Artists and musicians in Sweden, Iceland and Finland had petitioned the European Broadcasting Union to exclude Israel over its atrocities in Gaza

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/14549883

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Artists and musicians in Sweden, Iceland and Finland had petitioned the European Broadcasting Union to exclude Israel over its atrocities in Gaza

Israel can compete in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, organisers confirmed on Thursday, again rejecting calls for it to be excluded over the Gaza war like Russia was after invading Ukraine.

On Wednesday, a group of 400 celebrities including British actress Helen Mirren, British singer Boy George and former Kiss frontman Gene Simmons published an open letter supporting Eurovision’s decision to maintain Israel’s participation.

The letter was issued in response to petitions calling for Israel to be kicked out of the world’s biggest live music event, which is being held in Malmo, Sweden, in May.

Approached by AFP, the European Broadcasting Union said it had conducted a review and decided late last year that Israel could participate in the kitsch annual pop extravaganza.

“The Eurovision Song Contest is a non-political music event and a competition between public service broadcasters who are members of the EBU. It is not a contest between governments,” EBU director general Noel Curran said, reiterating a statement made in January.

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  • Ysysel
    8·
    10 months ago

    Les célébrités qui se font très discrets mais décident de s’exprimer pour offrir leur support à Israël. C’est tellement bizarre.

    • TGhost@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      3·
      10 months ago

      Sur certains jeux videos en serveur “europe” tu avais les israeliens.
      Et la turquie en Asie.

      Vivement le futur.

          • TGhost@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
            4·
            10 months ago

            ah mais je dis pas.

            Mais en attendant, ca montre des choses quand meme, et egalement pourquoi on soutient israel.
            Un gros cable c’est couteux, on va pas nier un investissement pour la vie de quelques “parasites”.
            Et puis les cables pour le maghreb etaient la aussi et pourtant pas consideres comme en Europe meme si plus proche.

            Le monde est binarisé

    • TGhost@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      Je pense pas qu’il yai un gros attrait,
      Apres c’est interessant de voir l’eurovision (pas en live, mais du resume sur levenement, ou ce genre darticles), pour comprendre un peu les geopolitiques europeennes aussi. Les messages diffuses.

      Je ne peux mempecher de voir ce programme en mode “1984” (comme beaucoup de choses), genre on diffuse nos valeurs et pensee de lannee, dans cette emission.
      Tiens le gueu.

      Mais il est clair que ce media de communication est useless,

  • DeftHani
    3·
    10 months ago

    Donc, on fait pas de politique chez l’UER ? C’était quoi alors cette interdiction pour la Russie de participer suite à l’invasion de l’Ukraine ? Et puis, c’est pas non plus comme si il y avait eu autant de victimes civiles en 5 mois à Gaza qu’en 2 ans en Ukraine hein…