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- cross-posted to:
- Eurovision@europe.pub
Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia will boycott next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, after Israel was allowed to compete.
They were among a number of countries who had called for Israel to be excluded over the humanitarian toll of the war in Gaza, and accusations of unfair voting practices.
Despite calls for a vote on Israel’s participation, members instead approved a new set of rules intended to protect the integrity of the contest.
Ireland’s national broadcaster RTE said it felt that its “participation remains unconscionable given the appalling loss of lives in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis there which continues to put the lives of so many civilians at risk.”
In a statement, Dutch broadcaster Avrotros said that “participation under the current circumstances is incompatible with the public values that are essential to us”.
Spanish broadcaster RTVE added: “The board of directors of RTVE agreed last September that Spain would withdraw from Eurovision if Israel was part of it.”
“This withdrawal also means that RTVE will not broadcast the Eurovision 2026 final… nor the preliminary semi-finals.”
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So European countries are dropping out while the non European Israel can continue.
Mmmmm, one wonders how that happened. One also wonders if these people that decided to boycott Eurovision over this are antisemitesor just people with a heart.
Fuck the Israeli government.
Jail Netanyahu, retreat all your forces back into Israel, allow an independent Palestinian state, pay reparations to Palestine state, beg all Palestinians forgiveness for your 5+ decades crimes, then beg the world for forgiveness for calling everyone that protested their crimes and antisemite, and then maybe maybe maybe they should be allowed back into the world.
israel is NOT even in europe. seriously!
We have the same discussion every year and the European Broadcast Union is not restricted to countries in Europe.
At least it’s in the vicinity, unlike Australia.
Eurovision is not for Europe, it’s for channels subscribed to the European Broadcast Union
Which includes Australia (in fact they’re the biggest customer outside of continental EU)
We will not be watching and I’ll be sharing all the better alternatives to it. Like not supporting murder, genocide, state supported rapes, starving children, burning aid and many many more.
Honestly, I want to watch the alternatives, but don’t know of them, got any recommendations?
I think its great that countries are excluding themselves on this basis.
However, im not surprised that the contest has remained agnostic and that israel has not withdrawn.
Unfortunately with how the Dutch public broadcasting system works Eurovision wil still be broadcasted in the Netherlands. AVROTROS is an independent public broadcasting organization however it broadcasts it’s programming via the NPO the Dutch public broadcasting governing body. And NPO is also a member of EBU so the next Eurovision will be broadcasted by the NPO.
Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, and Slovenia should make their own Eurovision
With hookers, and blackjack!
Forget about the euro vision and the blackjack
I can’t boycott the Eurovision, I’ve never watched it
This added nothing to the discussion
not really a discussion if I agree.
The fact that this was up for debate, the fact that there are countries that choose to boycott as a result, the fact that this is news: these are wins people. The cracks have formed and it’s starting to buckle. It is now normal and mainstream to talk about boycotting the genocidal Israeli apartheid regime. Even the German apartheid-apologist institutions are forced to say they respect the decisions of non-apologist ones. Don’t take this as reason for cynicism and disappointment, it’s quite the opposite! Apartheid South Africa didn’t get boycotted, isolated and forced to recon with its crimes all at once, it was a process. KEEP PUSHING!
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we need an alternative to eurovision, and fast. seriously!
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You forgot the “from Hamas” part.
Hamas only exists in gaza, the rest of Palestine is free from Hamas
That’s demonstrably false. Remind me where the leaders of Hamas are right now?
I think you have intelligence to share with us. Where are they then? Demonstrate us, give us their addresses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leaders_of_Hamas
You can read all about it here. It’s under tke “Location” section.
There’s no information there about their current whereabouts in that article. Not even one mention of west bank. Have you read before sending it?
Who said anything about the west bank? You need to stay on target mate.
Heres the relevant excerpt:
Hamas’s political leadership has resided in Doha, Qatar, since 2012, in an arrangement supported by the United States. In 2024, Hamas explored moving its political headquarters to another country, such as Oman, amidst pressure from the United States and Israel over Qatar’s failure to use its leverage with Hamas to facilitate a ceasefire deal to the Gaza war.
The previous chairman, Yahya Sinwar, led Hamas from Gaza Strip, Palestine, since he also led the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip. Sinwar was the first chairman of Hamas Political Bureau to reside in Gaza Strip, doing so while the Gaza war was ongoing. The chairman of Hamas Political Bureau usually lived outside the Gaza Strip, due to the security reasons.
