Until today, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you what the Eurovision Song Contest was or where it was held, but it seems that the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest is well underway in Malmo, Sweden. Around 100,000 people are attending, making it a pretty big deal, and one of the scheduled performers is an Israeli singer.
That, of course, is drawing some protesters. Among them? The Doom Pixie, Greta Thunberg.
Eurovision fans dressed in quirky outfits, sequins and their national colours arrived for the event, while around a hundred protesters chanted “boycott Israel” and “shame on you” outside the venue before being ushered away by police.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg earlier in the day joined more than 10,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the centre of Malmo who object to Israel’s participation in the musical contest.
Police said protests were largely calm. Nine people had been…
