The only way you can guarantee to keep it off your own TV is by changing channel. It’s a very popular show. Which is why it is being pressured to stop hosting Israel.

Broadening the tent to include fascists normalises them, lending credibility where there should only be contempt.

Eurovision is a very popular show. If we allow its campy nationalism to be a vehicle for humanising unapologetic fascism then we reduce the hope that the public will bring electoral pressure on the Europe wide leaderships that have been supporting and providing diplomatic cover for the genocide in Israel.

Those two missing camera films should contain the start of the violent interaction. What we are left with shows one of the security guards running towards the protestors carrying a hammer and a whip. And we have the physical evidence where the injury on the face of one of the protestors appears to have been made by a hammer. The same protestor has a large round bruise on his torso from a blow from a sledge hammer. Which when we next see that same security guard, on the videos made available, he is carrying.

How this fracas started is vitally important for the UK’s government proscription of the group. They are desperate to portray the protestors as having violent intent. However the same group made a number of attacks on the manufacturing of arms and other materials destined for Israel’s genocidal army but to this point never hurt anyone.

What the missing footage likely shows is that the protestors where violently assaulted by the guards and by the police that subsequently arrived and that they had a fight or flight reaction.