The chances of Israel participating at Eurovision 2024 are getting slimmer by the minute. Israeli newspaper Ynet is reporting that “Dancing Forever” — Eden Golan’s alternative to “October Rain” — has also been rejected.
Quoting unnamed sources within the Foreign Ministry, the newspaper reports that “the alternative option has also been ruled out.”
“Dancing Forever” placed second to “October Rain” in the internal selection in Israel. But it reportedly still puts Israel at risk of disqualification.
Eden wrote the song alongside Ron Beaton, Mai Sepadia and Vinon Yahal.
Ynet also published the lyrics of the song, which is predominately in English. The paper did not explain the reasons behind the disqualification.
You’ll remember that “October Rain” was disqualified over its lyrics, which were deemed too political. It was largely assumed that that song referenced the October 7 attacks.
When Belarus submitted a song that was deemed too political in 2021, it was given one chance to resubmit. When the second song was also rejected, Belarus was expelled from the competition.
“Dancing Forever” lyrics — Eden Golan
My mind hiding
I don’t know what’s right
Take me to the right road
There’s no more time and I can’t go wrong
Breath in
I know that i’m strong
I brake all the chains
I’m on the edge now
Watch me fly away
Oh dance like an angel
Oh you will remember
That I will dance forever
I will dance again
Oh dance like an angel
Drowning in the sunrise
My heart is so cold, but my soul is on fire
Someone is calling from paradise
The hope doesn’t stop, it just spreads its wings
It is like a million stars that suddenly light up in the sky
Heart on fire I’m a fighter
Don’t stop the music
Turn it up louder
I spread out me wings
Flying through the sky hear violins
Angels don’t cry
They only sing
Still feel the ground
Beneath my feet
why is israel not banned??? ebu is horrible. there’s no way it banned russia and belarus but not israel, when it’s committing a genocide wtf
Calm down. There is no gen0cide.
The international court of Justice rejected the request for a ceasefire and allowed israel to continue the war.
If h@m@s surrenders and gives back all the h0stages, the w@r is over.
The ICJ ruled that h@m@s must return everyone immediately and Unconditionally.
Love to the Israeli Eurovision fans here stay strong.
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Bend for what ? For sending a sad song after a terror attack in a party festival dancing for peace????
I trully hope wiwiblogs will do right thing as a lot of other youtubers and won’t be giving Israel any airtime. Thank you.
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First I gotta say that, being fair, Israel should be banned as Russia was back then no matter which song they send, BUT this been said…. I don’t find the “political” or break of the rules in the lyrics of this song (well, I also didn’t find those elements in the 2nd Belarussian song back then). So maybe EBU is just looking for an excuse to ban Israel but not saying that it is for the war
This song is great, why was it rejected????
The EBU is antisemitic what’s wrong with this song?!?!?!!!
Ludicrous accusation. You cheapen what that means by firing it out every time a comment is made you don’t agree with.
EBU is not antisemitic.
Ebu is just afraid of riots of people who are.
They are afraid of riots in Malmo.
Israel should have sent that song
Qatar is always sunny
Look it up.
I would prefer: “Dancing in the Rain”
Its better for all what grows and desires to blossom.
PEACE
i suggest you to spend your time on reading the quran, not wiwibloggs…fitts you much better. there is another book you can read, its name is meine kampf….
No point in wasting your time reading it when you can literally witness what the Z10n1sts are currently doing to the world. First Pa135tine, now L3ban0n & Syr1a too. What fun it must be to be a nation thay curses H1tl3r all day whilst undertaking the same savage barbar1anism. The only difference here is that h1t13r wasn’t preoccupied with any song contests to try and make himself look like a v1ct1m! Instead of trying to make the EBU bend to Israels way of thinking (the way they expect everyone else to think), I’d suggest their leaders go find a conscience… Read more »
lol, you really understand nothing huh?..lol..when did you last check who are these organisations you support in all the countries you mentioned? lol
WOW!!
Touchée.
Israel is not fighting against Libanon and Syria, but against hezb0ll@ and h@m@s who are firing r0ckets and to israel from those countries.
Israel has no problem with the normal political parties and Libanese civilians. Just with the bases of hezboll@.
