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At least 10,000 people marched through the streets in Sweden’s third-largest city, Malmö, during the second round of Eurovision’s semi-finals on Thursday. Draped in keffiyehs and Palestinian flags, their message was both loud and clear: boycott Israel and end the war in Gaza. The timing was carefully chosen; that same evening, Eden Golan, Israel’s contribution to the contest, was scheduled to perform at the second semi-final with the song Hurricane. Critics have been clamouring for months, all over Europe; they want Israel excluded from the contest for its genocidal war on Gaza – the same way …

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