PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat slammed the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) on Saturday for banning the Palestinian flag from the 2016 Eurovision song contest, calling the ruling “discriminatory and a serious offense against our nation.”
In a letter obtained by Ma’an addressed to EBU President Jean-Paul Philippot, Erekat expressed his “outrage and indignation” toward the decision, which also banned flags from other disputed political entities such as Crimea, Nagorno-Karabakh, Northern Cyprus, and the Islamic State.
We demanded a formal apology from @EBU_HQ for banning the flag of #Palestine https://t.co/6ubMGawFsq #Eurovision pic.twitter.com/9ihXanwvMf
— Palestine PLO – NAD (@nadplo) April 30, 2016
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Source: Tne Palestine Chronicle
