Eurovision: Israel's result prompts questions over voting
Eurovision: Israel's result prompts questions over voting
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Eurovision: Israel's result prompts questions over voting
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30155120
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If Eurovision is non-political, invite Russia back to participate.
No fucking chance. The hypocrisy is astounding. Butchering innocent people is okay when the perpetrator is friendly to the west.
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That's right, you're making a point. Now, though, people in the comments will explain to you why you're wrong...
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Well, 11 out of 37 total Eurovision participants are under threat of direct russian attack in the future, two of which already attacked and under occupation i.e. Georgia and Ukraine, so you'd ignore that at your own risk. Most eurovision countries have greater (urgent) self-interest in grounding russia before doing the same with israel, but I wouldn't say it is impossible, especially as genocide bibi starts to blame everyone for every stupid thing he does and diplomatic relations deteriorate.
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It's technically not countries participating, but broadcasters and they need to be independent of state control. The russian broadcasters were not kicked out for the russian invasion of Ukraine, but for being state controlled. They were accused of this for a long time and the invasion was the final straw.
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It’s technically not countries participating, but broadcasters and they need to be independent of state control
So...same problem as the geography question then. How the fuck does Australia participate? As best I can tell, it's broadcast here on SBS, a state-owned broadcaster.
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The person you replied to said that the needed to be independent of state control, not that they couldn’t be state owned.
I don’t know about SBS but it is broadcast on BBC One in the UK which is also state owned but is not directly controlled by the state.
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