what was done to them.

Israel is not governed by holocaust survivors. They just like to pretend it is in order to use misplaced sympathy as a "get away with anything" card

Well, 11 out of 37 total Eurovision participants are under threat of direct russian attack in the future, two of which already attacked and under occupation i.e. Georgia and Ukraine, so you'd ignore that at your own risk. Most eurovision countries have greater (urgent) self-interest in grounding russia before doing the same with israel, but I wouldn't say it is impossible, especially as genocide bibi starts to blame everyone for every stupid thing he does and diplomatic relations deteriorate.

It's technically not countries participating, but broadcasters and they need to be independent of state control. The russian broadcasters were not kicked out for the russian invasion of Ukraine, but for being state controlled. They were accused of this for a long time and the invasion was the final straw.

That's right, you're making a point. Now, though, people in the comments will explain to you why you're wrong...

How much money an obscure cosmetics company (never heard before today, from the name I assumed it was something like Saudi Aramco) is paying that they can't find another sponsor that pays the same or even more?

Being a popularity contest is not a problem. It’s always been like that, it’s “whatever”. Like it, don’t like. Doesn’t matter.

But Israel manipulating votes to “artwash” genocide is a whole different bag of cats, and very wrong.

When countries vote for their neighbour, that is usually not enough to change the end result. The most popular song usually still wins. But Israel is assembling political votes all across Europe. Only a few percent of the voters need to be rallied to completely overtake the public votes. Also considering that Israel supporters are motivated to vote 20 times, people voting for their favorite song will likely only vote a few times, if at all.

Yes, Eurovision has always been political to some degree, but it hasn't really swayed the results this much ever before.

Its gotten worse for every year

It's so hard to voice this opinion online. Both are the bad guys and really fucking bad ones at that. Clear as day.

Yeah, it was also clearly political before, like Ukraine's win tbh

Israel had every right to fight back

Maybe after a third year of Livestreamed genocide people will stop saying this stupid shit.

7.10 was the armed resistance of a colonial concentration camp broke out and attacked the fascist ethno supremacist state in an act of SELF DEFENSE. You can condemn individual acts of violence, but Israel is the aggressor and history doesn't begin on 7 October.

Exactly. Fraud is not necessary to explain this result.

It's sad but most people just don't care. They will go to Qatar to watch football at stadiums built using slave labor and they will go to a song contest with Israel in it. As long as tickets are selling nothing will change.

Cool disinformation.

Any country is allowed if they are full members of the European Broadcasting Union or paid 'associate Members' that are invited to compete by the EBU.

Lebanon is absolutely allowed - as are any EBU full members. However their national broadcaster has declined to join the contest due to their own laws prohibiting the transmission of any Israeli content, and their concerns of this being impossible with Israel being members of the competition.

Turkey has been part of Eurovision over 30 times and even won and hosted the competion in 2004. They withdrew in 2013 citing criticisms with the rules of the competition and have not competed since - their government's choice, so blame Erdogan.

Australia participates in Eurovision