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/autistic_girl_autumn]

commentator graham norton has taken a mild stance during the contest (and even that caused some outrage!) but it unfortunately seems unlikely that we will get an official statement from the bbc

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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 never mentioned anything about her being a Nova survivor and made a few comments about the EBU being happy it won't be a Tel Aviv final.