# The Palestinian flag is banned in the Eurovision arena
The organizer of Eurovision, EBU, bans Palestinian flags and signs with political messages or symbols inside the arena in Malmö during the competition, writes Göteborgs-Posten .
Anyone who tries to bring a Palestinian flag or a sign with a political message will be stopped at the entrance.
On the official Eurovision website there is information that only national flags of the participating countries are allowed inside the arena. However, there is an exception, and it is the pride flag that is also allowed. But only if it is used for non-political purposes.
Large protests against Israel are expected during Eurovision week in Malmö.
saltyswedishmeatball on
Great news!
This is where Europe can shine, keeping traditional European values from becoming obsolete.
Burgerjon32 on
The irony here is that Eurovision has always been political circle jerking, where all countries consistently vote for their neighbors or countries they like. Or that Ukraine won and should have hosted it while at war (I don’t know if their song was good or not, but seemed sus… and then they gave it to UK…)
Maybe not FIFA levels, but its a bit silly
seoras91 on
Be funny to see how many make it through, more people will try now I’d imagine.
TheEthicalJerk on
Someone should bring the Martinique one.
ardaxo4693 on
Good news!
Modnal on
Not surprised, Palestine isn’t competing so bringing that flag would be 100% political
PravdaLibrae on
Boohoo they are scared of some flags, thank goodness this show wasn’t about political agendas-
Oh wait.
It’s all about political agendas.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Nihilistra on
Oh there will be many and I hope we see some nice actions like hatari showing the Palestinian flag in Israel!
BiggusCinnamusRollus on
Extremely based.
grzekru3 on
They should ban Israeli flag also
thenewland789 on
Good.
bogdanvs on
haha, the free speech absolutists (aka fascists) of reddit are not actually pro free speech but are just islamophobs :))
so let me see if I get it: in the country where Quran burnings are endorsed, waving a country flag (which last time I checked it isn’t a hate speech symbol) is banned :))) what a shitshow
I’m gonna end this by saying that Israel is in their rights to end Hamas once and for all, and to hang Hamas leaders in a public square. 🙂
edit: I’m pretty sure that the 2nd most waved flag would be that of Palestine, because they just made a thing and a challenge right now. it’s not the hardest thing in the world to sneak a flag past security.
mrkaczor on
Bring Spanish Extremadura flag and red triangle
Jervylim06 on
Streisand effect
Vera8 on
I don’t understand why people wish to violete the regular every year rules (nothing special with not using a non-participating country flag, get a grip), want having protests and political acts? imo these type of people are the ones who are ruining the Eurovision.
crottemolle on
Go Israël! We love you!
mivus on
We should invite Palestine to Eurovision.
It’s crazy that Israel is competing
tlaziuk on
But they didn’t decide to change the name to Jewishvision, why so contradictory?
RelevanceReverence on
I would assume Israël and its flag is also banned?
Finntrz on
Fyi, I believe they have been banned since 2019 with all other flags of breakaway regions of competing countries (I.e. Kosovo) however this year all non competing countries flags have been banned
It seems pretty neutral except for the fact that they allow the rainbow flag despite it not being a national flag. I know if they banned the rainbow flag there would be riots of angry eurovision fans across Europe, overthrowing governments and starting civil wars everywhere throughout Europe. But still kind of funny how it is allowed despite there not really being a valid reasoning for it beside “people want it”.
scarlettvvitch on
Good riddance.
Cchungachanga on
Nice
Rulweylan on
Makes sense. If you’re going to have rules that specifically allow the rainbow flag it doesn’t make sense to allow the flag of an organisation that murders gay people.
AVery-Creative-Name on
Every flag aside from the participating countries is banned. Not just Palestinian flag specifically. They can’t ban Palestinian flag without a backlash. So they did this instead.
ziplin19 on
Perfection.
Meln1kov on
Looking forward to accusations of genocide against Eurovision.
fuxoft on
The headline is intentionally misleading. All non-participating countries’ flags are banned. That includes e.g. U.S. Flag, Mexican flag or the flags of 170 other countries. If Palestine competed, their flags would be allowed.
XemenemsX on
Who will watch Eurovision 2024 anyway? Was planning to boycott already.
haironburr on
But what if you had a lovely horse, and gently draped a flag around its neck as you fed it sugar lumps?
