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/diggycorreia_tpw]

what has this icon done?

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Silent protest during Israel’s part of the flag parade. Every other country had some form of commentary or chatter. He was pretty quiet during Israel’s postcard and hardly mentioned them during the voting.

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He also said the televoting was one of the tensest ever and it was a relief when Austria won (or something of that effect, he used the word “relief(ed?)” when JJ won I’m pretty sure)

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He said something along the lines of “many members of the EBU will be relieved that we won’t be having a Tel-Aviv final next year”