Peace.
so you said…lol
The problem is the violent pro-pal anti-israel crowd,
I think EBU is afraid of riots by the pro-pal mob at the Abba anniversary.
Most people here in Europe support israel, but the antis are the loudest and most violent.
Shameful.
Love to the Israeli Eurovision fans hete.
Hope to see you next year.
Love
I think you are confused, in Europe they support peace and say no to the murders of both Palestinians and Jews. I don’t think anyone is in favor of murders on any side, but they are surprised that innocent people are still being murdered after months.
it all start with the intensions, there is a big difference between h@m@s intension and israel…huge one
Well, I hear a lot of people in my country and city who support Israel in their self defense.. Those people just don’t go to the streets shouting. Israel is defending itself on four fronts. H@m@s and isl@mic jih@d have to be weakened. They are still keeping many host@ges, hiding in between and behind civilians. And are firing rockets to Israel every day. Love to the Israeli here. Like the other commenter says, its about the intentions. H@m@s doesn’t want only to destroy all Israel, but also the West. And some Westerners even follow their narrative. Those naive people. Well,… Read more »
Don’t forget that you talk about H@mas that no one here loves her but you don’t talk about Palestinians and they are the ones who are dying just like the Israelis in October
I feel sorry for the people in g@z@ who have nothing to do with h@m@s and want peace. If they cant stand up against h@m@s, i hope they will be freed soon from h@m@s just like the @llies and @mericans freed us Europeans. Btw, everyone knows and sees that h@m@s hides and fights from everywhere, between civilians, in schools, hospitals, apartment buildings. A quarter of the h@m@s r0ckets fired at isrsel misfires and falls and explodes hundreds meter further away in g@z@ itself. You can see it on live videos. R0cket fired to Israel, mistake, falls further in the same… Read more »
So if you are against h@m@s, please tell me how you can eliminate them, all their r0cket launchers, weaponry, etc without hurting civilians.
They are hiding and operating everywhere in G@z@, in between civilians , in unrwa schools, in UN buildings.
Their leaders said on Lib@nese tv that the people must sacrifice themselves for the higher purpose.
Sad but true.
This is a difficult war. And if h@m@s wins, they see this as a religious victory over the other religions and non-religious people.
Our Kingdom of the Netherlands originated in the 17h’s, with the 80 year war at our oppressors the Spanish rule of the House of Habsburg has been built on this story. The founder of the House of Orange Nassau, used to be a Freedomfighter. The family are now our Monarchs still at place.
Many more examples over the cause of history.
Waterloo 2024.
I think you’ll find European sentiments are not pro-israel! Rather the opposite.
And the problem is not the pro-pal ‘mob’. The problem is the actions of Israel, who are currently occupying themselves with being hellbent on destroying L3ban0n, Syr1a as well as Pal35t1n3. They’re the ones creating the mob through their despicable actions. But as always, the v1ctim is Israel.
The v1ctims will be the Europeans. Some naive people have not wakened up yet and don’t want to see what israel and also the west is up against.
Sleep on. Lets celebrate a happy superficial eurovision , now we still can.
are you from jordan? lol
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Hi Wedding Cake, my love was not sent to you, but to the Israeli Eurovision fans here.
I hope that also the people in g@z@ will be freed soon from h@m@s, just like the @llies and @mericans freed Europe.
Yep this website does not even post my comments for saying exactly that – I am afraid of her safety, her family suffered enough!
Exactly we should vote for Israel and make the world wake up !
The wiwilog didn’t even uploaded a reaction im unsubscribing after years.
Maybe 8srael should have sent the song
‘Qatar is always sunny’.
That song would be a winner.
Look it up.
Great song. Very catching. It has already 2 million views 🙂
Yes, the song
Qatar is always sunny
is very catchy and the lyrics are suberb.
I dont get it. First we cant ban israel for war crimes even though russia was booted for less. Now we cant ban them for refusing to respect the no politics rule and continually trying to send stuff that references october 7th (which while bad was not the start of everything. It was retaliation for all the murders and dissapearances israel was already inflicting). Two songs was all belarus got. But israel is special. Israrl cant be held to the same standard as anyone else? Or perhaps it is the other way? Eastern europe must always be on their best… Read more »
Israel is defending itself for more than 75 years. Against the surrounding Arab and ir@nian neighbors, leaders who didn’t want a Israeli state next to them.
