It should not even be able to participate, its in fucking asia.

Who knew music fans were rabid antisemites! The world is in the shitter you mean /s

Israel was always disliked in the community, but most members are too spineless to boycott their gay glitter show over a genocide. They will complain all the time but won’t do anything about it. Imo all artists that are participating should be ashamed to work with the hypocritical genocide defending organisation that is the EBU.

its because of the European broadcasting network they share. Morocco and Lebanon have been past contestants.

Same reason why Australia is in

The ideology of the ruling class is racialized and they have no illusions about what that means, the idea that geographic logic would hold any sway over them would make them laugh, if pressed plenty of them with admit Israel is a “civilized” European outpost in “a sea of barbarism”

Of course it doesn’t stop zionists from making mangled nonsensical claims about indigeneity, the point is to disconcert and confuse their enemies

“October rain” refers to the countless bombs raining down on Palistinians.

“Hurricane.”

Al Aqsa flood 💯💯💯💯💯

Lol when even EBU is (marginally but still) on the right side of history, you know the hasbara is fucked up.

They had a copium article in the Swedish press the other day whereas the headline asked something along the lines “why is Israel allowed, but not Russia?” and the answer was basically some bullshit that Russian public service didn’t fulfill some criteria and this has definitely nothing to do with politics, as they kept reminding you that “Eurovision is not about politics!”.

And here is at the airport, a perfect emoji :xi-wave:

It’s astonishing how shitty they’ve managed this. They could have just… um… not done pogroms against children in a concentration camp, but I guess the fascist blood lust and death drive is too powerful to tame. Not even the most “both sides” brained lib hidden behind 7 layers of carefully curated media obfuscation can ignore the dread they feel knowing children are buried alive in the rubble.

or in case you don’t want to deal with tiktoks deeply annoying webbrowser UI (thanks comrade)

Will made a good point in the latest chapo ep. The frothing support for Isn’treal by the west is the wet dream of every anti-semite. If you do not know the ins and outs of Imperialism, you really are lead to believe that Israel, and by western definition jews, control the west.

Ireland’s contestant was already ordered to change their Gaelic “Free Palestine” body paint after the semifinal.

They would be if Israel had some restraint but they decided to do a full blown ethnic cleansing which at some point becomes hard to overlook. The one and only time I watched Eurovision it was held in Tel Aviv and I remember that there was only one instance of protestation against them where a participant band displayed an anti-Israel banner. Apart from that people didn’t mind much.

I can only speak for the LGBTQIA+ crowd, but … i mean, let’s face it, that is the core audience. And there’s a pretty clear split between the Queers for Palestine faction and the homonationalists, and it looks as if the latter are finally losing. This is in large parts due to queer solidarity for Palestine having already been clearly articulated way before the invasion of Gaza went underway, and calls for boycotts and an exclusion of Israel coming from that very crowd beginning as soon as the war started. What’s discussed itt didn’t come out of nowhere, it’s been boiling up for half a year, and resting on foundations much older than that.