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Israeli singer Netta performs after winning the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, Portugal, in May 2018.

World News
Music & Culture

Palestinian Artists Call For Eurovision Boycott; Israel Responds With PR Campaign

9:18pm May 10, 2019

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The Eurovision Song Contest starts next week in Tel Aviv. A cultural collective in Gaza is calling for a boycott of the competition; Israel has responded with PR videos and a "BDS" website of its own.

A Qatari-born Palestinian, Omar Barghouti (shown in 2016) is a leader of the international boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel known as BDS.

National

U.S. Denies Entry To Leader Of Movement To Boycott Israel

3:21pm April 11, 2019

by Hannah Allam

Omar Barghouti is one of the founders of a Palestinian-led boycott movement intended to pressure Israel on its occupation of the West Bank. His visa to enter the U.S. has apparently been revoked.