Israel is like Ukraine.
Zekenski supports Israel.
Russia congratulated H@m@s after the 7 October m@ssacre.
Don’t you see the geopolitics here?
But more and more arab countries are fed up with terrorism as well and have peace agreements with Israel.
They don’t want extremists in their countries.
They understand better than the western countries how harmful isl@m extremism is.
Lol.
I got a lot of down votes because I just explained the geopolitics that naive people don’t want to see.
Because I explain that Ukraine’s Zekenski supports Israel.
And that Russia congratulated H@m@s after the 7 October m@ssacre.
Wake up people.
Defendkng themselves??? Buddy they are trying to colonize their neighbors. Israel was plopped into the region in the 1940s by some antisimetic colonial powers which decided that rather than deal with their traumatized jewish population it would be much more comfortable to ship them off to a region they considered disposable and let them do as they pleased. This resulted in a massacre of people who had just been living their lives in their homes by zionist colonizers who determined they had a right to everything in the area because the british government signed a paper saying they could make… Read more »
Israel have been trying to defend its for that long because the land they stole isn’t theirs. Don’t commit acts of illegal occupation and then be surprised when you’re attacked.
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israel is not doing any war crimes, the propaganda of the arabs made its way to you as well?
The songs are not political, when you want to find political context in words you can find it in any song.
israel should withdraw, and take with it its eurovision sponsors and i expect countries supporting israel to withdraw as well and that can happen as well.
israel will fight back, the ebu will be left with scars if they will start a w@r with israel
no, just take the israeli companies that funds eurovision and the countries supporting israel, you win some, you lose some…thats exactly what will happen in case israel withdraw…
add germany, the main funder of the contest….trust me, israel is smarter then you…
Delulu
Hi Moses, love to you and Israel. People just don’t understand that you fight a difficult war on many fronts against actually the same enemies of the West. Even the Emirates and other moderate Arab countries understand this, so its weird to see that here in Europe people support the other side and Ir@n. They think you can fight terrorists who fight and hide between civilians, without hurting any civilians. Naive. Maybe they wake up when we have to fight the same fight. Or they’ll will fight with the other side. Who knows. Hope to see you in Eurovision next… Read more »
You do know we are adults with eyeballs and a brain? You can tell me until the cows come how all what you said but it doesn’t make it true. Israel are committing every war crime going, propaganda does go just one way, Israels propaganda is actually something from 1940s Germany, my jaw is on the floor at the songs they make kids sing amongst many other stuff I’ve seen. Finally you are not really sporting that ‘Israel are so sweet and wouldn’t harm a fly wrong’ persona when you are literally threatening an organisation for not allowing your propaganda… Read more »
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Only peacefull Peoples will talk about peace and coming together.
You only talk about more war, how for GOD’s holy heavens you want to create it??
And now Im only talking Eurovision.
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Get a job
If you don’t like her voice, fine. But why make it personal?
I couldn’t stand Cornelia Jacobs’ voice a couple of years ago. Something about the tone just grated on my nerves and made her song unlistenable to me, personally. I never felt the need to say anything more than “I don’t like that.”
Why not try it.
What surprises me the most is that Israel have the time and effort make a scene about participating at Eurovision…..whilst they’re currently tearing apart Palestine, Syria & Lebanon.
Imagine being a country that curses H1tl3r for what he did, all the whilst surpassing him in his barbarianism. The song contest is the last thing they need…..they need to find a conscience.
I feel sorry for all the innocent people (on ALL sides who are caught up in something they don’t want to and don’t deserve to be caught up in). Your leaders are pure evil.
Israel has done a lot of questionable to downright likely war-crimes (just today) but they have a long way to go before they reach that level of evil.
Evil is evil …regardless. And the irony is that Israel is a country who experienced decimation first hand….yet they have turned in to bloodthirsty barbarians themselves.