So according to this, the current leadership resides in Qatar (which is outside of the Gaza Strip and the west bank). Furthermore, Yahya Sinwar is the first head Hamas terrorists to reside in the Gaza Strip. So in the past and future Hamas was and still is not all in The Gaza Strip.
That’s step 2
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Ok Zionist
The boycotting countries should stay in and sing about how israeli’s are genocidal murderers.
Political songs are not allowed
Except for all those times when Israel made songs about heroically blowing up children
Can you name any examples of that?
all art is political. making non political art is just slop production.
Ah yes, Israel, the European
countrysettler colonialist state.The main sponsor of the show, Moroccanoil, is an Israeli company. This was obvious.
Moroccan Oil is an Israeli company?
Yeah they make hair products.
If only Israelis had the capacity to feel shame
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This is antisemitism. Don’t do it, don’t upvote it, don’t spread it. Israeli ethnonationalism is not reducible to the Jewish religion. There is nothing in Judaism that deterministically leads to apartheid and genocide. Many Jews see the “chosen people” story as an intergenerational responsibility to unfuck the world (Tikkun Olam). Many Jews are antizionists precisely because of their Judaism.
But it’s also the central conceit of Zionism. Things can be more than one thing at the same time.
There is nothing unique about Zionism in how it weaponizes religion. Same as “Christian nationalism” in the US, like Hindutva in India, like all kinds of Islamism, like Francoism or like any other clerical fascism. We should be better than to accept the weaponized forms of religions. Unless you consider something as silly as “Mohammed was a pedophile” as a useful counter to Daesh, which is terminally unserious.
Can’t we just hate all religion equally?
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WTF are you talking about. It is of course possible to be antisemitic towards Zionists.
And the «semitic» argument is bullshit, it is basically rehashing 19th century white supremacist pseudoscientific racism. The term is currently basically only used to describe language families similar to the term «indo-european».
The word antisemitism has a precise meaning: the «discrimination, prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as Jews (or Jewish institutions as Jewish).»
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The problem with this statement is both outlooks are true. Some jews see the chosen people story as an intergenerational responsibility to unfuck the world. While others see it as inheriting the world and all that is on it.
even though the theology of it is a lot more like “that is your god, and you belong to his people. it’s a lot of responsibility, he throws tantrums a lot”
I understand that about half do. Unfortunately, like the US, they aren’t the half that count
82% of them are happy to expel all Gaza’s Palestinian residents, that doesn’t sound like people who experience shame for their governmeng killing ~40k civilian women and children over the last few years.
A further 56% favour expelling all Israeli citizens with Palestinian bloodlines and a lovely 47%…
agreed that “when conquering an enemy city, the Israel Defense Forces should act as the Israelites did in Jericho under Joshua’s command – killing all its inhabitants.” Sixty-five percent said they believed in the existence of a modern-day incarnation of Amalek, the Israelite biblical enemy whom God commanded to wipe out in Deuteronomy 25:19. Among those believers, 93 percent said the commandment to erase Amalek’s memory remains relevant today.
I’m not seeing much conscience or shame in those numbers.
Well - conscienc and shame are just emotions that make us adhere to social rules.
After a pogrom in the 13
thcentury the citicens of my city repented formally and build a church on the ground of the former Jewish quarter. They repented for having the Jews allowed to live in the city.It’s very probable that a good portion of the 93 percent of Jewish Israelis who agreed that the commandment to erase Amalek’s memory remains relevant today are indeed ashamed that they haven’t managed to erase the memory of Palastine yet.
If the comittment to genocide a neighbour is this deeply engrained in a culture I’m sort of desperate. All genocides I recall that were not (mostly) successfull were only stopped by external military intervention.
I’d like to know how Israelis as a whole respond to these questions, since this sounds like it surveyed only religious conservatives.
lived there a few years, not wanting apartheid is a fringe minority opinion that will likely get you beaten up if people hear you.
the “left” there just wants to return to when apartheid was invisible and they can kill palestinians slowly.
The nation was founded by and for religious extremists
No, it wasn’t founded by and for extremists. But extremists do seem to be the only group represented in Netanyahu’s
bid to stay out of prison(ahem) “government”Zionism is and always has been a terrorist movement
“Commissioned in March by Pennsylvania State University and conducted by Tamir Sorek for the Israeli polling firm Geocartography Knowledge Group, the survey polled a representative sample of 1,005 Jewish Israelis. It posed a series of “impolite” questions – topics typically avoided in mainstream Israeli polling – about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
My understanding is it’s way less than half
I hope more broadcasters drop out. Either it’ll force their hand to expel all genocidal nations or make Eurovision a joke and viewership crashes.
