Music shouldn't be the soundtrack of genocide
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2026
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Agree, but you know... since Moroccan Oil (a nazi firm) is sponsoring the festival, it's all good. Because money.
Meanwhile, Russia can't participate (and rightfully so) because they invaded Ucraine. I guess they didn't have a big enough sponsor to make their war as acceptable as the genocide in Gaza from the nazis.
Its weird to think about that.
Boycotting russia plunged Europe into huge difficulties, energy crisis and whatnot... and everyone, including (most of) the politicians accepted it with not much fuss.
What would boycotting israel do? Some weapons manufacturers couldn't make a couple of millions? Just sell the stuff to Ukraine with EU backed loans.
I don't get whats the hold up.
Europeans being murdered is an atrocity that cannot be tolerated. Brown people murdered out of our sight falls somewhere between meh and good-riddance depending on how bigoted you are.
Who are also mostly Muslim with great real estate they want to build resorts on.
Yeah it probably really is that simple.
I'd add, on top of all that, another important thing: Ucraine has resources, but those poor souls on Gaza? They barely have enough to survive. The assholes on the top think about it in monetary terms: has Gaza anything that we can use? Or are they just poor brown people?
There's a lot of surveillance tech and a sh*tload of intel coming from Israel to the EU (and the US)
the value of that intel is questionable at best, but all the world's oligarchs are addicted to assuming it may as well be true
Europe is an US colony, the current european ruling class has been shaped in decades of cold war to be aligned and part of the US empire.
Difficulties and crisis are bad for people, not for the politicians who use these to get even more power.
You're a US colony.
Can Kid Rock please be the soundtrack of genocide?
We can get rid of both then.
musicians - the oligarchs of, performative virtue signalling, just in time as usual to have less than no effect
My country, the Netherlands is already boycotting Eurovision, i'm not used to not having congratulate our government for being on the right side of history. Personally, i expect Israel to buy a shitload of votes again and this time win the contest, then they get to organise the whole thing and will call the countries not coming to their party antisemitic enters. Might register at polymarket to bet on that outcome. If Israel wins this year, i hope the boycotting countries will start an alternative ESC and persuade the not boycotting countries to join them instead of going to Israel.
To be fair, it's not the governement making this call, but avrotros, the broadcaster. And it looks like next year they will just go with another party that has less principles.
But yeah, quite proud about our boycott.
it's not the governement making this call, but avrotros, the broadcaster.
Yeah quite likely the government wouldn't have made the call. Great example of why publicly funded media should get to operate independently.
Thank you for sharing this, OP.
I mean I wasn't gonna watch it anyway, but...
Now I'm going to doubly not watch it.
Dont laugh with zio filth. Only at.
This may happen afterall. EU now moving to end its "economic partnership" structure since 2000 over already determined human rights abuse that violate agreement and give cause for termination.
78 years of human right abuses and genocide
The EU wonโt cancel their economic relations with Israel. Germany wonโt let that happen.
Eurodivision.
It would be kinda awesome if the boycott picks up enough steam that an alternate event gets planned and executed without Israeli participation
Why don't the EBU just kick out or at least suspend Israel's membership?
It's a good call.
Good to see Sigur Ros on the right side of things. They're like if Radiohead didn't turn evil (maybe not all of them, but definitely Thom Yorke).
As a tech worker, this made me wonder if there were any similar movements in my industry:
There are a few movements to boycott Israel goods from profiting and funding the genocide. https://boycott-israel.org/ https://bdsmovement.net/
As much as I enjoy the contest, and love watching with a group of friends and having a lovely drinky poo, I have boycotted because of Israel for a few years now and will continue to.
Crisis? Embattlement or kerfuffle at best.
They are standing up for human beings. We are human beings. WTF. Human beings.