Screw you Israel! Even with your coordinated global voting you couldn’t win! Austria’s singer deserved it, great vocals!
Holy fuck there needs to be a reckoning at EBU. They can’t keep turning a blind eye to this. You expect me to believe the Irish public honestly gave 10 points to Israel? That being said JJ absolutely deserved the win. Thank you juries (again)
I am so god damn happy. A well deserved win!
Yes, JJ did a great job. I’ve never seen him sing badly.
Literally 10 seconds, or one jury vote, away from a non European country, that triumphs non European values (religion = state) winning a “European” competition.
Wowsa…
They need to remove Isreal, Australia etc pronto!
How do you calculate 1 jury vote? In the end they had 79 points to Austria
Despite that, it’s an event of the EBU which is only loosely related to Europe’s borders.
I think you might be forgetting this is a made up singing competition with no real value or consequences of any kind.
But quick, remove Australia pronto!
Indeed, the EBU needs to reevaluate its partners. It’s fine that non european countries like to watch the ESC, but participate in it? I dunno. Feels wrong.
What coordinated voting ? They definitely got way more points from televote than I expected, but she did perform well.
I know that they did - same as last year - massive state funded information campaigns online just to gain votes for themselves. Regardless of song or anything, this is a state actively using eurovision for their political goals, which is not allowed.
Sadly as I’m going to sleep I can only provide you a source that I have saved, which is in Finnish: https://yle.fi/a/74-20162154 (finnish national broadcasting company)
I hope someone chimes in with english source while I sleep.
I just know from personal experience (also in Finland) that the advertising on Youtube has been significant. I don’t remember ever seeing an ad for a ESC song, right there among the phone/service provider, furniture store, food and whatever ads. This time it was all the time, and always just Israel. It was jarringly propaganda. My friend who was over for the watch party commented that she kept getting “an ad for some song” too, and recognized the performer, and she isn’t even an Eurovision fan.
Edit: Also think I’ll be joining the boycott next year. Maybe take a look at the semifinal songs, but this “is this the year the country doing a genocide manages to pay themselves to victory, or which of these contestants might stop it” takes all the fun out of it.
Edit2: Also much congratulations to JJ! It was certainly of the most memorable shows and countertenors are amazing. (Though “opera pop” isn’t my genre, and sounded like he still has a ways to go to make it sound effortless.)
There seem to be very few trustable sources in English. The only thing I found with any worth was this Reddit thread.
I translated that page automatically. Thank you for the credible link.
Wow, is that allowed, or common? It doesn’t feel acceptable. I’d not heard of it in this case or in general before.
I think nobody has ever cared enough to do it. Plus they pay so much money to the organizers, that no action will every be taken against them.
However Isreal went on after that to claim that because they got so many “audience votes” from all of Europe, that Europe supports their genocide of Palestinians.
That makes sense.
Gross.
With the multitude of Palestine flags in attendance and the booing, it should be clear that public opinion is more mixed than for any other artist.
she did not and her stage show was sloppy
