{"id":386717,"date":"2018-11-27T06:10:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T05:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-groups-urge-boycott-of-israeli-eurovision\/"},"modified":"2018-11-27T06:10:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T05:10:13","slug":"presstv-uk-groups-urge-boycott-of-israeli-eurovision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-groups-urge-boycott-of-israeli-eurovision\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK groups urge boycott of Israeli Eurovision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Three UK-based pro-Palestine groups have called on European artists and performers to boycott the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest hosted by Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manchester Palestine Action, Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Manchester Jewish Action for Palestine posted a tweet on Monday, urging songwriters and performers to boycott the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, scheduled be held in Israel \u201cjust as they once boycotted the South African apartheid regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael regularly uses culture to cover up, justify and distract from its oppressive regime of military occupation and apartheid against the Palestinian people,\u201d read the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The three groups called for a protest at the BBC Headquarters in London on December 1\u00a0to demand that the British Broadcasting Corporation withdraw\u00a0from the song contest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoin the protest and take a stand against BBC artwashing apartheid,\u201d said the post on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe demand an end to Brand&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/11\/26\/581214\/UK-Palestine-groups-Israel-Eurovision\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three UK-based pro-Palestine groups have called on European artists and performers to boycott the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest hosted by Israel. Manchester Palestine Action, Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Manchester Jewish Action for Palestine posted a tweet on Monday, urging songwriters and performers to boycott the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, scheduled be held in Israel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}