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[–] iasmina2007@lemmy.world 111 points 11 hours ago (10 children)

Israel shouldn’t be allowed to participate in the first place.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 55 points 11 hours ago (9 children)

They should have been thrown out once it got clear that their response to October 7 turned into a genocide.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

They're not in Europe, so they should have never been eligible to participate.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 44 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This is not the reason why they should be out. They are a part of the EBU and therefore eligible.

The war and genocide is a clear violation though and got Russia kicked pretty fast when they invaded Ukraine

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 17 points 9 hours ago

They should be thrown out of EBU and any other European association a long time ago.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Well akshually you only need to be within the European Broadcasting Area to participate; Middle Eastern countries other than Israel just don't.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.earth 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Then how does Australia get a pass?

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They're a long time affiliate member of the EBU and big Eurovision fans, they were invited for the 60th Eurovision (IIRC) to mark the event and they've just stuck around.

[–] Mora@pawb.social 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

And I am really glad they did. They often brought some cool stuff on the stage.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

This, it would be interesting to extend this special status and have a different guest country every year.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 hours ago

Meh, same goes for Australia, but I see your point.

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