The controversy is served. Yesterday the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest was held at the Malmö Arena in Malmö, Sweden, which started from a difficult premise due to the presence of Israel as a participant. Over the last few months, thousands of fans of the musical format have strongly asked the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to be expelled from the contest due to the conflict with Palestine, however, the organization has not taken action on the matter and the Yesterday, the country presented its candidacy to the world.
The day before, during the official rehearsals, several videos from the stadium began to circulate online in which you could see how those present booed the Israeli representative during the song, something that the EBU covered up yesterday at the gala with applause and cheers. canned.
After the broadcast of all the performances of the countries participating in this second semi-final (and France, Spain and Italy by the Big Five), the list of qualifiers was announced: Armenia, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Switzerland, Norway, Countries Netherlands, Austria, Greece and Israel.
The classification of Netanyahu’s country was not a surprise to the Eurofan public, but it did obviously cause hundreds of criticisms on social networks. However, the real controversy came minutes after the announcement of the selected ones, just when, at the presenters’ farewell, the Italian RAI mistakenly published the results of the televoting that the different countries had achieved in their territory.
The Italian television network revealed that, while most countries received tiny percentages (Denmark 2.93%, Belgium 1.68%, Latvia 2.91%, Norway 1.55%, etc.), Israel swept a 39.31% of the total votes, something that set off all the alarms.
In 2022, an edition in which Russia was expelled from the musical competition for its military action in Ukrainian territory, the country with its capital in kyiv achieved a very good fourth position in the professional jury with 192 points, but garnered a very high televote ( 439 points) which made him distance himself from second place and inevitably obtain the coveted crystal microphone.
As many fans have commented on social networks like X, the Italian results make us think that Israel will follow this same path and that Eden Golan will receive massive support from other European countries. Faced with this situation, many Eurofans have assured that the victory of said country in Eurovision would mean the ”beginning of its end”.
