#ban israel from esc

[euroquision]

Big Ol' Eurovision UPDATE!

Oh hi lovely people of tumblr. Sorry the updates haven't been as consistent here as they have been on things like my instagram and TikTok. There's been a LOT of work and effort being done and there's some very exciting/promising developments to share!

First off, I wrote an open letter called the "Artists' Statement to the EBU" which is available for any and all Eurovosion/National Final artists to read and sign if they so choose. It asks the EBU to take action and remove Israel from the 2024 contest. AND! It already has a signature!

France's 2023 representative La Zarra has already gotten in touch with me and signed the letter. You can read the letter for yourself and La Zarra's comments HERE. There are already a handful of other artists who I've connected with that would want to sign the letter, so things are incredibly hopeful!

If you want to help spread the word, please consider reaching out to or commenting at your favorite ESC artists across social media and let them know this letter exists and they won't be alone in sharing their voice. Thank you to everyone who has already done so much to support this effort and spread the word <33333

[faelapis]

Don't Vote in Eurovision.

the 2nd semi is about to happen. israel is competing. i want to start by acknowledging something: i hope my fellow eurovision boycotters, protesters and general #BanIsraelfromEurovision people know it's not like. impossible for israel to win this year.

at eurovision, you only need a minority of televote to "win" televote, when there are 26 entries in the final. nobody wins with outright majority, they win by being the biggest minority.

if there's 10% dedicated zionist viewers who will vote for israel just because it's israel, that probably outweighs the points that a lot of other countries will get. if you divide 100/26, you get an average of 3.8%. if there's 10% dedicated zionists, i hope you see how that's suddenly a HUGE percentage. (of course, eurovision votes are not even. some songs get 0.2% of a country's vote, some songs get 20%. but the point stands. you don't need majority support to win.)

yes, this means that, theoretically, a country that supports palestine 90% could still give israel televote points - because of the united 10% voting for israel, while the 90% votes divided among the other entries. and you can't vote against songs in televote.

i side with the bookies that it's not LIKELY. we are very unlikely to see "ukraine 2022" level televote numbers for israel. europeans are much more divided on the apartheid colonial state. and many will vote just for "whichever song they like best."

i'm only saying that, IF israel were to get a huge televote score, it doesn't mean the "majority" of europe supports them. quite the opposite. it just means you can't vote against entries. you can be deeply unpopular and win.

i'm also saying this because, in the likely event that israel gets at least top 10, please dont let the zionists spread it as "proof" that europe is behind them. their apartheid colonial regime is bleeding support every day. most pro-palestine folks are boycotting.

this is a silly song contest. do not feel hopeless because of it.

instead, focus your attention on helping palestine and boycotting the contest. do NOT vote. that's giving the EBU money, which is a zionist organization willing to disgrace the contest to let israel use it as a propaganda platform. they don't deserve your money.

boycott eurovision. no watching, no voting.

donate to the world central kitchen, whose aid workers were murdered by israel while attempting to help palestinians.

[memesmunsigra]

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[witchescollection]

"why are israel in esc if they arent in europe" they're part of the ebu, the broadcasting company which makes eurovision. last time i checked australia wasn't in europe either babes

"i can't believe they banned the palestinian flag this week!" they've been banned since 2016, alongside any other flag of a 'disputed territory', anything containing a political message, and any local or regional flags.

listen, i'm not saying don't boycott, but what i am saying is if you're gonna call people horrendous insults and tell them to kill themselves because they aren't, you better at least have your fucking facts straight <3

[bunny-banana]

Here's a good video on how to boycott Eurovision by EuroQuision. Its quite education and well explained. I think its worth sharing around

[theyhavetakenovermylife]

Hey all my beautiful people💚 I'm currently in the middle of packing before moving into my first place of my own, but I'm trying to push in some writing time.

In the mean time, I stumbled across this video, and it got my blood boiling. I already has strong feelings about what happened in ESC this year, but this tipped over, so this is where my rant will start.

As you all me already know, I'm a MASIVE Eurovision fan, and what happened this year simply wasn't acceptable. I knew that there had been some problems out backstage, but I had no idea it was this bad.

One thing is to let Israel take part in Eurovision, but to then ignore every single claim of harassment from the Israeli delegation, not just from the press but from the artists themselves, is more than just outrages, but breaks the exact rules that Joost Klein was desqualifed over.

To learn that parts of the Israeli delegation straight up harassed Joost Klein, Bambie Thug, and several of the other acts, let alone the press, without EBU taking any actions, makes me so angry that I can't even describe it.

I love Joost Klein and the Netherlands. I have a lot of friends there and many good memories from there. So to hear that Joost Klein and the other delegations was harassed and filmed without permission, did not just shock me, but made me feel like someone had hurt some of my friends.

In EBU's strange attempt to keep Israel in the competition, they have not just ignored every single claim of harassment made against the Israeli delegation, but screwed over the other artists, the crowd, the press and the viewers.

The amount of rules the Israeli delegation has broken, without any actions from the EBU is disrespectful, to the point I would call it gross.

