The Eurovision Israel hypocrisy that nobody is talking about.
KernowDamo
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14,794 views May 12, 2024 UNITED KINGDOM
Whilst Eurovision claims to always be apolitical, the scandal & unspoken hypocrisy surrounding Israel's contestant says otherwise.
Right, so whilst Israeli settlers were busy destroying olive groves in the occupied Palestinian Territory of the West Bank, well away from Gaza, demonstrating what the genocidal apartheid regime is really all about, the final of the Eurovision Song Contest was going on and of course it has been an absolute embarrassment of how badly the organisers of the song contest, the European Broadcasting Union, the EBU have fallen over themselves to accommodate Israel, to basically do for them, what they did for Ukraine previously, ignoring the genocide they are meting out in Gaza doing exactly what the Israel Lobby would want them to do, basically flashing up Israel’s self declared victimhood up in neon lights.
And you might be thinking Damo, why are you covering what is ostensibly supposed to be a night of ridiculous entertainment, an escape from all things political, then I’m afraid to say despite how you might consider the contest and how you might believe it to not be political and certainly they do claim that themselves, but it never has been. Voting so often goes along the lines of political alliances, but if you thought just the fact that Israel have been admitted and ardently defended by the program makers was the big story, was the main political point being made, if still being denied, that the singer Israel had put up was being booed and that garnered more sympathy, certainly amongst Zionists I daresay, then there’s another point, that I haven’t seen widely talked about, which is definitely worth raising, because it blows every single claim by Eurovision to be outside of politics, clean out of the water.
Right, so last night was the final of Eurovision and normally I’m not above indulging in the mad cheesefest that it is, it can be a bit of fun, it can be a bit of escapism, but it isn’t apolitical and it never has been and this years, which I of course boycotted like so many others did on the grounds the Israeli state had been allowed to perform thanks to the EBU, the European Broadcasting Union, despite the genocide they are meting out in Gaza, was hypocrisy writ large, because of course, when the show was all about Ukraine previously, those attacking Ukraine, Russia and their antidemocratic dictatorship neighbours Belarus were banned from taking part in the song contest in solidarity with Ukraine. Now, you can be for or against or take a somewhat neutral stance on this however you like as the EBU claim they are, I’ve certainly covered the conflict in my own content previously and I’ve always taken the view that the Russia Ukraine conflict is a somewhat grey area, there’s no good vs evil really, because on one hand you have Russia invading another country, which can never be supported, war is never the answer, yet there’s also no denying he was provoked to an extent by NATO expansionism eastwards, something that was promised to Russia back in the day wouldn’t happen, if they assented to the Berlin Wall coming down. It still happened, NATO poked the bear if you like.
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