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[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 6 months ago

Huh, I would've thought Eurovision's core audience would be hardcore "Israel has a right to defend itself!" libs.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 6 months ago

They would be if Israel had some restraint but they decided to do a full blown ethnic cleansing which at some point becomes hard to overlook. The one and only time I watched Eurovision it was held in Tel Aviv and I remember that there was only one instance of protestation against them where a participant band displayed an anti-Israel banner. Apart from that people didn't mind much.

[-] ComradeEchidna@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That said Israel hosting Eurovision was a huge flop for them, they only got a fraction of the tourists they thought they would get, there were extensive pro-Palestine campaigns to discourage people attending, though how much was that versus Europeans just not wanting to go the Middle East no matter how hard Israel tried to convince them.

[-] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

I can only speak for the LGBTQIA+ crowd, but ... i mean, let's face it, that is the core audience. And there's a pretty clear split between the Queers for Palestine faction and the homonationalists, and it looks as if the latter are finally losing. This is in large parts due to queer solidarity for Palestine having already been clearly articulated way before the invasion of Gaza went underway, and calls for boycotts and an exclusion of Israel coming from that very crowd beginning as soon as the war started. What's discussed itt didn't come out of nowhere, it's been boiling up for half a year, and resting on foundations much older than that.

[-] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

Weird how virtually every marginalized group across planet earth is now - if not before now - firmly aligned on the side of Palestinian liberation.

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