EvilJDA13 countries, yes 13, gave 12 points to Israel in their televote. Spain and Belgium among there when in the Spanish broadcasting the commentators mentioned the crimes of Israel in Gaza and the Belgium broadcaster cut the transmission during the Israeli performance to demonstrate against their participation in the contest.
It’s obvious that for the last two years Israel has been rigging the televote (it’s pretty easy to do buying SIM cards or VPN and paying to vote 20 times).
Eurovision has always been political, but the EBU should really consider if it’s worth it to destroy their reputation just because their main sponsor is an Israeli company (Morrocanoil). It’s not just because they are pink-washing a country condemned by the ICC for war crimes while vetoing Russia, but rigging the televote it’s also shadowing the real televotes of the Eurofans and screwing the whole voting process.
Or maybe people really liked the performance? If you are posting such theories, do you have any proof?
Eurovision votes have NEVER been that unanimous across the board
ZykinoI mean Ukraine 2022, just after the war began. 439 points from the public, 192 jury, 631 in total. By comparison Israel this year got “only” 297 points from the public, 60 jury, 357 in total. Last 2 years Israel was also 2nd and 5ft on the public votes. Last year it even had more public points than this year with 323.
This show can be very political on contemporary events.
- I found all numbers on eurovisionworld.com
Note: country residents cannot vote for their own country. I think this is to prevent more populated countries from winning each time. Maybe Israel have some advantage in this system since we cannot vote against. If Palestine had a candidate, the Ukraine scenario was possible. But since it has no representation, vote “against” Israel are just dilutes all over.
Israel literally bought ads globally to advise people on how to vote for their entry in the finale.
Not a random marketing company or the artists label or even their public broadcasting company. The actual country.
Shady as fuuuuuuck
What really? First time I’m seeing this.
People never give their points neutrally in the televote, normally countries tend to give their vote to the same countries every year, and it’s not possible to distance Ukraine or Israel from their current geopolitical circumstances. So a mass televote to Israel, if it really was done by the eurofans of these countries, wouldn’t be made because they really liked the performance. Also, Israel has more than enough propagandistic reasons to want to win the contest: making as if Europe supports Israel even when it has accused by the International Court, disenchant Palestinians and Palestine-supporters making them think they have lost the rethoric battle, having the next contest held in Israel as a form of pink-washing…
Furthermore, the televote was never fraud-proof, you can pay many times if you have different credit cards or payment methods, there isn’t any kind of biometrics involved, so you have to rely that people and institutions will have good will and won’t do any kind of rigging.
fr.euronews.com/…/eurovision-quelles-sont-allianc…
The performance by the Israeli artist was boring af. But they weren’t alone in that: this years ESC was just terrible. Only one participant was really fun to watch, 2 or 3 songs were actually good, but the rest was below mediocre.
Yeah we’re all in love with the genocide anthem
Yeah, it was a really touching song about recovering from being attacked by genocidal fanatics during a music festival. That was really an emotional song and Europe seems to be moved by it, too.
You have to be some special kind of person to be Zionist in 2025 and before you think this is a compliment it’s certainly not.