Despite Eurovision’s denials, an analysis reveals that the broadcast silenced crowd discontent during Israeli singer Eden Golan’s performance.
Despite Eurovision’s denials, an analysis reveals that the broadcast silenced crowd discontent during Israeli singer Eden Golan’s performance.
13 countries, yes 13, gave 12 points to Israel in their televote. Spain and Belgium among them when in the Spanish broadcasting the commentators mentioned the crimes of Israel in Gaza and the Belgium broadcaster cut the transmission during the Israeli performance to demonstrate against their participation in the contest. It’s obvious that for the last two years Israel has been rigging the televote (it’s pretty easy to do so buying SIM cards or VPN and paying to vote 20 times). Eurovision has always been political, but the EBU should really consider if it’s worth it to destroy their reputation just because their main sponsor is an Israeli company (Morrocanoil). It’s not just because they are pink-washing a country condemned by the ICC for war crimes while vetoing Russia, but rigging the televote also shadows the real televotes of the Eurofans and screws the whole voting process.
a stupid joke i have is that 2 televoted we’re changed from estonia to Israel
Or maybe people really liked the performance? If you are posting such theories, do you have any proof?
Eurovision votes have NEVER been that unanimous across the board
I mean Ukraine 2022, just after the war began. 439 points from the public, 192 jury, 631 in total. By comparison Israel this year got “only” 297 points from the public, 60 jury, 357 in total. Last 2 years Israel was also 2nd and 5ft on the public votes. Last year it even had more public points than this year with 323.
This show can be very political on contemporary events.
Note: country residents cannot vote for their own country. I think this is to prevent more populated countries from winning each time. Maybe Israel have some advantage in this system since we cannot vote against. If Palestine had a candidate, the Ukraine scenario was possible. But since it has no representation, vote “against” Israel are just dilutes all over.
Israel literally bought ads globally to advise people on how to vote for their entry in the finale.
Not a random marketing company or the artists label or even their public broadcasting company. The actual country.
Shady as fuuuuuuck
What really? First time I’m seeing this.