It’s already started! Not 5 minutes after she won, the usual antisemitic (mainly leftwing corbynite, some rightwing fash-y, ofc, in case you wondered) types have come crawling out of the woodwork to cry about how “Israel shouldn’t exist as a country, yadda yadda, surely this is the one country to have ever had a fractious domestic political system, how could the european public vote to crown a …you know. You know what she is. Jewish– no wait I meant Zionist. That’ll cover it. I’m totally motivated by care for random Palestinians and not because I’m a giant piece of trash. Israel’s not even in Europe* anyway.”
If I wasn’t already supporting her because of her song, I’d be supporting her out of spite because it’s upset the racists…
*(The answer to the last question is – because if you knew your Eurovision history you’d know it was because Israel is a founder member of the EBU, you fake Eurovision fans.)
Yeah, if I had a quid for every time I saw ‘butbutbut Israel isn’t in Europe!’ I’d be loaded. Oddly enough, no-one says this about Turkey, Georgia, Armenia or Azerbaijan.
“The staging… its… its like they got in a time machine and went back to 1978. It is an instant eurovision classic. Its… its… its like a bunch of childrens television presenters got overexcited at their christmas party. Its… just… just sit back and enjoy”
– Graham Norton, actually lost for words trying to summarise Moldova
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