3V3RT0N on
Not really surprising because they ban Catalan, Scottish, Basque and Welsh flags too. Hopefully Israel get booed to high hell and protestors try and disrupt their performance. I usually watch every year but not this year.
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# The Palestinian flag is banned in the Eurovision arena
The organizer of Eurovision, EBU, bans Palestinian flags and signs with political messages or symbols inside the arena in Malmö during the competition, writes Göteborgs-Posten .
Anyone who tries to bring a Palestinian flag or a sign with a political message will be stopped at the entrance.
On the official Eurovision website there is information that only national flags of the participating countries are allowed inside the arena. However, there is an exception, and it is the pride flag that is also allowed. But only if it is used for non-political purposes.
Large protests against Israel are expected during Eurovision week in Malmö.
Great news!
This is where Europe can shine, keeping traditional European values from becoming obsolete.
The irony here is that Eurovision has always been political circle jerking, where all countries consistently vote for their neighbors or countries they like. Or that Ukraine won and should have hosted it while at war (I don’t know if their song was good or not, but seemed sus… and then they gave it to UK…)
Maybe not FIFA levels, but its a bit silly
Be funny to see how many make it through, more people will try now I’d imagine.
Someone should bring the Martinique one.
Good news!
Not surprised, Palestine isn’t competing so bringing that flag would be 100% political
Boohoo they are scared of some flags, thank goodness this show wasn’t about political agendas-
Oh wait.
It’s all about political agendas.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Oh there will be many and I hope we see some nice actions like hatari showing the Palestinian flag in Israel!
Extremely based.
They should ban Israeli flag also
Good.
haha, the free speech absolutists (aka fascists) of reddit are not actually pro free speech but are just islamophobs :))
so let me see if I get it: in the country where Quran burnings are endorsed, waving a country flag (which last time I checked it isn’t a hate speech symbol) is banned :))) what a shitshow
I’m gonna end this by saying that Israel is in their rights to end Hamas once and for all, and to hang Hamas leaders in a public square. 🙂
edit: I’m pretty sure that the 2nd most waved flag would be that of Palestine, because they just made a thing and a challenge right now. it’s not the hardest thing in the world to sneak a flag past security.
Bring Spanish Extremadura flag and red triangle
Streisand effect
I don’t understand why people wish to violete the regular every year rules (nothing special with not using a non-participating country flag, get a grip), want having protests and political acts? imo these type of people are the ones who are ruining the Eurovision.
Go Israël! We love you!
We should invite Palestine to Eurovision.
It’s crazy that Israel is competing
But they didn’t decide to change the name to Jewishvision, why so contradictory?
I would assume Israël and its flag is also banned?
Fyi, I believe they have been banned since 2019 with all other flags of breakaway regions of competing countries (I.e. Kosovo) however this year all non competing countries flags have been banned
I found [this PDF](https://coc.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/EBU-Eurovision-Songcontest-Flag-Policy-249b3214e9.pdf) online which seems to be the official flag policy of Eurovision.
It seems pretty neutral except for the fact that they allow the rainbow flag despite it not being a national flag. I know if they banned the rainbow flag there would be riots of angry eurovision fans across Europe, overthrowing governments and starting civil wars everywhere throughout Europe. But still kind of funny how it is allowed despite there not really being a valid reasoning for it beside “people want it”.
Good riddance.
Nice
Makes sense. If you’re going to have rules that specifically allow the rainbow flag it doesn’t make sense to allow the flag of an organisation that murders gay people.
Every flag aside from the participating countries is banned. Not just Palestinian flag specifically. They can’t ban Palestinian flag without a backlash. So they did this instead.
Perfection.
Looking forward to accusations of genocide against Eurovision.
The headline is intentionally misleading. All non-participating countries’ flags are banned. That includes e.g. U.S. Flag, Mexican flag or the flags of 170 other countries. If Palestine competed, their flags would be allowed.
Who will watch Eurovision 2024 anyway? Was planning to boycott already.
But what if you had a lovely horse, and gently draped a flag around its neck as you fed it sugar lumps?
Not really surprising because they ban Catalan, Scottish, Basque and Welsh flags too. Hopefully Israel get booed to high hell and protestors try and disrupt their performance. I usually watch every year but not this year.