The Eurovision Song Contest kicks off on Tuesday, as rifts over Israel’s participation cast a shadow over the 70th anniversary of the popular pop spectacle.<\/p>\n
Five countries, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Iceland, are boycotting the contest in protest at Israel’s involvement because of Tel Aviv’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and destroyed large swathes of the territory. surrounded.<\/p>\n
Human rights organizations have also criticized Israel’s participation. Amnesty International’s secretary-general, Agnes Callamard, said it “offers the country a platform to distract from and normalize the ongoing genocide in occupied Gaza.” genocide is happening”.<\/p>\n
Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza has killed more than 72,700 people, injured over 172,500 others and caused widespread destruction affecting 90 percent of civilian infrastructure as of October 2023.<\/p>\n
During Eurovision week, several protests are planned in Vienna against Israeli atrocities, while security has been strengthened with the deployment of police from all of Austria and support from neighboring German forces.<\/p>\n
Israeli singer Noam Bettan is among 15 artists competing for the votes of the public and national juries in Tuesday’s semi-final at the Wiener Stadthalle arena. The top ten countries will go through to Saturday’s grand final, along with ten other finalists from Thursday’s semi-final.<\/p>\n
Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy qualify automatically as they are among the competition’s biggest funders. Austria, last year’s winner, automatically advances to the final as host country.<\/p>\n
Eurovision has had a hard time separating pop music from politics in recent years. Russia was excluded in 2022 after the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
The 2024 editions in Malmo, Sweden, and last year in Basel, Switzerland, were accompanied by protests against Israeli atrocities and calls for Tel Aviv to be excluded due to the genocide in Gaza, as well as accusations that it had run a marketing campaign that broke the rules to secure votes for its representative.<\/p>\n
After the organizers refused excluding Israel, five countries announced in December that they would not take part this year.<\/p>\n
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which organizes Eurovision, has tightened voting rules after allegations of vote rigging, halving the number of votes per person to 10 and adding measures against “suspicious or coordinated voting activity”.<\/p>\n
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