Eurovision winner Loreen passionately defends the contest amid calls for a boycott over Israel's inclusion By Sean O'grady For Mailonline Published: 01:53, 10 May 2024 | Updated: 01:54, 10 May 2024 e-mail View comments Eurovision winner Loreen has defended the contest amid ongoing calls for a boycott over Israel's inclusion. The singer, 40, won the contest for Sweden for a second time in 2023 for her song Tattoo, 11 years after she first took home the crown for Euphoria in 2012. Israel's participation in the Eurovision has been controversial this year with some believing the country should not be included given the ongoing Israel-Hamas war .
But Loreen has insisted the contest brings joy to the millions of people around the world who watch it. Speaking to The Sun , she said: ' Positive attracts positive and negative attracts negative. If we were to boycott or shut this hub of positive energy, punishing millions for the distortion somewhere else, that would be so destructive.
' Eurovision winner Loreen has defended the contest amid ongoing calls for a boycott over Israel's inclusion (pictured during the 2023 contest) Israel's Eden Golan made it through Thursday night's semi-final in Malmo with her song Hurricane. She will now perform in the final on Saturday ' Right now we need more countries to connect with this, more artists, more creators, more people to generate good energy. 'Distortion, I call it distortion, these weird things happening are trauma-tising all of us.
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