{"id":59294,"date":"2026-05-16T16:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/pro-palestinian-protest-near-eurovision-venue-draws-police-action\/16\/05\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T16:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:07:59","slug":"pro-palestinian-protest-near-eurovision-venue-draws-police-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/pro-palestinian-protest-near-eurovision-venue-draws-police-action\/16\/05\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian protest near Eurovision venue draws police action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Austrian police launched a large operation near the Eurovision Song Contest venue in Vienna shortly before the final began on Saturday evening, as masked pro-Palestinian activists staged a protest against Israel\u2019s participation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The demonstrators gathered on the steps of the city\u2019s main library, chanting slogans and holding placards. Officers carried members of an initial group of protesters down the steps, only for a second group to move into position shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The library is located at a metro station close to the Vienna Stadthalle, the venue where the contest is being held.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Earlier in the day, several thousand people took part in a separate demonstration in Vienna against Israel\u2019s participation in the international music competition. That protest passed peacefully, with no arrests or major incidents, a police spokesman told dpa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/pro-palestinian-protest-near-eurovision-193830538.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austrian police launched a large operation near the Eurovision Song Contest venue in Vienna shortly before the final began on Saturday evening,<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/pro-palestinian-protest-near-eurovision-venue-draws-police-action\/16\/05\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/dpa_international_526\/7fdb20104f542e06077ef0e982c6e3be","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}