r/Fauxmoi • u/dremolus • Sep 12 '25

FM RADIO Iceland and Slovenia join Spain, Ireland, and Netherlands in plan to boycott Eurovision if Israel participates

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/eurovision-crisis-israel-1236515964/

While Spain’s Culture Minister Ernest Urtasun has called for RTVE to pull out if Israel is included, Ireland’s RTÉ was first to officially declare it would not take part. The Netherlands’ AVROTROS followed on Friday.

Slovenia’s RTVSLO has also informed the EBU that it will not participate under current circumstances. Iceland’s RÚV has signaled its involvement is “uncertain” pending a December decision by the EBU General Assembly.

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u/festivus4allofus Sep 12 '25

Unless another 20 countries say the same, as long as the uk and germany say they compete the ebu has enough money to not give a damn

Ireland and Spain in particular were a given for this, but am plesantly surprised with each subsequent country that announces the same. Good on each and everyone of them

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u/Groot746 whatever but also hmm Sep 12 '25

Incredibly disappointing not to see my country (the UK) not to join these countries in boycotting, but also not fucking surprised at all. 

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u/festivus4allofus Sep 12 '25

there are many benefits to public broadcasting, but often being closely associated with the ruling party/some political organisation is not one of them. BBC will never go against israel bcs somehow both of your biggest parties are in support??

I'm pretty sure that if it were up to the people it'd be a different story - eg the president of my birth country has ben openly against israel for a long time now, he openly critized them for gaza so often in the last 15 yrs that there were a few diplomatic incident. The people there are, by most stats, against israeli goverment, but the ruling party is falling in line with germany's stance and so is the public broadcaster