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Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2054511/israel-bashing-eurovision-october-7
Israel-Bashing Eurovision Has-Beens Shame Themselves by Targeting October 7 Survivor
(Daily Express-UK) Angela Epstein - The Eurovision Song Contest, the world's largest song festival, prides itself in being tone deaf to politics. This year there are calls to ban the Israeli entry sung by Yuval Raphael. The last time she attended an event celebrating music, song and peace was at Israel's Nova festival on Oct. 7, 2023. As Hamas stormed in from Gaza, Yuval fled for her life, taking refuge in a bomb shelter, crammed in with 50 others as the terrorists fired guns and threw in grenades. Hiding under a pile of dead bodies for eight hours, the singer was one of only 11 people in the shelter to survive. She still has shrapnel in her leg. But instead of applauding Yuval's resilience, as well as her repeated messages of peace and hope, 70 former contestants are calling for a discussion over Israel's inclusion. Their position is ill informed and pathetic - a grotesque inversion of morality and an utter betrayal of human dignity and decency. It is unthinkable that a young woman who survived the Oct. 7 massacre should be vilified this way. Yuval was just a music fan. She had no appetite for war or politics. And yet, through no fault of her own, she is being forced to travel with a full security detail.