public television Israel (Kan) has confirmed the country’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 after several failed attempts to be part of this year’s edition, which will be held in the Swedish city of Malmö next May.
There have been several weeks of uncertainty due to not knowing if the country that is in a war conflict would finally participate in Eurovision, due to the negative stance of other countries regarding its candidacy and due to the battle between Israel and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). ). This was because the EBU alleged that the letters of The songs they proposed carried too many political connotations.
There are three topics that the country has had to propose for the EBU to admit its candidacy in this year’s festival. The international organization has recently stated that Hurricanethe last topic that Israel has proposed, “meets the necessary criteria to participate, in accordance with the rules of the competition”. But this decision came almost at the last minute, since the deadline for submitting candidatures ends next Monday, March 11.
October Rain and Dance Forever They are the songs discarded by the public entity given their political content, which violates the rules of participation in Eurovision, an event considered apolitical, where artists and television networks compete, not governments. The countries that strongly opposed these proposals entering Eurovision 2024 have been Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Iceland, Portugal, Italy, Croatia and Germanyas confirmed by Israeli journalist Ran Boker.
Eurovision fans oppose Israel’s participation
The song that will represent Israel at Eurovision is, finally, Hurricane, and is written by Keren Peles, Avi Ohayon and Stav Beger, but we will not be able to listen to it in its entirety until March 10. The story that his verses talk about seems to be very far from the other two discards, since this new one would tell us the story of a young woman who emerges from a personal crisis.
Despite this, a large part of the Spanish Eurofan public has already spoken out on the matter and is raising its voice showing its disagreement with the decision made. In fact, a collecting signatures calling for expulsion from Israel of Eurovision 2024, which will be transferred to RTVE and the EBU, requesting that the Spanish public broadcaster oppose its participation or to ask it to withdraw from the competition.
