because you expect pro Palestinian groups to create violent disorder, you don’t want a singer representing a country that was the victim of one of the worlds worse terrorist atrocities, who was also a victim herself, taking part in it.
Israel is not a victim, though! Israel is a violent, oppressive regime and has been since ... before its official declaration of independence, actually! See "Plan Dalet"!
And, yes, the singer herself is arguably a victim. But the state of Israel is not! And, yes, deliberately picking a "woe me!" representative is a deliberate propaganda move! The notion that Israel treats the ESC as a propaganda vehicle should be pretty uncontroversial given that last year their president personally intervened to have them change the lyrics that were not accepted because they were too political
You’re worried about the children of your middle class friends, and your friends being involved in that public disorder? Maybe you should advise them not to get involved in public disorder?
Yeah, sorry not sorry, I am a lot more invested in protected freedom of expression than in the public relations campaign of some rogue state! Shutting up is, literally, the last thing anyone should do in the face of state repression! That way, authoritarianism lies!
You call that "public disorder" - there is not a single documented case of a protest getting out of hand around here (except: when the police started it!).
I personally fucking hated COVID protesters - and yet I always argued against state repression against them! There was that moment when I was genuinely looking around for an emergency exit as a huge police cordon was bearing down on a protest right in front of the bar in which I happened to be sitting. But that still did not make me think "yeah, actually, the state literally beating the crap out of its citizens - even if their demands are stupid as per my own take - sounds like a bloody grand idea!"
Shutting up is literally the worst possible response to repression! I swear, if pro-Israel protests received anything like this level of repression, I might actually feel tempted tp turn up to one - holding a sign saying "I actually think Israel is a horrible regime - but I remain fundamentally opposed to state repression. So ... freedom of expression for Israel supporters!"