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Israel in Eurovision Song Contest

Posted by Scrabb <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=scrabb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 7, 2024, 8:55 pm

Prognostications?

Re: Israel in Eurovision Song Contest

Posted by Mark Doran <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Mark+Doran+66' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 7, 2024, 9:05 pm, in reply to "Israel in Eurovision Song Contest"

As always, Israel will win with "Boom Bang-a-Bang"...

M.

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Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 7, 2024, 9:22 pm, in reply to "Re: Israel in Eurovision Song Contest"

Puppet On A String?

Re: Israel in Eurovision Song Contest

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 7, 2024, 9:29 pm, in reply to "Re: Israel in Eurovision Song Contest"

Any kind of protest will be ruthlessly stamped out but someone always tries to go rogue; sudden cut away and mutes probably the order of the day.

Hopefully some protest voting with plenty of "Israel, nul points". Any booing will be filtered out presumably.

...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Palestinian flags banned, of course

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 7, 2024, 9:34 pm, in reply to "Re: Israel in Eurovision Song Contest"

https://twitter.com/think_or_swim/status/1787755092545802598

...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Eurovision organisers’ ‘regret’ after opening act wears pro-Palestinian symbol

Posted by johnlilburne <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=johnlilburne' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 7, 2024, 10:59 pm, in reply to "Palestinian flags banned, of course"

Former Swedish Eurovision contestant Eric Saade was not competing and had the keffiyeh symbol, commonly used by people who want to show they are pro-Palestinian, on his arm on Tuesday as he performed his 2011 entry Popular.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/eurovision-organisers-regret-opening-act-202112307.html

https://twitter.com/IsrBreaksRules/status/1787952355914510817

Re: Eurovision organisers’ ‘regret’ after opening act wears pro-Palestinian symbol

Posted by johnlilburne <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=johnlilburne' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 7, 2024, 11:03 pm, in reply to "Eurovision organisers’ ‘regret’ after opening act wears pro-Palestinian symbol"

Hope there's more of this - especially from the British entrant.

Non-political my arse.

Re: Eurovision organisers’ ‘regret’ after opening act wears pro-Palestinian symbol

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 7, 2024, 11:13 pm, in reply to "Re: Eurovision organisers’ ‘regret’ after opening act wears pro-Palestinian symbol"

Nice one. Let's see how it plays out. There could be some pushback of note, it is hoped.

Re: Israel in Eurovision Song Contest

Posted by scrabb <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=scrabb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 7, 2024, 9:41 pm, in reply to "Re: Israel in Eurovision Song Contest"

Have to say, Rask, I think this is a completely new ball game. We can't go off past lukewarm "protests" of a political nature as a guide. The feeling is too high, too febrile , too angry this time, and with the atrocities a daily, hourly, occurrence.

How many countries will withdraw in protest (as writers did for the PEN America literary awards recently, which then had to be cancelled.) Wouldn't it be terrific if out of the 38+ entrants we were left with fewer than ten in the final -- those nations complicit/supportive of Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Re: Israel in Eurovision Song Contest

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 7, 2024, 10:37 pm, in reply to "Re: Israel in Eurovision Song Contest"

I hope you are right; the scenario you describe hadn't occurred to me. I was thinking of dissent v production/TV/broadcasters and I'm sure this will have been top of the agenda on their meetings.

Standing silently, refusing to sing would be a protest they couldn't stop. There seems to be plenty of boycott talk on Twitter too so hopefully nobody watches (not that I ever would).

...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Re: Israel in Eurovision Song Contest

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 7, 2024, 10:39 pm, in reply to "Re: Israel in Eurovision Song Contest"

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