🇪🇺🇮🇱 How Israel “won” the second place in Eurovision (Part 2):

While being advertised on public broadcasters is permitted, they are responsible to avoid the contest becoming politicised. The extensive promotion of Raphael omitted any mention of IPBC, the broadcaster she is representing. To add to the political nature of the voting, Israeli embassies had also advocated extensively for Raphael, echoing practices of the last year.

The result was ludicrous; 19 countries, including some with strong pro-Palestinian sentiment such as Spain and Ireland had given 10 or more points to Israel. Views of ads in these countries totalled more than 4.2 million.

Apart from Tel Aviv’s propaganda efforts in the voting process, it should be noted that the presenting sponsor of the contest was an Israeli company known as Moroccanoil. Despite its name, the company has no ties to Morocco and produces most of its products in Jerusalem, thus the brand’s usage constitutes appropriation of the country’s Argan tree.

In a contest that claims to be apolitical, politics continue the dominate the field. Expelling malevolent actors is the only solution.


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