If
can't protect all participants, they shouldn't host the event.
It's a very reasonable demand.
Safety threats have always been an issue - islamists wanted to blow up the Crystal Hall and a hotel hosting some delegations in Baku back in 2012. Unfortunately, that's the world we live in and it's important to make sure that each participants and visitor/attendee feels safe.
Regarding the voting, people who have been in favor of an independent Palestine wouldn't have voted for Israel anyway (probably) and since it's not possible to do some "anti-voting" like in national finals with superfinals, I don't think that televoting really is an issue.
Back in 2019, Kobi Marimi had an excellent voice (if you ask me) and he still failed to get a single point from the juries (a ballads, great vocals didn't impress them at all) and also the televoting didn't really like it either.
So dunno, I think that we Eurofans overthink things like this whilst most casual viewers don't really feel so passionate about it - of course the Gaza/Israel war is a subject of heated debate but people will not start voting for Israel because they support them against Hamas all of a sudden and like
@I bims pointed out, Europeans don't feel so "closely" connected to either Israel nor Palestine, imo.
Anyway, I can't wait to hear the song, though - especially after all the "EBU didn't accept song #1 and song #2 fiasco" but I'm still cautiously pessimistic that
will be part of Malmö 2024.