[Zealotux]

The israeli ambassador in France should already have been kicked out a while ago for a myriad of reasons, I'm ashamed my country is so spineless.

[karmakurtisaani]

Europeans couldn't even get Israel out of a silly pop song contest, so it seems a bit hopeless to expect any actual political action.

[chadgpt3]

Israel literally owns that contest. By what reasoning could the EU force the owner of a silly song contest to exclude their own country?

[bflesch]

I'm pretty sure religious fundamentalists from all beliefs would love to get rid of Eurovision song contest. Excluding Israeli citizens from it hurts their moderates more than it hurts the hardliners.

Ask Donald Epstein how they chose locations for Miss Universe during cold war times. They'd never exclude the countries they wanted to ideologically reform.

[coldtea]

>Excluding Israeli citizens from it hurts their moderates more than it hurts the hardliners.

Nah, it hurts their public image and thus hardliners. Like similar actions against South Africa did.

[ifwinterco]

Whatever their rhetoric they desperately crave respectability, making Israel a pariah state à la 1980s South Africa would hurt them badly.

Why else are they even trying to be in Eurovision and UEFA in the first place

[vkou]

Rogue states will attack Western democracy. It's a tale as old as... Well, actually, in the past few years, this one has done more on that front than all the others combined.