Irish LGBTQ activists to pressure the country\u2019s Eurovision song contest contestant, Sarah McTernan, to boycott this year\u2019s competition finals in Israel, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69890"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70233,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69890\/revisions\/70233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}