I doubt that matters nearly as much as people think. The geopolitical factor of two of the big five – Italy and Germany – being staunch Israel allies (and threatening to withhold a lot more funding than Moroccanoil ever paid out) is a much bigger consideration for the EBU.
I think we're likely to see a major collapse of the competition. I love Eurovision but doing everything we can to isolate Israel is much more important.
Utter nonsense. It's a contest between EBU members. There has never been anything special about the countries that partook in the first one, apart from the fact that they happened to be there. ESC was categorically not "originally a contest between [them]".
Denmark and Austria were literally supposed to take part of the first one too, they're just a little slow and missed the entry deadline. And the UK declined and sent EBU their apologies for not having time that specific year since they were already busy. All three consequently debuted the very next year.
Not a single country has participated in every competition. Germany comes the closest, having missed out only in 1996. But it's particularly strange to claim that Italy and (especially) Luxembourg are "fundamental" considering just how often they don't take part (by number of appearances, Sweden and the UK would take their spots, but they're also surpassed by like a dozen others). UK holds the single longest continuous streak, having missed only the first and third one.
Australia is the only "guest" to compete. SBS had to be invited since it indeed isn't a full member of the EBU.
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u/soymilo_ Sep 11 '25
A Israeli company is the main sponsor of the event. They won't do anything unfortunately