‘It’s blood libel with glitter’: Anti-Semitism fears engulf Eurovision

Boycotts and protests against Israel competing in the Eurovision Song Contest are putting Jewish people in Europe in danger, senior rabbis have claimed. Before Saturday’s 70th-anniversary grand final in Vienna, Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis, said of people protesting against the Israeli contestant: “This isn’t activism.