God promised them a song contest 3000 years ago, you heathens.
Probably different decisionmakers, but also not having a unified stance on Israel is kinda showing them as weak.
Dear god, just take some sanctions like you did with Russia.
Russia bad, bad, bad. Israel good. Where is the problem, Citizen?
You have right, I’m sorry. And according to the famous actor/comedian Jerry Seinfeld, supporters of Palestine are worse than the KKK supporters.
I’m already trying to use AI to replace Jerry with Bassem Youssef’s face in Seinfeld episodes.
There are already sanctions (violent settlers got their asset frozen, and are forbidden to fly to many countries). Problem is that they take that as a badge of honor, and they don’t have enough outside assets to really be a problem to them.
We are asking to sanctions israel not just settler. Isrsel built thise settlements to begin with, thrn they armed the settlers than they protected them when they attack westbanker
Hunting the peasants instead of their bosses is on the same level as the Eurovision blockade to me.
So that’s how many members already?
-4-5?-Spain
-Ireland
-Slovenia
-Netherlands
-IcelandHope there will be more.
Add Iceland to the list too
I feel ashamed that my country is not on this list.
Same, with even our ministry of the sports that said that “the Gaza operation is not as aggressive, not as bloody as the Russian invasion of Ukraine to justify banning Israel from the Olympics”. WTF did you smoke?
As an Australian, same here.
That said its bemused me as to why we’re even there.
I was told the show is very popular in Australia, is that true?
I don’t really mind the contestants outside Europe, I think it’s pretty cool they invited Australia if Australians are indeed fans of the show.
it might still come to consider it, don’t give up hope, yet.
Countries are finally speaking up about this, I’ve been waiting for like, 2 years already.
Israel has undeniably brought the contest into disrepute twice in a row with them sending basically political entries with shady ad campaigns that made a select few voters disproportionately vote for Israel, causing them to spike up in the ranking (almost winning the 2025 contest; JJ is our savior), and yet the EBU just doesn’t even care about this? And when Russia did the whole “let’s take all of Ukraine” move, it took 10 countries to immediately speak up for them to get suspended. Ukraine won that year btw. Like… if the EBU are gonna keep saying the Eurovision Song Contest is “apolitical”, then they have to accept the harsh reality that making your participants be countries immediately makes it otherwise. And this is not the exception, it’s the norm. Both the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup have had similar disrepute incidents in the past, most notably with apartheid South Africa.
Either way, if more countries drop out due to Israel’s continued participate, that could ultimately result in enough awareness for the EBU to finally kick them out for good. Otherwise, the only solution is the privatization of their broadcaster, which literally nobody wants.
Also the commentator in the Israeli live broadcast called every artist who had called the war a genocide an anti-Semite on live tv. Yeah if the EBU wants their contest to stay apolitical than they need to ban the Israeli broadcaster for the commentator’s toxic comments.
This year in 2025, they even made fun of the Armenians. I can’t remember exactly what they said, but it was definitely something along the lines of “I can’t believe we gave these guys a quarter in Jerusalem”
I have ultimately lost faith in these commentators. So much for being an “independent reporter”, EBU. I mean yeah, they’re facing the threat of privatization, but for now they’re public and state-owned, so there’s literally no excuses here.
And FIFA and the IOC are repeating the same errors in 2026 and 2028
I mentioned both their competitions in my comment.
As a Dutch person, I’m very glad we’ve made this decision. After reading about Ireland doing the same I didn’t think we would but I’m glad that we did and also that we’ve decided on this somewhat early instead of waiting to see what the “bigger” countries are doing like we usually do with these things.
They should really say that they will pull out of the show if israel and the zionists are allowed to sponsor the show through Moroccanoil and Estee Lauder.
THAT would hurt.
Oh we did? Fucking nice! Many people didn’t want to touch this, but I’m glad it went through anyway!
It very important to note that Israel is NOT part of Europe. It’s in the Middle East, which is in ASIA.
Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia. Heck, Australia… If these are Europe, then so is Israel.
That said, I don’t think we should exclude Israel from participating in Eurovision on a geographic basis. We should exclude them instead because they are an ethnofascist apartheid colony that’s committing genocide on its population.
They were also very clearly rigging the votes in the last Eurovision by having an online campaign aimed at making people vote for them (advertising like that is forbidden by Eurovision rules)
Right, why were they ever allowed to compete, just cause it’s a white country?
Because Eurovision doesn’t have “Must be a european country” as a rule
Instead the rule is: must be a member of the European Broadcasting Union, which is notably different from Europe or EU: some African countries are members too.
It’s because they’re part of the EBU (not sure why though, the E here also stands for European). I think that’s the actual qualification for entry.
The E in EBC is basically as relevant as the E in European Article Number (EAN) which are used globally.
Asiavision doesn’t have the same ratings tho
I wish my country was that smart.
Same :(
Good. We need more of this. Israel needs to be isolated as the pariah state it is.
Israel should go back to sound as the bad idea it is.
Nice. Go make a better one with Blackjack and Hookers (all genders).
both
They are the 6th biggest contributor, and Spain has considered doing similar and they’re one of the big five. It might actually change something since money will matter the most, and enough countries are dropping out that they may not have enough contestants to run the semi-finals. There’s rumours that Italy, Germany, and Britain may withdraw if Israel is kicked out though. Maybe we just won’t have a contest next year, and after the bullshit of the past two years I’m completely fine with that.
Italy’s songs are such shit with the exception of Måneskin, that I don’t think anyone would miss us.
I want to know what France does.
Am not a European but are other Middle Eastern countries allowed to compete? Why would Israel even be considered a part of this to begin with, it doesn’t quite make sense.
Has nothing to do with Europe or the EU. One of their broadcasters is simply in the EBU, so they’re allowed to participate.
I think Israel being in the European Broadcasting Union actually does have something do with Europe.
Surely it was a spontaneous development and not at all planned to whitewash Israeli fascism to a western audience
Israel is a European colony.
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Is this the plasic straw of diplomacy?
I guess they should just do nothing then. Why is this always the immediate response whenever anyone begins to do the right thing?
They need to do their obligations under international law . Stop cooperating with the terrorist state doing it’s final solution
https://slguardian.org/netherlands-signs-175-million-arms-deal-with-israeli-firm-elbit
https://paxforpeace.nl/news/military-cooperation-of-the-netherlands-with-israel-is-inappropriate
Would you say the same thing if during the holocust countries has some same weak response to a compaign of extermination?