The body count is stacking up and although the scales of tyranny are immeasurable, Israel has proven itsself to be a major player in the destruction, pillaging, annihilation and murder of thousands of innocent civilians. And now we see the numbers rise beyond that as they now interfere with other Muslim countries. They won’t stop because that’s just who they are and the world can now see them for what they truly are. Vile.
If hezboll@ and ir@n and h@m@s and houthis in Yemen stop firing rockets to Israel and give back all the kidn@pped people,, including old grandpas and young beautiful people who danced on the music festival,
and h@ms dont’t hide between heir own civilians,
then there would be no problems.
It goes further back than that my love…..don’t act like it’s a recent thing. Perhaps only your memory wants to stretch that far but it goes waaaaaay further.
The people you mention are not angels either, but they’ve not actively taken the g3n0c1dal route and tried to wipe out an entire population. And now they’re at it with two or three other places too. Kinda hard to defend their actions when they’re the ones who are the problem.
Ofcourse it goes way back further,. Even before the Arab leaders attacked in 1947, even before the pogroms in the 19th and early 20th century. Even before more and more Arabs came from surrounding areas to work for the ottom@ns and jwwish people.
I hope the people in g@z@ will be freed soon from h@m@s, just like the can@dians and @mericans freed us Europeans.
Then the moderate Emir@tes will look after g@z@ to prevent any uprise from extremism again.
Then the Abraham accords will continue.
Thats the best for all people.
The Final War of Gog and Magog, should start in the Middle East according to Old Scriptures, isnt it?
Israel knows this and are playing with fire.
If you kick your dog long enough as he steals your cookie.
He will bite sooner or later.
Wise words spoken.
Grace to them.
Bravo.
L’histoire se répète cést ne pas??Its a huge discrace on the behalf of Human Mankind what is still hapening on our Planet.
WATERLOO 2024
Enjoy the Ride now we still can.
Before the party is over.
Avada Kedavra,
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What is political with THIS song???
Today I watched in terror some images where we could see hundreds of Palestinians throwing themselves at food when they were suddenly killed by an Israeli army missile. The images were taken from a drone. Will you also justify these murders of hungry people? Were they terrorists too? Are all Palestinians terrorists? Until recently I sympathized with the Hebrew people for what they suffered almost a century ago but I can no longer support this and the saddest thing is to see how the Jews themselves allow so much death every day. Only you can stop the deaths.
As a western-european I say:
only h@m@s can stop it.
By not hiding behind civilians.
By not stealing the humanitarian food and goods from the civilians.
By not firing r0ckets from apartment buildings, schools and hospital grounds to Israel. A quarter of their rockets is misfiresd and falls inside g@z@.. do a quarter is h@m@s fault.
By releasing all the h0st@ges, including the tiddlers, grandpas and young women.
By surrendering.
Sorry for the spelling mistakes.
I meant Toddlers, who are still kept kidn@pped in tunnels
Why i get down voted?. I follow a lot about the hist@ges and there are still children kidn@pped in dark tunnels. Also beautiful young women age 19 to 29.
An older female hostage who was released witnessed sexu@al abuse of young women.
How do you know they’re hiding behind civilians? Can you physically see them doing this? You’d be better letting the IDF know of your intelligence then less innocent people will survive.
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Oh.
This is all so very sad.
This is ridiculous. What is political about these generic af lyrics? EBU is reaching so hard
their next attempt will be a song about their esc-reject songs
Maybe Israel should read the room.
Given that H*m*s, Isl*mic Jih*d and G*z*n civilians attacked, r*ped, murdered and tortured young Isr@elis at a music festival on October 7th, I guess any reference to music or dancing by Isr@el is going to be considered political, hm?
Given that Israel & the z10n1sts have actively been igniting wars for decades and actively partaking in them (even now they have 3 on the go!), it’s no wonder that Europe is turning against them. The world finally seems to have seen enough. Meanwhile there are Israeli’s in here who whitewash their entire complicit behaviour and just point at a recent event that caused them pain. As valid as that pain is, you can’t claim v1ct1m status if you then go on a barbar1c rampage, ending the lives of thousands upon thousands of innocent people, and slowly starving thousands more… Read more »
I am astonished that many of these comments are allowed by the moderators. They are hate-filled personal insults many of which are juvenile in their expression. Are the lyrics political or not? To be honest I don’t care. I do care that people are being given free reign to write hate speech. Please someone step in.
