Stolen from Mastodon.
Don’t stop boycotting, but it may be a factor in what we saw today, at the very least it’s helping the Israeli government’s advertising to be more effective. ESC really needs to do something (ideally ban Israel) because Israel has made Eurovision even more explicitly political than it was before.
I broadly agree with you, it’s only this hypothetical situation where a second voting bloc is formed that I can’t see happening. That would require a level of active coordination and strategic voting that I’m not sure is possible in this competition. Even if it were possible, do people actually care that much about preventing Israel from winning that they’d rather spend money ruining the entire competition instead?
You are probably right in that people wouldn’t collaberate to prevent an israeli win like that. But israel is gathering people for their collaberation, so I think the voting system is broken either way. If nothing is done, israel is basically guaranteed a top position. If a counter collaberation is formed, the competition is broken into a miserable predetermined show.
I just don’t think eurovision can work with israel (or any other country in a controversial war) participating.
I agree, something needs to be done. And by “something”, I mean an indefinite ban on Israel’s participation.