After trying and failing to steal Eurovision last year, Israel came back with a plan to rig the competition at the second attempt, but outrageously it was foiled by Austria. Israel wanted to take Eurovision like it was a house owned by Palestinians, but Austria had the audacity to win Israel’s prize and it did not even resort to cheating. Truly, this is the worst thing Austria has done since it gave the world Hitler.
Eurovision seemed to be going so well when organisers hid the fact everyone hates Israel by replacing boos with AI-generated cheers. You know those divorced men who can’t get a girlfriend so they hire someone to be their date? It was kind’a like that. Israel paid for a fake audience so it didn’t look like a massive loser.
Obviously, a fake audience wasn’t going to be enough to win, but Israel had other tricks up its sleeve. It was supposed to keep the next part of its plan secret, but the people who brag about their war crimes on TikTok aren’t the brightest bunch. Israelis couldn’t help boasting of their heroic efforts which involved using multiple credit cards to vote hundreds of times in different countries. Israel has demanded an investigation into how Austria won, even though Israel cheated.
I don’t think it’s that hard to understand, it was just the combined Jewish and right winger (Zionist) vote. Clearly a lot of people chose to vote based on politics and current events, as they have done in the past.
Jews don’t vote as a bloc to support Israel in Eurovision. Isn’t it much more reasonable to consider that people who are opposed to Israel’s actions are boycotting Eurovision, leaving a core audience generally more in favor of Israel?
I don’t see why it has to be one or the other. The votes for Israel were absolutely influenced by a Jewish bloc, though. Are you really that out of touch with current events that you think the global Jewish community wouldn’t rally behind a literal survivor of the October 7 attacks during a period where many of their own communities are under attack by anti-semites?
Antisemites are unfortunately not new for Jews, but that doesn’t mean they vote together. Especially given the things that Israel has justified in response to October 7, it’s not an automatic vote for a lot of European Jews.