• madjo@feddit.nl
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    8 days ago

    I ain’t watching it, because of Israels participation.

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      8 days ago

      It’s such a shame as I love the competition usually. but its such a fucking fetid weeping sore on the face of the competition that I can’t do it. pure genocide washing of a rightwing ethno fascist state. disgusting.

        • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
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          8 days ago

          They were banned. There is a whole thing about why Russia is banned while Israel is not. I don’t have the facts, but comes down to something about membership in EBU (the european broadcasting union).

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              7 days ago

              EBU membership is open to broadcasters in the ITU Europe region, which is based on telecom infrastructure (particularly the telegraph cables of the British Empire) rather than geography or politics. As such Europe is the continent + North Africa + the Levant.

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        8 days ago

        pretend to have a moral backbone while doing what you would normally be doing anyway. it’s brownie points for nothing bro!