[jotunvali02]

FALASTINVISION - Nour Badra - F.T.R.T.T.S.

[euroquision]

HOW TO BOYCOTT EUROVISION

A few months of writing, rewriting, and editing all on my own has led to this:

Please share this as far and wide as you can. I know people feel hopeless but there's still so much to learn and do.

Free Palestine, then now and always.

[faelapis]

hi, can you tell me how did you contact them? 💕 https://www.tumblr.com/faelapis/742877457375444992/another-day-passed-another-day-i-contacted-the

hi! so. the israel-eurovision saga continues. this post has received some extra attention today, because of the news of the EBU approving israel's new song for eurovision.

we dont have to take this laying down. you can contact the broadcasters that make up the EBU. you can pressure them to protest israels inclusion at eurovision. you can say its unacceptable to allow a settler colonial state to participate in the midst of their ethnic cleansing campaign.

here is the contact list of all the collaborators who made israel's participation this year possible - through their inaction and silence. you can find contact info for every single broadcaster participating in this year's eurovision. it also includes ways to reach out to artists and sponsors of the event.

what's important is this: don't be silent in your eurovision boycott. be loud. be annoying. be as toxic as you've always been to randos on twitter for disliking your fave.

and now use that on every single broadcaster participating.

you don't have to be european, btw. nothing is stopping my american followers from flooding SVT (this year's host)s email with palestinian resistance and demands for israel's exclusion.

you can email SVT at kontakt@svt.se right now.

eurovision is the biggest music show in the world. israel is using it for propaganda. even the israeli president got in on it, saying how "important" it is that israel gets to represent itself on stage this year.

if you email these broadcasters, they might try to deflect by saying "the EBU decides which countries are allowed to participate." remind them that it was only because of broadcasters threatening to boycott that russia was banned from eurovision in 2022. they can protest again. we don't have to accept israel's propaganda song, or the EBU's fake neutrality.

[matan4il]

I'm gonna put it as simply and blatantly as possible.

Russia in 2022 attacked another Eurovision participant and made a whole bunch of other contestant countries scared of being attacked next, after already having attacked a fellow competitor in 2008 -> Russia got banned from Eurovision

Ukraine in 2022 got attacked, had its civilians targeted intentionally, did not choose to start the war, has no record of past attacks against ESC contestants, and is not currently posing a threat to any other Eurovision participating country -> Ukraine did not get banned

Israel in 2023 got attacked, had its civilians targeted intentionally, did not choose to start the war, has no record of past attacks against ESC contestants, and is not currently posing a threat to any other Eurovision participating country -> Israel did not get banned

There isn't a double standard, except for people who insist on not following the geopolitical logic. Same ones who didn't use Ukraine's retaliation activities against Russia as justification to get Ukraine banned, but are doing that to Israel, usually with a side dish of false, hyperbolic accusations that have nothing to do with reality.

Also...

The only flags allowed are of participating countries and the pride flag. The American flag is therefore banned. The Mexican flag. The Japanese, the Korean, the Nigerian flags. The world doesn't actually revolve around Palestinians, they're not actually the ultimate victims, and honestly, it's offensive they're cast that way when there are conflicts far worse and bloodier than the current war in Gaza, not to mention it takes away attention and help from them, to make everything constantly about the Palestinians.

Meanwhile, this is supposed to be the rule. Outside the performance hall, but within the borders of the Eurovision village, a visiting Israeli comedian called Guy Hochman was assaulted for walking around with the Israeli flag. Swedish police intervened, but they didn't act against the anti-Israel protesters who attacked and spat on Guy, they stopped him from openly carrying the Israeli flag. He asked why are they not allowing it, even though the flag is of a participating country, in accordance with the rules. He was told it's too dangerous. He then asked why are Palestinian flags not being removed, if they're banned according to contest rules, and was told that in Sweden, freedom of speech is above anything else. He was also grilled about whether he's Jewish by the Swedish policemen. Why was his flag denied, then? Why was his freedom of speech not protected, why was his Jewish identity a matter for questioning?

Another thing, the Swedish singer who ended up in third place in 2011 Eric Khaled Saade went on a childish rant crying over the Palestinian flag being banned (again, as if it's the only one), and as he was invited to perform this year, he got on stage live with a kaffiyeh tied to his left hand, even though he knew that was considered political, and therefore not allowed. Once more, he whined about it as if this is specifically against Palestinians, but you know what? The dress designers wanted to have a Star of David on the dress of the Israeli singer. She's a Jewish woman, that's a Jewish symbol, so why not represent her identity? But they were told that's "political." And you know what the Israeli delegation did? Followed the rules. You won't see the Star of David on Eden's dress. When they were told not to wear the hostage pin, because that's "political"? They followed the rules. When the Israeli song writers were told that their song, expressing Israeli pain, is "too political," what did they do? Followed the rules, they changed the lyrics. And you don't hear them crying about it all over social media and the news.

