On the matter of Israeli participation, my opinion is that they shouldn’t have been there for two completely unrelated reasons. The first is that they’re not in Europe, and yes I’ll argue the same about Australia too.
The second is that a precedent was set when Russia and Belarus were kicked out in 2022 for the war in Ukraine, the precedent had been set that a country engaging in an illegal war would be excluded, yet this wasn’t applied to Israel, so one rule for them…
Honestly reading online about all this fluff and nonsense about a low quality singing contest just makes me fear for humanity. The fact that the Israeli singer was booed and had to have an armed escort just shows how utterly warped humanity is becoming. Did she authorise the use of lethal force in Gaza? No. Has she committed to wiping Gaza off the face of the planet? No. Her crime then? Being from Israel. Can you imagine the response if a signer from Gaza or the West Bank was invited and booed at? Yet their government is as equally committed to violence and murder as the Israeli government.
All this stupid virtue signalling needs to stop, because none of it makes a blind bit of difference. In the conflict in Gaza both governments are equally responsible, but their people are not, at least the ones not taking up arms. So everyone should stop taking it out on their people, its stupid and childish, and it makes me really angry.
Believe she’s joining the Israeli military next week. She’s not as innocent one might initially think.
I agree that neither side is innocent in the Gaza conflict but there’s one staggering difference between the two sides - one is committing what many would consider to be a genocide and the other isn’t. That’s not saying the other is innocent, Hamas are far from innocent.
You're simply projecting your own prejudices of the UK onto the whole of Europe.
Sorry, but out of the whole of Europe, the UK is arguably one of the least xenophobic/racist/whatever word you want to use whose meaning has been totally diluted over the past decade or two. Just look at the amount of inter-race marriages we have compared compared to Europe. Polls consistently show us as more tolerant to foreigners too. I honestly don't know what you're basing it on that you think we are less tolerant than continental European nations, everything points to the contrary.
Ordinary people in the UK generally aren’t racist/xenophobic. But our government definitely is and that’s what everyone else judges us on.
What may not have helped here was that unfounded allegations were made against the Greek artist.
She yawned at the same time the Israeli artist (who, for avoidance of doubt, should NOT have been excluded IMV) was having an interview. Probably just because she was tired, rather than anything else.
Yet you get the "Sun" calling her a "brat". Nice. The UK gutter media to a tee.
Absolutely, the likes of the Sun have done what they always do and made an already bad situation worse.