Stolen from Mastodon.
Don’t stop boycotting, but it may be a factor in what we saw today, at the very least it’s helping the Israeli government’s advertising to be more effective. ESC really needs to do something (ideally ban Israel) because Israel has made Eurovision even more explicitly political than it was before.
It’s mad. Ireland 🇮🇪 of all places gave them 10 points in the audience vote and 7 in the jury.