PETITION: demand the UK Eurovision contestant drops out!
Posted: 9th April 2026
Whilst Palestinians are still facing Israel’s genocide against them, it’s obscene for events like Eurovision to include Israel, giving it a stage to conceal its atrocities.
Palestinians have called on us to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest over its inclusion of Israel.
Join us in calling on the UK contestant, Sam Battle, to heed the call from Palestinians and withdraw from the competition.
Just last week the Israeli government passed a hideous law introducing the possibility of the death penalty as a punishment for imprisoned Palestinians. In the West Bank, Israeli settlers continue to violently attack Palestinians, raiding villages and forcing them from their homes.
In this context, we are calling on Sam Battle to follow the lead of the five countries that have pulled out of Eurovision this year, and many thousands of artists, cultural workers and queer organisations who have called for a boycott.
It is now more than five months since the so-called ceasefire was declared, yet Israeli airstrikes are still killing Palestinians in Gaza. Just last week an airstrike on Khan Younis killed and injured dozens. Palestinians in Gaza are still facing starvation due to Israeli restrictions on access to aid.
Israel’s public broadcaster KAN, which participates in Eurovision, has repeatedly justified and incited this genocide on air, including by publishing a video of Israeli children singing “we will annihilate them all [Palestinians in Gaza].” This is who the European Broadcasting Union, and all the artists who perform in Eurovision, are choosing to stand alongside.
Palestinians are clear in their demands: we must boycott Eurovision until it stops being used to art- and pink-wash genocide.
We owe it to the thousands of incredible Palestinian musicians, artists and performers who have been injured, murdered, imprisoned and oppressed by Israel’s regime of apartheid and genocide. Join us to press the UK contestant to do the right thing and withdraw.
In solidarity,
Stella
PSC Campaigns Officer
