Eurovision LIVE: Thousands Protests Against Israeli Eurovision Participation | Sweden News | N18G

Eurovision LIVE: Thousands Protests Against Israeli Eurovision Participation | Sweden Live | CNBC TV18 MALMO - People protest against Israeli participation in the Eurovision Song Contest currently held in Malmo. Thousands protest Israel’s participation in Eurovision Thousands of demonstrators are protesting Israel’s participation in Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final over the nation’s war in Gaza. Before the world’s largest live music event began in the southern Swedish city of Malmö this week, Swedish police had geared up for a nearly unprecedented security operation. Hundreds of extra riot police have been deployed to the city, snipers have been placed on the roofs and drones can be seen hovering in the sky. There were two reasons for the tightened security: Sweden raised its terror threat to level four of five last year after a spate of Quran-burning protests made it a “prioritised” target for Islamist terror attacks. And now Israel – whose war against Ham