Oh he’s such a putz. But if he worries about Western Civilization, he can tell his ex-employers to get off the fence and support Ukraine the way Zelenskyy supported them. Not in a song contest but militarily and politically.
. My only hope is that her anti-Israel hatred makes people realize that the "green" cause is full of similar lies, distortions, and BS! Shame on the all-too-predictable voting, but I suspected as much. Mieze, if I had thought of it, I'd have joined you in voting for Israel. 
Just because I see this over and over again - the people supposedly making a protest against “woke” had one song to vote for and still lost.I boycotted this year because of the hate and woke extremism, including and especially by Greta Thunberg
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Reminder for those reading your posts: Eden Golan was twelve at the time. Twelve is not an age of criminal or moral responsibility and she did not choose to move to Russia as a child. She is not accountable for what Israel's government does, let alone Putin's.
Just a reminder that she is no longer 12 years old and she can already be held accountable for her actions, which means she can stop pretending that the “russian period” of her life did not exist. And the fact that she does not live in Russia does not mean that this period is not over.
WTF? No, that's not how it works. We do not hold people accountable for things they did as children once they reach adulthood. Eden Golan does not live in Russia, she does not represent Russia, and she's spoken about that period in her life plenty in the the Israeli media. It's hardly a secret.
from some of the other Eurovision entries is mostly self-created. They could have made this a non-issue; they chose otherwise. And unlike Eden Golan eight years ago, they're all adults.
You think harassment and intimidation is entertaining? Okay...
I am talking about the Jury boo's... read my post
I read your post and I still don't get what you're trying to say. The jury boos were not great fun-- they were solely being booed because they decided to give Israel points. Did we watch the same show?
She was not booed because of her religion. Again you are trivialising real antisemitism by ascribing it to where there is no evidence. If the audience were booing that contestant because of her religion they would also have booed another contestant representing a different country. And the audience did not.
About the DQ boos.I read your post and I still don't get what you're trying to say. The jury boos were not great fun-- they were solely being booed because they decided to give Israel points. Did we watch the same show?
I'm so sorry
Wow. I'd never thought we would ever agree on something.I rarely vote in the ESC too, most of the years I just watched, some years I don't watch at all, sometimes I cast votes, but usually for several artists, since I haven't had a clear favorite in years. Plus I always voted for all sorts of reason, not necessarily always for the song I liked best, might also be the costume, the country of origin or somebody looking cute
In a German forum some fans who attended the contest live wrote they were treated with hostility by other fans when they cheered for Israel getting points.
It's so out of line with the whole idea of the contest and makes the slogan sound like a farce.
Plus not at all impressed with Greta Thunberg and her mom, they've really become unacceptable.
I've never seen any "ads" for the Israel entry (saw practically no ads for the Eurovision in general, because if I watch the ESC I still do it the old-fashioned way, I want to hear all the songs for the first time on the evening of the finale ). But I still got some people on my instagram feed, who keep advocating their idea of "pro-palestinian" activism (mostly young-ish actors or musicians, who have a lot of opinion combined with endless ignorance) and at least 75% of them post content that makes me realize the importance of protecting Israel and the Israeli people (I try to be tolerant of the content until it crosses a line and then I unfollow those people), so if any propaganda made me vote for Israel, it certainly wasn't "right-wing".
And the only way I could accept the behavior of some of the other contestants and audience was if Netanyahu himself was the Israeli ESC entry.
Nobody is talking about the majority in any of these countries as not everybody watches Eurovision. The people who actually end up televoting are also a small percentage of the people who watch the shows. Then you had 24 potential songs (you cannot vote for your own country) to choose from. If you have a few thousand voters voting 20 times for one song, it will be enough to skew the vote in favour of that country’s song.
The Irish singer did not make the Israeli delegation move hotels. The crowd in the arena were not chanting “Intifada” and “Revolution” (it was booing and a couple of shouts of “Free Palestine”) Where did you get that information from?I'm sure. The Irish singer making the hotel move the Israeli participants from their rooms, the crowd chanting "Intifada! Revolution!" in Malmö etc. must have been a gift to Netanyahu and anyone who benefits from the "national unity against the world" rhetoric.
Siri, tell me how I am on the wrong side of the argument without telling me I am on the wrong side of the argument.
Death threats are not a laughing matter.Even if girlfriend wanted to leave the hotel in Malmo, she wouldn’t have had time as she was too busy recording ads.
The crowd in the arena were not chanting “Intifada” and “Revolution” (it was booing and a couple of shouts of “Free Palestine”) Where did you get that information from?
I agree that Israel hasn't achieved anything concrete, maybe except for European Jews very briefly feeling some solidarity. OTOH it would be wrong for anyone to disregard what has happened as the result of Israeli ads (which never appeared on my timeline) or anti-abortion people telling others to vote for Israel. Why would this work on unrelated people in other countries?
That event is part of what has shaped me. Looking at the people in the protest, the vast majority of them were Middle Eastern. You don't understand the Middle East. There are many parallels between the events and it could have gone just as wrong if the protesters had been allowed anywhere near the hotel or venue. Sweden already has a domestic terrorism problem with more than 200 separate bomb explosions per year. I felt the need to protest against a musician being targeted, which is always wrong.
You may well be right but fyi I wouldn't trust Hen Mazzig if he posted the sun rose in the east. An utter slimeball on the government payroll.
Never said they were. On the other hand when you are at a competition, be it Eurovision or a sporting event, between practice/rehearsals do you ever have much time to go anywhere besides your hotel and the venue?
Nice try, but some guy who obviously is a paid troll with a blue tick is not credible. And no I will not be doing your research for you either.
The Swedish police found the threats credible enough to deploy around a hundred police officers, to tell her not to leave her room and to tell her parents not to join her. That, and not some random source, is the indication of the seriousness of the threat.
