JTA reported that winner of the 2018 Eurovision song contest in Portugal, Netta Barzilai said that calls to boycott this year’s Eurovision in Tel Aviv is a “bullying” of artists.
Being on the same stage, no matter what your religion or ethnicity or color, from all these countries, from all these cultures, this is a festival of light,” she said Monday. “For people to boycott light is spreading darkness. It’s the exact opposite thing," she added.