Clear statement: ESC winner JJ from Austria According to a newspaper report, he wants the Eurovision Song Contest Next year in Vienna without this time in second place. “It is very disappointing that Israel is still taking part in the competition,” quoted the Spanish newspaper “El País” 24-year-old Johannes Pietsch.
“I would like the Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Vienna next year, without Israel. But the ball is now with the Ibu. We artists can only comment on it.”
Last year’s winner Nemo from Switzerland against Israel
The European Radio Union (EBU/European Broadcasting Union) is a merger of broadcasters from dozens of countries of the organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), which has existed since 1956.
The trained opera singer Pietsch Had at the competition held in Basel last Sunday night With the song “Wasted Love” Most points won and the international music show won.
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Israel’s participation in the ESC has been criticized again and again in recent months. The background is the war against the terrorist organization Hamaswhich Israel leads in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. This began after the unprecedented massacre by Palestinian terrorists in Israel in October 2023. Since then, more than 50,000 people have died in the Gaza Strip.
Also Last year’s winner Nemo from Switzerland had opened openly for Israel’s exclusion. Similarly, 70 former ESC participants recently commented in an open letter.
For Israel was last Saturday evening The singer Yuval Raphael (24) started. It is a survivor of the terrorist attacks on Israeel on October 7, 2023. At the time she was with a friend at the Nova Music Festival, a massacre on the terrorist from the Gaza Strip.
Her song “New Day Will Rise” ended up in second place in the ESC final in Basel; In the audience voting, Israel had even been in first place. Only the points of the dozens of specialist juries from European countries gave Austria and JJ victory. (dpa)
Source: Tagesspiegel
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