- cross-posted to:
- eurovision@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- eurovision@lemmy.world
The musician was seen wearing a keffiyeh on his arm, a symbol commonly used to show support for Palestine.
In reponse, a representative of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said in a statement: “All performers are made aware of the rules of the contest, and we regret that Eric Saade chose to compromise the non-political nature of the event.”
Despite facing criticism for its decision not to exclude Israel and worldwide protests condemning the organizers’ choice, the competition maintained its stance.
“Politics does influence the event from time to time,” said Paul Jordan, a contest enthusiast and researcher who was part of its communications team from 2015 to 2018, in an interview with CNN.
However, he noted, “the presence of Israel has become such a big issue (that) I think it’s going to overshadow the event.”
The news comes during Israel’s seizure and closure of the Rafah crossing in Gaza, which has raised concerns that already-scarce food and medical supplies will be further depleted and lead to a “catastrophic” humanitarian disaster.
Eurovision is and has always been political. They’re talking out of their asses. Also why the fuck is Israel in it? Australia I kinda get but those fucktard cultists over in Israel have built their whole identity on not being European.
At least Israel is part of the European Broadcasting Union, who’re doing the show, for historical reasons. Australia makes no sense.
What part of Australia doesn’t make sense? The vast majority of Australians are of European descent and it used to be a British colony.
It’s not about the European descent at all. Australia just loves the ESC that’s why they’re allowed to participate
So I guess we’re not free to wear what we want now…
When you say now do you mean they lthat the rules they have for good reason still exist?
What is new beside a rule that’s been broken before getting broken again?
I think their point is that it’s not a flag or something, which would obviously be political, but just a scarf. So they mean “Oh wow we’re not allowed to wear scarves anymore?”. Which is still a bit silly, as the political intention seems pretty apparent in this specific case.
Cultural Genocide vision.
Cultural? It’s a full on genocide.
Yes of course, but that is the physical Genocide of Palestinians in Palestine. Committed by israel and made possible by America, Germany, and Britain.
But now Europe as a whole is banning all traces of Palestinian culture outside of Palestine in their “song festival”.
This incident is noteworthy because does not involve the Palestinian flag. The Keffiyeh is pure Palestinian culture. Anything that has any connection to Palestine is now banned. Just think for a moment how Nazi this is. This is full on top tier CCP shit.
Palestine is literally not allowed to exist in any shape or form. Not only the people but their entire culture is now wiped out. So that after israel is done wiping out all Palestinians from Gaza nobody will remember who they even were despite all the Palestinians in other countries around the world still living.
If it wasn’t, it would be a gravel lot.
I read this dumb " if israel wanted to destroy Gaza all the houses would be rubble" meme for the last time a few months ago.
Now that almost every home has been destroyed I didn’t expect someone to be stupid enough to bring it up again.
Its true that 70 percent or so has been destroyed but not all. You’ll just have to ask hamas to rebuild homes instead of tunnels. My point stands that if Israel wanted it flat it would be scrub and rocks.
Broooo it’s just 70% lmaooo Like just 2 in 3 houses has been destroyed!!! That’s not 3 out of 3!
You’re right tough, if israel just flattens all of Gaza and destroys all but 1 house then nobody could say that israel tried to destroy everything. Because there would be 1 house standing!
I wonder why I didn’t think of that before.
Yes. It could have been much worse, and I am still not exaggerating, it’s you, eternally moving goal posts. It’s a terrible situation that your propaganda source loves fanning
"Guys please, can you just ignore the dead children for one minute? They’re already dead, it’s not like they care anyway.
We’re trying to make money here and your empathy for your fellow human beings is just mucking it all up. Please, please try to follow the apolitical rules we laid out and for the duration of the show and just stfu and give us money ok ? That’s all we want. Bring the money and leave your messy politics at home. Your complaining makes other people not want to give us more money.
Remember why we’re doing this. For culture and money. But mostly money. Thanks!"
Typical no win situation. Can’t pick a side without being criticised, can’t not pick a side for the same reason.
Only thing that both the Israeli government and Hamas can agree on is that the Palestinian people is expendable.
Can’t live your life sitting on the fence being friends with everyone. You gotta embrace your values and accept the consequences that some people will disdain you for it. If you can live with both the disdain and your consciousness, then you’ve picked the right place, i believe.
Fences are for birds.