Iceland's public broadcaster RÚV has confirmed it will not take part in next year's Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, becoming the latest country to withdraw in protest at Israel's participation.

theglasgowbellSoD is run by a dog-loving Greater London woman called Tabatha Caplan. Caplan told The Bell that she formed the group in April as a “grassroots movement”; her Facebook account suggests it started slightly earlier. Because British Jews make up such a small proportion of the British population, she believes, “strong advocacy really matters”. She added that the group’s Scottish members, of which she claims there are “hundreds”, asked her to “put together a draft letter they could then use as a template to challenge the appearance of these combined flags”. Caplan then posted the template link to SoD’s X account, which has over 2,500 followers, prompting the stack of emails we have received, and now totals 695. One of the councillors who received the emails was Govan’s Dan Hutchison. He told The Bell that “more than half” of his inbox was taken up by the emails after he got back from a week off. “It’s a bit mad,” he said over the phone. He added that “it definitely” takes away from “actual local issues”. Although such flags, as with the Saltires in the north, aren’t allowed on lampposts and will be eventually removed by the council, Hutchison said he’d “rather we were cleaning leaves out of drains not pulling down bloody flags”.🔗 in bio🖋 sign up for freePhoto: United in Resistance, via Facebook.

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