The Eurovision Song Contest Finals are set to begin on May 14. In NZ, it isn’t a big thing but it does garner a several hundred million TV audience. This year it is being held in Tel Aviv, Israel. Consequently, the BDS Movement has made great effort to have it boycotted. Manipulation of social media seems to be the tactique du jour and the BDS Movement have taken to it with alacrity.
“The anti-semitic BDS Activists are trying every deceptive way to attack Israel, even when dealing with Eurovision which aims to unite people and cultures,” Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan said Thursday. “We have now proven that the boycott organizations are not only antisemitic and support terror, but lie and fabricate support for their agenda.”
The ministry said it began investigating the issue in November 2018. Last month, it sent information on the 232 accounts in question to both Twitter and the European Broadcasting Union. As of Thursday, the Ministry said, 33 of the accounts had been closed.
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