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Slovenia requests Israel's exclusion from Eurovision 2025 (www.yenisafak.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Slovenia officially requested Israel's exclusion from the Eurovision 2025 song competition, according to Israeli media on Saturday.

Slovenia requested that Israel be excluded because of its ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023.

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[–] PapaStevesy 34 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I mean, regardless of your opinion on the current genocide, Israel is definitely, objectively, not in Europe.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Neither is Australia.

The Eurovision is not called that because only European countries can compete, but because it was created by the European Broadcasting Agency to showcase their new network standards that let you broadcast across Europe way back when.

That said, Israel should be excluded if for the genocide, for last year's harassment of other competitors.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apparently being a European settler colony is good enough to participate lol. Maybe America can join in too.

[–] PapaStevesy 4 points 2 months ago

Nah, I've heard Eurovision is generally a good, well-liked thing, no reason to let us ruin that.

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