By Daphne Anson
To readers of this blog, and more generally, Sandra Watfa is probably the best-known public face of the anti-Israel Inminds group.
Her uncompromising sentiments are encapsulated, inter alia, in this recent post:
On 30 November Inminds projected a slide show onto the walls of the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London, protesting the holding of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Israel.
Yes. Arch-BDSer Alex Seymour (aka Seymour Alexander) was, as usual, on hand to record the event (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHiA4MaPBfQ) ‘Nearly 150 Artists, including Eurovision winners, judges and broadcasters have all supported the Palestinian call to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 if held in Israel‘ Inminds itself reports, and goes on to quote its chairman, Abbas Ali, as saying ‘It’s unacceptable that something as culturally prestigious as the iconic Eurovision Song Contest, which is meant to bring people together through music, is handed over to an apartheid regime … We are here to ask the BBC to serve its licence payers by taking a moral stand against racism, and pull out of next years Eurovision if its held in Israel.’ It reports, too, that
‘The projection lasted over an hour during which time many passers by and BBC employees came to congratulate us for voicing their own concerns of how inappropriate it would be for the Eurovision to be hosted by Israel, and shameful for the BBC to support it.’ [Emphasis added]
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