Footage posted to social media by attendees at the Eurovision Song Contest’s Jury Show offer glimpses of a chaotic scene Wednesday night.
Videos posted to X depict the crowd booing and chanting ‘Free Palestine’ throughout Eden Golan’s performance for Israel, almost drowning the singer out entirely.
On May 8, 16 countries taking part in the semi-final of the international competition took the stage to perform their songs to an arena of fans in Sweden.
While television viewers of the final performance will determine the winner of the contest, juries still cast their votes at the Jury Show in order to determine an outcome in case voting breaks down during the finals.
One X user called the atmosphere in the venue ‘horrible’ and said you could ‘feel the tension,’ while others simply shared videos of the loudly booing crowd.
Eden Golan was forced to change the lyrics to her song, originally titled October Rain, for breaking EBU rules by …