When the Iceland band Hatari was announced to have received 186 points in Eurovision, members displayed Palestinian banners - which was against the Eurovision rules.
But one of the members of the BDSM-themed band had leather straps wrapped around his arm that look suspiciously like tefillin, the straps attacked to leather boxes that Orthodox Jewish men put on during prayers every weekday.
Hatari:
Tefillin:
In previous videos for Hatari, I see someone wearing straps around his arm sometimes - but never in a way that resembles tefillin:
Only in Tel Aviv do we see any of their members with more than three wraps around one of their arms:
It could be a coincidence, but given their animosity towards Israel and the Jewish state, I'm not so sure.
Incidentally, Madonna was appropriated the symbol as well in one of her videos, which is assumed to be due to her following Kabbalistic influences:
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