While a new edition of Eurovision must be held in 2025, several former candidates of the show, including the French La Zarra (2023), Jessy Matador (2010) and Marie Line (1998), signed an open letter to request the exclusion of Israel from the competition, as well as his national channel “Kan”.
A little more 70 former Eurovision candidates have signed an open letter In the columns of The Independent.
In this one, they ask that Israel and his national channel “Kan”, that they accuse of being “accomplice of Israeli genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza and the apartheid regime and military occupation which has lasted for decades against the whole of the Palestinian people “are excluded from the competition.
Among the signatories, we find in particular the Irishman Charlie McGettigan (1994), but also The French La Zara (2023), Jessy Matador (2010) et Marie Line (1998).
-Always according to our colleagues, This letter was sent to the European Union of Radio-Television (UER), who takes care of organizing the event. He is also accused of having done of the 2024 editionwhich took place in Sweden, “The most politicized, the most chaotic and The most unpleasant in the history of competition “.
Accusations
In 2024, the Irishman Bambia Thug accused the Israeli channel of having “Incitted to violence” against him “Two, three times”. The latter was then withdrawn general rehearsals.
Finally, this is not the first time that the UER has been strongly criticized. Even last year, many people had already criticized the UER of not having excluded Israelwhen she had excluded Russia, in 2022, following its invasion of Ukraine the same year.
