“How Dare You!”: Israel Gets Top Public Vote From 14 Countries in Eurovision – Plus ‘Rest of the World’
Switzerland may have snatched the crown, and Croatia barely clinched the popular vote, but Israel bagged top points in the televote from the highest number of countries – including the ‘rest of the world’ – at the 2024 Eurovision. Voters in the U.K. were among the 14 countries that rewarded the extraordinarily brave Eden Golan with the maximum 12 points for her performance of ‘Hurricane’. The Daily Sceptic extends our heartfelt thanks to all our readers who voted to make sure the doom goblin and her army of hate pixies didn’t win! The Times of Israel has the story.
After months of calls for Israel to be banned from the international song contest, voters in 14 different countries – out of 37 that were eligible to vote – plus those in all non-participating nations as a group, handed the most possible points, 12, to the Jewish state. Overall, Israel’s Eden Golan finished fifth out of the 25 competitors in the Eurovision grand final this year.
Ultimately, Israel got top marks from voters in Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, plus the “rest of the world” aggregate. It also got 10 points, the second-highest possible, from Albania, Austria, Cyprus, Czechia, Moldova, Slovenia and even Ireland, considered by many to be one of the most anti-Israel countries in Europe.
Overall, Israel received 323 televote points, just behind Croatia’s 337 points, and ahead of Ukraine’s 307 points from the public. Croatia got top marks from nine countries and Ukraine from seven.
Israel did notably less well in the jury votes, in which each country presents the results of a group of musical professionals. It got just 52 points there, 12th overall, prompting some Israelis to decry the snub as political. Still, the country still ended up with more jury points than the U.K., Greece, Latvia, Cyprus, Lithuania, Serbia, Spain, Austria, Georgia, Slovenia, Norway, Finland and Estonia. …
Israel’s huge televote success came as an unwelcome surprise to the activists who had been trying for months to unsuccessfully have the country barred from the contest. During the jury vote awarding portion of the competition, Israel’s representative, Maya Alkulumbre, was loudly booed by some in the audience, and some even booed each time any country awarded any points to Israel.
How did the country considered a pariah by so many over its ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza end up so popular? There’s no real way to analyse the motivations of millions of voters – and the European Broadcasting Union doesn’t reveal how many people voted – but a few trends are clear to see.
The most obvious is that the loudest voices on the internet do not necessarily represent either the overall majority or the majority of those who decide to vote in a song contest. Months of frantic hysteria on social media and Reddit forums clearly do not translate to real-life votes. …
It is also much easier to vote in support of a country than against it – if anti-Israel activists didn’t rally around one particular contestant, and especially if they boycotted the vote, then their sentiments were not going to be counted.
Golan and Israel also ironically received a boycott boost – all the attention and media coverage of the controversy provided a much higher level of exposure to the song than in normal years. Some voters were also likely part of the backlash of those turned off by the pariah treatment given to the 20 year-old Golan by fans, Eurovision bloggers and even her fellow contestants.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: David Cameron has launched a stunning rebuke at the BBC for not labelling Hamas as ‘terrorists’.
Stop Press 2: Rent-a-protester Greta Thunberg was hauled away by cops as pro-Palestine demonstrators clashed with armed riot police outside the Eurovision final venue.
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I love seeing little Greta’s face. Let me get that right; I love seeing her face when she is ignored or beaten. Looking as though she is sucking lemons with her bum.
Face looks like a smacked arse, as an ancestor used to say.
I thought of posting that the vote should be for the song, then the performance and hardly at all for the nation state of the performer. That idea was lost decades ago.
can someone please post the names and biog of the official (sic) UK jury. I don’t need pictures as I can imagine them already.
https://twitter.com/EuRollout/status/1789554937199800390
“Who are those guys?” And why are there two mononyms?
UK twice-shamed: most importantly by the nul point rabble of BBC-selected Leftard riffraff who don’t represent anyone except the poisonous BBC.
Second, by the ‘non-binary’ airhead predictably selected for his inability to decide whether he’s Arthur or Martha (trendy!) and his sickening display designed to turn any normal person’s stomach.
and his inability to sing.
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Thank god Rika was one of the judges,I can rest easy in my bed knowing that!
Not sure why we are setting much store by what “Lord” Cameron has to say about anything. “Terrorist” seems to me a term in the eye of the beholder and I don’t know why DS or anyone else feels they need the insightful BBC to label Hamas. Why not report what is going on and as many different views as possible on it and let people make up their own minds.