I must admit, as I scrolled down, the replies did become a bit petty and childish…however…
Do a belgium thing : sing in a imaginery langage and then once eurovision is finished just translate the lyrics to reveal that it was the october rain lyrics just to troll the EBU censors.
Belgium 2003! Good times 🙂
So you just write here a new disgusting comment every few hours? That’s your thing?
atthe end israel will participate, both sides will loose in case israel withdaw
EBU should have banned Israel a long time ago. Crimes against humanity are not welcome in Eurovision
who said there are crimes against humanity? you? lol…israel according to international law is allowed to shoot back from anywhere that it was attacked, the fact that h@am@s is holding on purpose citizens(by force) to stay in combat zones its h@m@as war crime, not israel. holding citizens as human shields is the war crime.
get some education, you really need it, btw thats why the ICJ allwoed to continue with the war with no cease fire…
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I support Israel in this situation, but read the room. Competition is held in the Nordics, predominantly woke public. I just pity the singer ?
there is literally nothing politcal in that song. wtf ebu just ban them if you want. don’t try to find a excuse
Whatever you think of Israel’s participation this year, i think it’s worrisome that the EBU has so much power of the songs lyrical content. It paves the way for blatant censorship.
A very good point
If that’s the standard for getting your song banned for lyrical content, we might end up with no songs competing at all this year.
Agreed
So, when Belarus submitted a political song two times in a row during the selection process in 2021 they got banned for 4-5 years. Will it also be the case now or is this also a “completely different situation” like with Russia…? ?
I just think Belarus gave up after those 2 attempts.
But also, yea, different situations.
Just ban them already, this is tiring. They don’t belong here.
And who are you to determine who belongs here?
European, voice of majority, voice of reason… Choose one.
Nah, I don’t think it makes sense.
So much for the people who gave us “All Aboard”.
Majority? Funny.
Starving Palestinians and denying aid is not a European value. Europeans don’t want you here anymore.
Funny, because hundreds of trucks with aid are entering the strip each day.
How many did they give to Israel during the attack? None.
Speak for yourself. Being European and standing for liberal values doesn’t mean being as stupid as you
Kidnappings, terrorist bases under schools and hospitals, spreading faking news and religious cults is not a European value too.
Standing with Israel, always ?
Neither is Gen0cide being carried out by blood thirsty Israeli psychopathic terr0rists.
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Israel should ask to Mr. Osterdahl to write the lyrics he likes. I’m starting to ve fed up with this executive supervisor (the worse from a long time) who is pushing ONLY the agenda of the nordic countries against all the others. If I would be Israel I would send a song with only music, no lyrics. I am sure Mr. Osterdahl will find something bad there, too.
Those lyrics don’t sound political at all…am I missing something??
exactly!! like why did it get rejected, i dont see anything political in those lyrics!
Regardless of personal opinion about the conflict, being honest I dont see any kind of political meaning on those lyrics. It sounds more like the typical self affirmation-i-wanna-be-happy thing.
I think It IS all agreed, Israel does not want to participate to avoid public rejection and EBU rejects everything.
If Israel didn’t want to participate, they wouldn’t have offered another song.
I also don’t expect there to be much of a “public rejection”. Pro-terorrist people are very loud minority, but still a minority. If anything, Israel could earn a lot of sympathy votes.
I have also suggested that it would be reasonable for KAN to send something completely unrelated, but we need to respect what their choice is. I have already suggested that for that exact reason it might not be a good idea to enter the contest this year, since it would be better for the contest to avoid any controversies. But. I have growing concerns about the stance of the fan community. The contest will also face major controversies if it somehow offers an opportunity to this loud minority to hijack the contest, and especially the Icelandic entry for example, and… Read more »
i dont think so, the easy way out , was just to say sorry we are at war its not the time for that.
all this negative attention dont serve israel or the EBU ..only iceland
First of all, according to what I understood today, the Israeli music video for Eurovision is being filmed, in addition at the beginning of the week they worked on the song in the studio and created another version of “October Rain” (less political), in my opinion Israel will participate in the end. Otherwise they wouldn’t have shot the music video today. Eden already uploaded the picture today from the preparations for the photo shoot.
