Despite Eurovision’s denials, an analysis reveals that the broadcast silenced crowd discontent during Israeli singer Eden Golan’s performance.
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Since I can’t pin @fluxx1@lemm.ee’s comment:
The article is new. However, it is about ESC 2024 rather than yesterday’s event.
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13 countries, yes 13, gave 12 points to Israel in their televote. Spain and Belgium among them when in the Spanish broadcasting the commentators mentioned the crimes of Israel in Gaza and the Belgium broadcaster cut the transmission during the Israeli performance to demonstrate against their participation in the contest. It’s obvious that for the last two years Israel has been rigging the televote (it’s pretty easy to do so buying SIM cards or VPN and paying to vote 20 times). Eurovision has always been political, but the EBU should really consider if it’s worth it to destroy their reputation just because their main sponsor is an Israeli company (Morrocanoil). It’s not just because they are pink-washing a country condemned by the ICC for war crimes while vetoing Russia, but rigging the televote also shadows the real televotes of the Eurofans and screws the whole voting process.
a stupid joke i have is that 2 televoted we’re changed from estonia to Israel
Or maybe people really liked the performance? If you are posting such theories, do you have any proof?
Eurovision votes have NEVER been that unanimous across the board
People never give their points neutrally in the televote, normally countries tend to give their vote to the same countries every year, and it’s not possible to distance Ukraine or Israel from their current geopolitical circumstances. So a mass televote to Israel, if it really was done by the eurofans of these countries, wouldn’t be made because they really liked the performance. Also, Israel has more than enough propagandistic reasons to want to win the contest: making as if Europe supports Israel even when it has been accused by the International Court for genocide, disenchant Palestinians and Palestine-supporters making them think they are alone supporting their cause, having the next contest held in Israel for further pink-washing… Furthermore, the televote was never fraud-proof, you can pay many times if you have different credit cards or payment methods, there isn’t any kind of biometrics involved, so you have to rely that people and institutions will have good will and won’t do any kind of rigging. https://fr.euronews.com/2025/05/16/eurovision-quelles-sont-alliances-les-plus-fortes-entre-pays
Eurovision is a farce anyways. There is no way Germans are dumb enough to vote crappy musicians that get last place every time.
I’ve heard that it’s because their selection process is dumb and dominated by a handful of out of touch “experts” and the public only votes in the finals.
That’s basically it.
A famous example was a few years back when Electric Callboy wasn’t even invited to the national finals for selecting the song because the selection committee knew they would win but “didn’t feel the song was fit for radio”
They don’t want to win because then they would be on the hook for hosting the event.
There is also a satirical song about Germany always getting 0 points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfnlkiPCVA
We should send Böhmermann next time with “Germany 0 Points”
Too late. The song has to release in the year of the event.
Hey, at least this year they didn’t get last place!
This article is about last year’s performance, not this year’s. Just FYI.
There was a great bit in the UK broadcast where Graham Norton gave the game away by saying “I don’t know what you can all hear at home. A very mixed response here in the arena” 😆
Big Graham gives zero fucks. Love it.
I missed Eurovision’s finale this year, because I watched the 803th Interstellar Song Contest
they censored the crowd during one small part of Malta’s song
