The Eurovision Song Contest, often shortened to just Eurovision, is a major annual music competition.
The contest, organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), sees countries from across Europe and beyond - including Israel, Azerbaijan and Australia - submit an original song and select an artist to perform the song in a live television and radio broadcast.
The competition has been held almost every year (barring 2020) since 1956 and is extremely popular around the world, and has helped launch the careers of some of the world's most iconic musical artists.
Overall, the songs tend to be cheerful and the event prides itself on being apolitical, though it has come under criticism for some controversies in the past.
Fars News Agency, closely affiliated with the IRGC, used Eurovision to highlight Baku’s growing ties with Israel and amplify anti-Israel rhetoric.
We’ve seen sore losers with this year’s Eurovision, and now there’s a sore winner; Austria's JJ.
“The televoting system currently used in Eurovision is considered the most advanced in the world today," Eurovision director said.
Sanchez's calls to disqualify Israel from Eurovision were out of the need to "show solidarity with the Palestinian people."
Turkish-Israel relations worsened during the war, but since both took parts of Syria in December 2024, they seek deconfliction to avoid military clashes there.
Following her triumphant performance at the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel over the weekend, Yuval Raphael will share her talents with a home audience.
Maybe people were simply voting for the song and the performance, not expressing any deeper political sentiment. Either way, we have reason to feel proud.
This is the third year in a row that popular votes for Israel vastly outstripped the number of votes it received from the national juries.
RTVE was given a formal warning by the EBU after its message during the second semifinal of Eurovision, but decided to double down before the broadcast of the grand final.
The 24-year-old Nova festival survivor said that she felt the spirit of Israel came across plainly in the song.
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