*for the music video not the photo shoot…
I really didn’t expect EBU to be antisemitic. Neither October Rain, nor this song have problematic lyrics. There’s not one bit that would be against the rules, so there are obviously some other motivations at play. Shame on them.
Throwing the anti-semitic card when there is a gen0cide taking place is insulting to the men women and children of pa1estine who have been massacred by Israel so shame on you.
There’s no other reason than antisemitism to ban this song. Lyrics are completely within the rules of the contest.
It is not antisemitic to shut Israel out of Eurovision. Jews from all over the world are allowed to take part in Eurovision… Antisemitic would be if they also kicked Tali out of the competition I guess. But there might be some anti-zionism going on, and rightfully so.
https://www.change.org/p/ban-israel-from-eurovision-song-contest-2024
I’m getting tired of people yelling antisemitism for antizionism. Learn the difference.
Agree, me too! This is what they educate and tell them in Israel, quite scary actually. Too radical for my liking. Before I’m accused of being antisemitic too, please note that I am Jewish. Anyone who speaks out against the government, they retaliate by using the antisemitic card always. This is a sure sign of weakness, which Israel should not be. Personally, I think Israel should step out for a year from taking part. We don’t want any white-washing or pink-washing. Saving face is important. Dignity, humility, humanity and respect, there is a long way to go to get this… Read more »
Look at my comment above to Robert and tell me what you think of that.
Tell me how that sounds radical to you.
Jews can still be antisemitic, if they express those thoughts.
Not saying you’re one, just a response to what you said.
Well, educate us, if you know the difference.
Zionism is supporting the Jews’ right to have their own country in their homeland (just like any other nation in the world).
If a person denied that right just for the Jews but not anyone else, that makes them, infact, antisemitic.
Antizionism is simply the modern antisemitism.
There’s not much of a difference, though
There’s no difference. Antizionism is antisemitism and if you don’t know that then you’re the one who needs to learn.
You can’t sit with us!
Actually, Megan… I can’t sit anywhere, becaause I have
H e m o r r h o i d s
(Old meme but I think it fits lol)
Even though I was part of the team that wants Israel out at least for this year, I really don’t see how those lyrics can be a problem. 1944 was way worse.
That being said, the lyrics here really aren’t a masterpiece…
I think Israel should just stay out of the contest this year and come back next year or in 2 years depending on the evolution of the current events and they should come back with Eden.
We should also keep in mind that there are a lot of rumours. These lyrics might not be the final product as well. I mostly think it’d be unfair to disqualify us after being attacked like that yet to keep others, like Ukraine and hopefully no one else in the future. Israelis want something simple this year – to feel heard and express their pain. I’m sure all sane people in Europe can listen to a song about the pain after a terr0r attack and sympathise with it. Don’t have to vote for us, just give us the place to… Read more »
Are you seriously saying that it is unfair to keep Ukraine in the contest?!? Are you mad or something? There is a huge difference between Ukraine and Israel. Ukraine has been under constant siege and attacks since 2022…they have enemy on their soil and are defending themseleves to this day. Israel was attacked on october 7th…a horrible attack… And even how horrible it was, it was ONE day. Since October 7th Palest1ne has been the onder constant attack with thousands of casualties and it is Israel that is on Palestinian soil, and not the other way around. Israel went fast… Read more »
You probably didn’t understand – Ukraine should remain in the contest and so does Israel. The attack might have been one day (it was a bit longer, as it took some time to get rid of all terr0rists who invaded us), but it’s not over for us for 3 reasons, 2 mainly. The Kibbutzim near the border are still destroyed with many have no permanent home, and same goes for the northern citizens who were evacuated because of Hezb0llah in Lebanon. Hmas are still willing to commit more attacks, so even if the threat isn’t in our borders, we can’t… Read more »
One day???? I follow the news here in Europe and they were not attacked just one day.
For almost 20 years hmas fires rockets at israel, then there was this big m@ssacre of 2 days, and until today rockets are fired at israel.
There are still many histages, including grandpas and young beautiful girls and women, held in dark tunnels.
Also there are rockets everyday from Libanon, Syria, Yemen.
