The organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest have countered calls to exclude Israel from the music event because of the Gaza war. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is committed to ensuring that the Eurovision Song Contest “remains a non-political event that unites audiences worldwide through music,” the organizers said in response to a dpa enquiry to the EBU headquarters in Geneva on Thursday. It is a competition for broadcasters, not for governments, it said. The EBU has been saying something like this for weeks. The final of the Eurovision Song Contest is scheduled to take place on May …