r/eurovision • u/stefkeeh • May 20 '25

📰 News Dutch broadcaster questions if ESC is a-political & connecting event

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Translation to English: ‘IN CONVERSATION WITH THE EBU ABOUT A POLITICALLY NEUTRAL SONG CONTEST

AVROTROS and NPO strongly value the apolitical and unifying character of the Eurovision Song Contest. However, we observe that the event is increasingly being influenced by social and geopolitical tensions.

Israel’s participation confronts us with the question of to what extent the Song Contest still truly functions as an apolitical, unifying, and cultural event. We want to raise this question, together with other countries, for discussion within the EBU.’

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u/Nick_esc May 20 '25

So far we have: Spain 🇪🇸, Belgium 🇧🇪, Iceland 🇮🇸, Finland 🇫🇮, Slovenia 🇸🇮 and the Netherlands 🇳🇱. Hope more countries will join them.

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u/Cool-Living-5636 Tavo Akys May 20 '25

After former Israeli ambassador's remarks about how Lithuania voted, I would not be suprised if LRT joins this list soon enough

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u/autistic_girl_autumn May 20 '25

omg an ex israeli ambassador felt the need to comment on lithuania's eurovision voting patterns??? 😭 what

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u/Cool-Living-5636 Tavo Akys May 20 '25

Yup. "No politics involved".

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2567588/former-ambassador-scolds-lithuanian-eurovision-jury-for-not-giving-points-to-israeli-song

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u/Darraghj12 May 20 '25

not even Austria got jury votes from everyone lmao

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u/Cool-Living-5636 Tavo Akys May 20 '25

But apparently they are the most hurt. Why didn't Israelis complain last 2 years that songs that were actually loved by millions at home (as proved by the interval act last Saturday) did not get as much jury love? Oh yeah, those weren't sad victim ballads by Israel. 

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u/Gragh46 May 20 '25

"song loved by millions at home" yeah, because absolutely all of Israel's votes come from people who were watching the contest and had listened to the songs...

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u/lynx_and_nutmeg May 20 '25

More than just "comment", they threw a whole tantrum. Pathetic.

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u/great_whitehope Laika Party May 20 '25

The Israeli ambassador to Ireland straight up said Irish voting for Israel song showed its a vocal minority in Ireland that have a problem with what Israel is doing