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COMMENT. A single mother with three children, thoughtfully named after Palestinian freedom heroes, is on her way to the park to play. She brings a lunch bag, coffee, juice for the children, bread, zatar and boiled eggs. She can’t afford to take the children to a café, but it doesn’t matter because at Folkets Park the children can play, meet friends, she meets other adults, talks, hangs out.
On Saturday, May 4, Folkets Park, located next to the Möllevågen district in the heart of Malmö, will be transformed into Eurovillage.
The park will be cordoned off with picket fences, and a search will be required to enter. Police officers will be deployed with extra weapons.
Eurovillage is part of the Eurovision Song Contest. The main sponsor is the skin and hair care company Moroccanoil.
Political SVT programs that are normally substandard (Agenda) or news that can be biased (Aktuellt and Rapport) have during the war in Gaza repeatedly failed in its journalistic task to illuminate two sides of a conflict in a balanced manner.
Fell SVT for impartiality
The review board has condemned SVT more than once for violating the requirement of impartiality. But with the handling of Eurovision, Israel’s participation and the fact that the music competition is sponsored by a company with factories in Israel, SVT’s failure takes it to another level.
SVT acts like a large corporation where one hand plays objective journalism while the other cleans up a genocide.
Artists show civil courage by skipping the celebration in Malmö – on SVT’s The cultural news they are said to drop out because they have been pressured.
The same morning that SVT and other media report on mass graves found in Gaza The morning studio a light-hearted feature about the preparations for the big schlagerfest in Malmö. The question of why Russia was excluded from Eurovision but Israel is allowed to remain does not arise.
Have digging journalists taken time off?
Have all the digging journalists taken time off? Can anyone review Moroccanoil and the Eurovillage sponsorship? Where did the motto about “follow the money” go?
During the FIFA World Cup in Qatar 2022, SVT showed that it is possible to balance coverage and critical investigative journalism.
But when the entertainment used to whitewash human rights violations takes place at home, all journalistic voices in the stronghold of free speech seem to have fallen silent.
A mother is torn from her home, the soldiers pull her hair, they throw out the smallest children, mother sees the soldiers joke about throwing her baby away, but then they put the baby down in the street. She pleads to collect some belongings. They respond with their weapons.
It is May 15, 1948 in Palestine and Al Nakba has started. Roughly 750,000 Palestinians will be displaced, with newly instituted laws Israelis will take property and land from Palestinians and make it their own.
A horrific act of terror by Hamas that kills 1,200 innocent Israeli civilians and takes 1,200 hostages is the start of a full-scale war against Palestine.
34,000 Palestinian civilians dead
The occupying power Israel, backed by the United States and other Western countries, has to date killed 34,000 Palestinian civilians, of which 15,000 are children.
Hospital after hospital has been razed to the ground, incubators have been shut down, with deaths of premature babies as a result.
Mosques and churches have been demolished. There is a genocide going on that we are following in real time. Sweden will be remembered as the country that welcomed an Israeli contribution, a song called “October Rain” from the beginning, a political hit about the terrorist act.
Check-point of occupying power
SVT transforms Folkets park in Malmö into Eurovillage. If you want to get past the barriers into the park that is said to belong to the people, you need to be searched.
Like passing a check-point controlled by an occupying power.
The vast majority of my friends in Malmö belong to families that have been displaced from their homes. Some are Palestinians, others from the Middle East, many from Latin America.
Now these people, who were forced to flee and found a new home in Malmö, will be deprived of their park.
There are a thousand reasons to protest Eurovision – Eurovillage is yet another.
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