Bye Felicia!
Baby, I see you have a lot of free time for spreading hatred around. Good for you, but please don’t intrude us all with your opinion and obscenity against a young artists. Find a hobby, or read credible sources, you brainwashed t3rr0rist supporter. Write a song and send it to Hms organisation to consider representing a non-existing country.
Doesn’t look like we’re missing out on masterpieces anyway.
Situation is getting a bit out of control I have to admit. I can see the references to the Nova music festival that H@mas attacked (“Drowning in the sunrise My heart is so cold, but my soul is on fire Someone is calling from paradise”), but this is very subtle and unless the commentators explain this during the live show it won’t be easy to make the association. It’s very clear that EBU doesn’t want any even remotely indirect references to the current events and if Israel want to send a song about it -which is also pretty much obvious-… Read more »
At this point it just seems like EBU wants to disqualify Israel by all means. IMO none of the lyrics from either entry are political, any country could send those lyrics and have no issues. Maybe the ‘October rain’ title was the one linking it with the w4r. Either way I find the EBU quite unfair when it comes to their ‘no-politics’ rule. Ukraine and Croatia were allowed to participate in previous years with very political songs with no issues at all. EBU should set the same standard to every participating country instead of being permissive with some countries and… Read more »
When an event such as Oct 7 happened, titles such as October Rain and Dancing Forever are presented, they are obviously referencing the event. It’s so blatant. Nothing like Ukraine or Croatia.
“Sisters Crown” and “Mama SC” was on the same level as “Dancing forever”, there was no direct reference it was all metaphorical then “1944” although sung about 1944 it doesn’t take an educated person to guess that it was a statement in reference to Russias annexation of Crimea as it was sung not long after, “1944” was also a lot more direct and sinister in its lyrics “they come to your home kill your all and say we’re not guilty”
None of those songs were by the “agressor” candidate…. So that is why they got away with it. Also 1944 was a song about something that happened in 1944 and didnt refer to the annexation of crimea in 2014 specifically. If there had been a sentence like “and now history is repeating itself” in the lyrics then that would have been a different matter…
In that case was the UK and other western countries that went after Al Queada the agressor in the 00s, this is the same as what Isreal is doing going after a cowardly terr*** organisation, Palestinians unfortunately just happen to be caught in the middle of it and used by H**** as human shields.
So what? They are subtle references. You can’t expect the barbaric attack that happened in October to not affect a country and thus its culture. Culture always reflects context in which it is created.
By this logic Rise Like a Phoenix should’ve been disqualified as political. It’s an absolute nonsense.
Event? How about massacre?
Eurovision is about unity and peace and love for music… This is why they have accepted songs about peace and anti war songs in the past… But when songs are blatantly referring so a recent or ongoing conflict or war, and that from the agressor part then it is WRONG and in breach of the rules. As the situation is right now, Israel is the agressor, not the victim anymore. Israel is in all control and there is no equality. So sending songs that is about how horrible it is for poor israelis would be tasteless…. I am sorry, but… Read more »
Israel and its obnoxious antics. It gets annoying real fast. Just leave already!!
Bye!
Oy vey, enough with the drama! When are we gonna get a resolution?
Just announce the DQ already. This is looking like the Belarus ’21 situation all over again.
This does make for an interesting topic to snack on some popcorn, not gonna lie…
Submit a song without lyrics like Norway 1995 maybe? I think it will send a powerful message about censorship.
*Norway 1995 have some lyrics but you guys get my point
I actually love the idea. That would be really ‘in your face’.
Didn’t the Israeli broadcaster make it clear that it would not amend ‘October Rain’ to comply with the EBU’s rules. That lasted all of two minutes.
I think they said they had two songs – both recorded by Eden. This is the second one. But yeah they did proclaimed they’re not changing anything. Except an entire song it seems.
You’re mixing up the timeline. KAN sent both songs to the EBU, then EBU disqualified ‘Dance forever’. But in the meantime, KAN had decided to go with ‘October Rain’ anyway. And as far as that song is concerned, the EBU still has to make a final decision.
Tbh between the two October rain is the most direct and if the more subtle forever was rejected it doesn’t leave much hope for October rain