Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands will boycott next year’s Eurovision after Israel was given the all-clear to compete in the 2026 song contest despite calls by several participating broadcasters for its exclusion over the war in Gaza.
No vote on Israel’s participation was held on Thursday at the general assembly of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the body that organises the hugely popular international annual singing competition.
Instead, participating broadcasters voted only to introduce new rules designed to stop governments and third parties from disproportionately promoting songs to influence voters.
there should be more and i suspect this lack is indicative of mainstream sentiment about this topic.
Support to boycott it is actually fairly big but the political lobby gets in the way. Israel has a massive grip on Europe. The Netherlands is a bit of a surprise in this lineup, they are pretty strongly infiltrated by Israel. Guess they didn’t appreciate what Israel did to Joost Klein.
