I hope more countries support this. Genocidal countries like Israel should not be invited to events.
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2025
349 points (99.4% liked)
Hacker News
2727 readers
249 users here now
Posts from the RSS Feed of HackerNews.
The feed sometimes contains ads and posts that have been removed by the mod team at HN.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Dunno. Netanyaho has been invited to The Hague, and I think that's a good thing
Oh he should most definitely homtonhe Hague, well have a special welcome for him!
I hope more follow, those that don't will be on the wrong side of history
Spain being a guaranteed finalist and a large financial supporter of Eurovision gives this a lot of weight
At the end of the day, the only thing people truly care about is money. Losing a major donor is likely not an option for Eurovision
Wait guaranteed finalist? That's how that thing works? Like I've seen the clips of individual performances but I've never watched the whole thing, they have preset finalists?
From their website:
There shall be six guaranteed places therein, i.e. one for the producing organization, i.e. the Member which has won the preceding edition (the "Host Broadcaster"), and the five Members from France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom (the “Big 5”).
Really is a shit competition isn't it?
It's a great show and those who finance it have a spot in the main event.
If you think the competition part is very important you don't understand it.
He'll if you believe you can have competive music you don't understand art
who are the other two ?
Ireland and Netherlands
Didn't expect the Netherlands
They were kicked out of the finals 2 years ago after a smear campaign from the Israeli broadcaster. They absolutely have an axe to grind
didn't know that either, makes sense
Damn, Eurovision goes hard
Its about the only way EU countries can "battle" each other without starting WW3
The head of Slovenia’s national broadcaster has also said the country, a regular participant in Eurovision, would likely withdraw if Israel participates. Similar comments have been made by the head of Iceland’s national broadcaster.
Yes, but they haven't confirmed it, its only 'likely'.
The second paragraph says who the other two confirmations are: "The move follows similar statements last week by RTÉ and the Dutch public broadcaster AVROTROS. "
RTÉ is the Irish Public Broadcaster.
So Ireland and the Netherlands
Byebye Moroccanoil. I'm not implying this is the reason Israel remained in Eurovision. But watch Moroccanoil drop Eurovision if Israel gets removed.