As every country shold.

At least someone has a backbone.

The rare double pullout

What a shithole country.

........Israel, I mean, of course. Rock on, Netherlands!

Thanks, Netherlands, to have the guts my country lacks!

Glorious. Don’t see it happening here.

The Dutch officials tried but they could not get the workers to do the broadcasting work. Everyone said no.

If only my country could do the same, but I guess we’re almost married with Israel at this point.

This is quite ironic. The first post I see about Eurovision on Lemmy is about boycotting it. 🤭

Nor will I. I'm watching the national finals, and taking the opportunity to watch older contests for the first time.

Good to see artists who stand for something. I won't be watching.

Fuck the Eurovision Song Contest and fuck that act. I‘m not afraid to say it, are you?

You’re supposed to put parentheses around the name.

Y’know. So people will know.

Nemo is the most unworthy winner of this century. McGettigan is trying to get some streams of people curious to remember what he sang at the time. These actions are about themselves, not Gaza. No one in Gaza cares about the Eurovision, they have bigger problems in hand...

All this Eurovision debate is a great distraction from the real issues at play there. But keep the circus guys, it's working wonderfully.. /s

No wonder Israel insists on participating, all this free distractions are priceless. And the only risk is the implosion of a music contest. Obviously no one suggested boycotting the world cup for instance.. That's not a boycott people are willing to do.

I am an expert. I have 12 PHDs in Eurovision.

We'll make do with JaJa Ding Dong.

That Sigrit would have ended up singing something new and getting them disqualified.

They really should have entered Volcano Man

I suspect you're right. I don't see how it wouldn't be painfully obvious and awkward if they didn't say something?

But I know they won't.

No way are they addressing this during the show. They know that can only make them look worse and prompt people to click away. The hosting is always light hearted and (bad) jokey, not a time they want to be delivering sincere defenses.

It really felt like this was Fire Saga's year, too.

I feel like one of The Big Five boycotting is a significant difference, but I'm not an expert.

Why? A number of countries choosing not to participate has happened in a lot of Eurovision years. Yes, this year is unusual because they are all not participating for the same reason, but thats the only difference

If they do, it's just going to be some pablum about how Eurovision is about music bringing people together with allusions to it being bigoted to be against a fascist apartheid regime committing genocide with impunity 😮‍💨🤬

Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands okay.. but Iceland? That's gonna La La Ding Dong the whole community!