A country full of Europeans changes their surnames to sound Middle Eastern and wants to participate in a European song contest. Right. The solution is easy: Israel, all you have to do is head back to Europe where you're actually from and stop playing 'let's pretend'.
You all appear to have dual citizenship, so what's the problem? Take your arses back home; then you can sing your little murderous hearts out as much as you want, you irritating f**ks.
It genuinely feels like you got sent the EBU’s internal Eurovision memo by accident and just added jokes and a functioning moral compass. You have basically explained that “non political” now means: ban the unfashionable invasion, platform the approved one, and trust the BBC to call it inclusion as long as the airstrikes hit their cues. Somewhere in EBU HQ there is a man in a headset doing a live risk assessment titled “Which military PR campaign gets the confetti cannon this year”.
The whole thing reads like a training manual for how to turn a war into Saturday night entertainment. Ban Russia, rebrand Israel, hand Graham Norton a list of things he is not allowed to notice and tell the audience it is all about unity. By 2026 I fully expect them to skip the televote and let NATO pick the winner in a side room with pastries.
Your piece basically proves Eurovision has stopped being a song contest and become a glossy annual performance review for which atrocities we are supposed to clap along to. Eurovision 2025, twelve points to “nice drone, shame about the civilians”.
It will be so pleasing to once again listen to Israeli music which isn’t one thing mind you — but it leans heavily on: identity, conflict, longing, cultural fusion, and celebration of identity, conflict, longing, and cultural fusion.
The emotional range is wide because the society itself is so utterly complicated but they are currently focused on genocide so there’s that cultural aspect to look forward to with bated breath.
Eurovision calling itself non political is like a fox insisting the henhouse is a wellness retreat. Everyone knows what is happening. Everyone sees the threat behind the “inclusive” smile. They just hope no one says it out loud.
What you wrote lands because the absurdity is already doing half the work. When institutions pretend neutrality while making choices soaked in geopolitics, satire becomes the only honest language left.
Why didn't the EBU invite Palastine, a State now correctly recognised by many other States, to take part and exclude illegal Israel?
Why? Because Palestine is in West Asia and Israel is in East Europe.
Why no Palestine? Maybe they were worried of equipment exploding on live TV?
It’s disgraceful that Israel is allowed to compete especially now, but also why at all as it’s not a European country!
And their "music" sucks.
Boycott euro-genocidal-vision
A country full of Europeans changes their surnames to sound Middle Eastern and wants to participate in a European song contest. Right. The solution is easy: Israel, all you have to do is head back to Europe where you're actually from and stop playing 'let's pretend'.
You all appear to have dual citizenship, so what's the problem? Take your arses back home; then you can sing your little murderous hearts out as much as you want, you irritating f**ks.
All and any international competition is silly. Yahweh has proclaimed there is only one global winner and that is Israel. Anyone for Sollitaire?
Don't you mean the I$ra€£ivision $ong Contest??
It genuinely feels like you got sent the EBU’s internal Eurovision memo by accident and just added jokes and a functioning moral compass. You have basically explained that “non political” now means: ban the unfashionable invasion, platform the approved one, and trust the BBC to call it inclusion as long as the airstrikes hit their cues. Somewhere in EBU HQ there is a man in a headset doing a live risk assessment titled “Which military PR campaign gets the confetti cannon this year”.
The whole thing reads like a training manual for how to turn a war into Saturday night entertainment. Ban Russia, rebrand Israel, hand Graham Norton a list of things he is not allowed to notice and tell the audience it is all about unity. By 2026 I fully expect them to skip the televote and let NATO pick the winner in a side room with pastries.
Your piece basically proves Eurovision has stopped being a song contest and become a glossy annual performance review for which atrocities we are supposed to clap along to. Eurovision 2025, twelve points to “nice drone, shame about the civilians”.
Thank you for your reflection on this - I won’t be watching Eurovision this time for moral reasons
I never watch it..for taste reasons.
Great piece today Laura! Thanks. Will spread the word xxx
They should rename EuroVision to IsnotrealBlindness
Calling it a country is like calling a hook worm a pet. Its a genocidal European squat illegally on Palestinian soil.
Insanely funny. Love this!
It's an odd thing, but I never watch that extremely boring programme anyway.
It will be so pleasing to once again listen to Israeli music which isn’t one thing mind you — but it leans heavily on: identity, conflict, longing, cultural fusion, and celebration of identity, conflict, longing, and cultural fusion.
The emotional range is wide because the society itself is so utterly complicated but they are currently focused on genocide so there’s that cultural aspect to look forward to with bated breath.
The Devil IsRael. The Antichrist.
Eurovision calling itself non political is like a fox insisting the henhouse is a wellness retreat. Everyone knows what is happening. Everyone sees the threat behind the “inclusive” smile. They just hope no one says it out loud.
What you wrote lands because the absurdity is already doing half the work. When institutions pretend neutrality while making choices soaked in geopolitics, satire becomes the only honest language left.