Not to mention, Eric Saade had no problem kissing the ass of Israeli fans back in 2011, when he competed and needed their votes. Was his dad less Palestinian back then? By the way, Israeli fans didn't hold his identity against him, they didn't demand he be questioned about Palestinian terrorists, or what his stance is on Hamas, they didn't drag politics into it, they focused on music and culture connecting people across borders and identities (as the ESC is supposed to do), and Israel gave its 12 points in both the semi and the final to Eric Saade that year. How did he repay those fans? Campaigning to ban Israel (and therefore them) from the contest, because he's incapable of seeing them as people first, and political rivals second, or maybe even (God forbid!) not at all...

It all smells like hypocrisy to me. But we all know this post won't get anywhere near the exposure (through likes and reblogs) that the lying, self-centered, hypocritical anti-Israel posts do. Doesn't matter. I'll still be here, speaking the truth.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[avalounge]

FELLAS

Maybe something is finally moving, don't stop to shout ban israel and zionists from ESC

[mageofminge]

REMINDER TO BOYCOTT EUROVISION

Here's a quick run down of everything they've done + why you should boycott

Despite banning Russia for its actions in the Russia-Ukraine war, Israel is still in the contest (despite committing war crimes, attacking Gaza with genocidal intent etc)

"But Hamas attacked first on Oct.7" - Then why is Israel also bombing southern Lebanon if Hezbollah and the Lebanese government aren't involved?????

Israel often uses ESC as a platform for propaganda

One key example is their promotions for their 2019 broadcast, where they tried to turn attention away from the occupation and portray the country as a liberal haven of democracy, with the lines "... it's a land of war and occupation. But we have so much more than that!" and pointing out its the only place in the middle east where "gays are hugging in the street". (as if the rest of the Levant INCLUDING PALESTINE isn't actually relatively chill when it comes to gay rights)

Another example is them sending an Ethiopian Jewish singer to perform a song called "Set me Free" the same year they stormed Al-Aqsa during Ramadan, which seemed to be very intentionally trying to shift the narrative away from Israel as a colonial occupier, and more as a persecuted people who have finally found safety

As well as the issues with Israel as a competitor, ESC is SPONSORED by MoroccanOil, an Israeli company (ik the name is misleading, but speaking as a Moroccan Israel just really loves to steal our culture while treating our people they stole like shit [I could go on an entire rant ab this but I won't])

So what this means is we can't just boycott this year and then forget about it the next. Until Israeli presence is completely removed from EUROVISION, your views and your money will be funnelled to support an Apartheid regime. I already know people who are still watching Eurovision despite not supporting the occupation, because they love the artists and the spectacle. But no spectacle is worth supporting an Apartheid regime. The best way we can help the Palestinians is by making Israel a pariah state, and pressuring politicians to cut all their funding. That way they won't be able to put down uprisings and maintain the brutal police state they have - at which point they can only resolve the conflict peacefully and end occupation, or find themselves in the throw of a violent revolution. It was these strategies that ultimately helped end the apartheid regime in South Africa, and it is these strategies which can help end Israeli apartheid.

[randompizzadeliveryguy]

It's a minor case but something that annoys me about the whole EBU silencing the protest during Israels performance is as far as I can remember that one year the crowd was booing those Russians twins (tolmachevy sisters in 2014 I think) and that wasn't cut out of the Livestream. So Russia was allowed to be publicly boo'd and got ultimately banned from the competition but Israel gets to perform anyway and gets special treatment on top of that.

Huh

(Repost because I wanted to make sure its clear that Russia being excluded from ESC is 100% justified and the same should go for Israel but as I said special treatment at its finest)

[chthonickore]

I'm convinced the reason Israel hasn't been banned from the esc is because of Moroccanoil. They sponsor the whole event. An Israeli brand. It's all about money. It always will be.

[aa-400]

it was wild watching the first esc semi-final last night and take in all the anti war and conflict messaging and then see israel's entry when this happened literally the day before:

this isnt even the latest number; 15 people died, ten of which were civilians (including children) and 20 more people got injured

we rightly banned russia from entering so why the hell does israel get to participate year after year

[jeressugarbaby]

Hello my dear boo's, sorry for my late take on all of this but I needed time to think and process what happened.

Yes, Jere made a mistake, he should educate himself more and can be held accountable for this. He needs a good and proper (PR) management, so things like this won't happen again in the future. He should apologise for it. Yes, I'm dissapointed at him.

But the statement(Insta story) and shouting "no war" on the esc stage is a good step, especially since we know how ebu/esc stands on the topic of Israel and that they banned the Palestine flags etc.

Please do not forget that Jere is a human, always in the public eye and people make mistakes. This is no reason to send him hate and death threats! This is not the way to go! We want to spread awarness and that he educates himself so he can use his platform properly and learn from this.

If you need to take a step back from him and social media, this is understandable and okay. Take your time, let the situation calm down a bit and please, take care of yourselves.

I'm not going anywhere, I love Jere and especially this fandom, you all mean so so much to me. I stand with Palestine. FREE PALESTINE! All Eyes on Rafah.