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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Pressure is mounting on European broadcasters to boycott Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest because of the war in Gaza.
Flagging Russia's earlier exclusion from the competition, the Swedish musicians said it was their "duty" as cultural practitioners to "bring about change and counter artwashing".
In Norway last month, semi-naked protesters knelt in the snow in front of the country's public broadcaster NRK to also demand Israel's exclusion from Eurovision.
And in Spain, the leader of the left-wing party Podemos, Ione Belarra, has called on the Spanish Congress to debate the removal of Israel from the competition as part of "a pressure tactic to halt the genocide against Palestinian people".
She has registered a non-legal proposal to request the debate, which if approved would urge the Spanish government to "position itself clearly against Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest".
The EBU has also said Russia's ban resulted from "persistent breaches of membership obligations and the violation of public service media values" by Russian broadcasters.
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