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"Activists on Friday staged a demonstration in central Vienna against Israel's participation in one of the world's biggest cultural events, the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest. Footage shows musicians performing at 'Stage Protest', as protesters chant and wave Palestinian flags. The organiser of Song Protest, Wilhelm Langthaler, accused the European Broadcasting Union of supporting Israel's 'genocidal warfare'. "It's an incredible, obvious form of double standard that they exclude Russia at once, in one second, and Israel, [...] they just want to support genocide. This is the reality," he said. Michael Barenboim, a musician, said they were staging a protest to remind countries that they were 'complicit in genocide'. "When states fail in their duties, civil society has to step up. And this is civil society basically telling our states that they don't accept that they are complicit in genocide," Barenboim explained. The grand finale of the contest, comprising acts from 25 countries, will take place in Vienna on Saturday evening. Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, the Netherlands, and Iceland are boycotting the contest over Israel's participation, with three broadcasters refusing to televise the world's largest live music event."
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