- cross-posted to:
- europe@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- europe@lemmy.ml
The Netherlands will not take part in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest following the decision by organiser EBU not to exclude Israel.
Public broadcasting company NPO said no other broadcaster will step in to send a Dutch entry after AvroTros’s withdrawal, although it will ensure the contest is still broadcast for Dutch viewers.
European public broadcasters met at the EBU headquarters in Geneva to discuss the future of Eurovision on Thursday. AvroTros, together with broadcasters from Ireland, Iceland, Spain and Slovenia, had argued that Israel’s public broadcaster should be barred because of the war in Gaza.
AvroTros also said the Israeli government had used the contest as a “political instrument”, pointing to a government-run promotional campaign for the country’s entry.
They aren’t for some reason. Them committing genocide seems to be the main reason that people like to boycott Israel, and i get those people, but i personally think the massive voter manipulation would be a much more sensible basis to exclude them. EBU has rules but are letting Israel get away with it. I wonder if it has something to do with where their biggest sponsors are from.
Another possibility is that the massive operation by Israel to get blackmail material on Western politicians doing things such as pedofilia also caught EBU members (or at least people who have power over said EBU members) on its net.
As the Epstein thing unravels more and more what we’re seeing is that holding a ton of blackmail material gathered by operations like that (and the whole Epstein affair clearly shows that a lot of it would be pedofilia-related) is the best explanation for Israel’s influence.