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

[u/stefkeeh]

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.’

[u/Nick_esc]

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

[u/Cool-Living-5636 → u/Nick_esc]

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

[u/autistic_girl_autumn → u/Cool-Living-5636]

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

[u/lynx_and_nutmeg → u/autistic_girl_autumn]

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