Countries That Won’t Participate In Eurovision 2026 due to Israel

Posted by adorn_mapper

35 Comments

  1. Should be more of them.

    This contest was born to foster peace and understanding between nations.

    Israel starts war after war, uses this contest for soft power propaganda and its documented that they cheated in voting.

    Russia was kicked for less, Belarus was kicked for less.

    This is simply not acceptable.

    Also shame on organizers for preferring one Middle Eastern nation vs 5 European ones in European music contest.

  2. Israeli bots already swarming the comments harder than the Eurovision public vote … 

  3. With good reason, I’m still incredibly mad about our disqualification. No reason for that.

  4. crispystrips on

    Should be more and same action should extend to sports and football similar to what happened to Russia.

  5. History_isCool on

    Worth mentioning that none of these countries boycotted the Olympics despite the participation of Israeli athletes. Their outcry here is only symbolic.

  6. Another reason for the Netherlands’ boycott is the EBU’s hypocrisy. Their artist was disqualified for exaggerated claims of misconduct, while Israel’s much more severe violations of harassment, vote manipulation and instrumentalization of the contest for political purposes were ignored, not to mention what is happening outside the contest.

  7. Russia is banned because they are invading a fellow member of the EBU, all well and good. Israel are now invading and openly stating that they will take full control of 10% of another EBU member, yet they are not held to the same standard.

  8. reasonable-99percent on

    What about the rigged voting of 2022? Those countries unable to vote should’ve said no, too…

  9. DeManDeMytDeLeggend on

    Never been prouder to be Irish than when our national institutions stand up for Palestine. Saoirse don Phailaistín.

  10. HasSomeSelfEsteem on

    Why was Israel even allowed to enter Eurovision in the first place? They’re not in Europe!

  11. Isn’t the whole purpose to promote peace and togetherness? Make a rule if a country have engaged in conflicts as an aggressor, bombing civilian targets in the 12 months leading up to the competition, you sit out until next year.

  12. thefloatingpoint on

    Jokes on you. I won’t watch that shit anyway.

    Fuck that crap and anyone participating in it.

  13. I’m thinking (hoping) they’ll be banned next year. A lot of these countries boycotted Eurovision when it was still arguable that Israel were just ensuring the destruction of Hamas tunnels in Gaza. Now it’s damned clear that Israel is actively expansionst and genocidal; there’s no excuse for not excluding them next year.

  14. EinSchurzAufReisen on

    Come on, Germany! That would be an elegant way out, without the usual zero points and last place.

  15. Silver_Mention_3958 on

    Wish there were other countries. We’d stand strong with them 🇮🇪

  16. dingalinglans on

    I’m boycotting it this year. We normally have a big party but having those war criminals there really puts a sour taste on things.

  17. Fucking unbelievable how they’re still referring to the genocide as *a conflict*.

  18. Gaza and the Genocide accusations aside, Israel should be kicked out for their blatant cheating in the past two Eurovisions. There is no legitimate way those two mid to poor songs could do so well just in televoting alone.

    Unicorn in 2023 was a great tune though.

  19. Environmental_Kick26 on

    Absolutely fuck the EBU for this. Shouldn’t even be a question. Glad to be on the right side of history, AGAINST the RIGHT!

  20. Alert-Commission-729 on

    These countries should boycott US also but they won’t since they are afraid of US.