The Dutch broadcast company AVROTROS has announced that it will boycott the 2026 edition of Eurovision if Israel is allowed to compete. The Netherlands is the fifth country to announce a planned boycott of the event, which is scheduled to be held in Vienna.“AVROTROS can no longer justify Israel’s participation in the current situation, given the ongoing and severe human suffering in Gaza,” the company said in a statement.
  • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia. Heck, Australia… If these are Europe, then so is Israel.

    That said, I don’t think we should exclude Israel from participating in Eurovision on a geographic basis. We should exclude them instead because they are an ethnofascist apartheid colony that’s committing genocide on its population.

    • python@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      They were also very clearly rigging the votes in the last Eurovision by having an online campaign aimed at making people vote for them (advertising like that is forbidden by Eurovision rules)