I wonder if the downvote is from a Cameron fan or a BBC fan
Agreed. It’s a bit like labelling DS subscribers as “right wing conspiracy theorists.”
Back in the real world 143 countries voted for Palestinian full membership of the UN with just 9 voting against.
Interesting that you think countries’ representatives at the UN are ‘in the real world’.
I can’t see the UK or US accepting that vote.
The rest of the scum of the Earth is there so makes sense to include them: they will be quite at home wallowing in the filth of the UN midden.
Well, it’s the UN, so any sensible person knows to treat anything they say as BS until proven otherwise. Much like the dinghy invaders over here, I think all the men must identify as women and children in Gaza, according to the Gospel; Hamas 7:10-23; ”Stung by the findings of statisticians who concluded that the figures Hamas has provided on casualties in Gaza could not possibly be true, the United Nations has now halved the estimated number of women and children killed in Gaza, according to UN data published on May 6 and 8. Note as well that before the war, about 800 Gazans died each month from diseases, old age, and accidents, so in seven months of war, 5,600 of the deaths Hamas reported in Gaza had nothing to do with the war. Why on May 8 did the UN publish statistics that halved the numbers of women and children killed that the UN had put out just two days earlier? Apparently, the studies by outside statisticians, including Professor Abraham Wyner, showing the falsity of the Hamas data, had been getting considerable attention, and the UN could no longer ignore their conclusions. The UN has thus quietly revised its… Read more »
Has the world gone mad? Are we all “Like a Puppet on a String”? Can we not even have a silly little song contest without turning it into a political football? Does the sectarian clutter have to creep into all aspects of our lives? ——“Congratulations and Celebrations” to Identity Politics.
The woke suck the fun out of everything.
I miss the days before social media. It magnifies the madness.
I recall that Spain were said to have refused to give Cliff Richard any points for ‘Congratulations’ because we were arguing with them about Gibraltar at the time. Might not have been the case but clearly it’s been regarded as at least having the potential to be a political football for a long time.
I don’t watch the whole farce these days but I did ring up and vote for Israel because I’m sick of the nutjobs who shout loudest getting all the publicity. It’s difficult to get publicity for NOT going out and causing chaos (like the well behaved child at the back of the class who gets ignored while the naughty kids get the extra attention), but as soon as the silent majority get a chance, they show what they think.
The resident Misogynist Society will like this. Well, unless they have dual membership to the resident Miserable Git Association. ( Highly likely, according to my research…) ”U.S. — New research has discovered that women will throw their support behind any cause, no matter how violent and sexist, as long as they get to wear a scarf. Though researchers had posited that women would be turned off to a cause where men take videos of themselves butchering children, they were surprised to find all hesitation instantly dissipated with the chance to wear a scarf. “We really underestimated the power of a scarf,” said lead researcher Dr. Stephen Donaldson. “We could explain in graphic detail how this cause was hellbent on stripping women of basic freedoms, and they were totally on board so long as they could wear a scarf. They really, really like scarves.” According to Hamas sources, the discovery of the scarf’s power has been a key ingredient to the terrorist group’s success. “I still can’t believe it, honestly,” said terrorist Mohammed Deif. “We look directly into the camera and tell women in the West that we want to kill them or make them our sex slaves, and they cheer… Read more »
It’s gotta be a houndstooth scarf or keffiyah though, like the one *Greta was modelling so winsomely at the Eurovision protest.
It’s the latest fashion statement for braindead slogan-yellers. And so versatile. Can be worn high round the neck, over the head (pretend hijab) and covering everything but the eyes in order to give the impression of being a real terrorist even if you’re just Nellie Nobody. Terrorists are the new super-heroes and rock stars rolled into one.
*She never seems to grow, does she – in stature or intellect? Always looks like a petulant kid. But there must be money in her game somehow (sugar-daddy Soros?) so maybe her bank balance is growing nicely.
Spot on Pam👌
(And it will always be a tea towel to me!)
It’s always nice to get an uptick.
Is the DS pro genocide ?
No, the DS does not support Hamas.
Happy to have cleared that up.
I’m sure ‘transmissionofflame’ can’t have been serious when saying that raping young boys and girls, beheading babies and kidnapping wheelchair-bound octogenarians shouldn’t be described as terrorism.
So ‘Glasshalffull’ what are the borders of this Palestinian state you want created? Who will govern it? Hamas, PA, Iran?
I voted for the UK
It was a good song too, well performed in such difficult circumstances.