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It’s Time for Israel to Leave Eurovision — For Good

by Ram ben Ze’ev


It’s Time for Israel to Leave Eurovision — For Good
It’s Time for Israel to Leave Eurovision — For Good

Let’s start with the obvious: Israel is not in Europe.


Not geographically, not politically, not culturally.


We are the People of Israel, living in the Land of Israel — not just another member of some continental club whose lines were drawn without us in mind.


And yet, year after year, we dress ourselves up and board the plane to participate in a song contest that has long since revealed its true nature — not a celebration of music, but a platform for posturing, for virtue-signalling, and increasingly, for blatant anti-Israel sentiment.


This year’s spectacle was the last straw.


While Israel’s contestant was on stage — singing, performing, doing exactly what Eurovision claims to celebrate — the audience filled with protesters waving the terrorists’ flag tried to shout her down. Let that sink in. A Jewish woman singing on a European stage — not even a hundred years after the Shoah — and the European crowd is waving the flag of those who raped, murdered, and beheaded our people on 7 October 2023.


One of the countries broadcasting the performance cut the live feed entirely, replacing it with a black screen and some sanctimonious message about “human rights.” A message devoid of context, devoid of truth, and deafeningly silent about the 1,200 Israelis murdered, the women and girls raped, the children slaughtered, beheaded, and burned during the massacre of 7 October 2023 — and the thousands of Jews who have been murdered globally since 2005, when Israel, in good faith, traded Gaza for peace in a deal the terrorists never intended to honour.


Eurovision is no longer about unity. It is no longer about music. It is about signalling allegiance to the trends of the Nations — and today, that means vilifying Israel.


We are not commanded to join every gathering of the Nations. We are not obligated to subject ourselves to public shaming under the guise of multiculturalism. We are not meant to trade our dignity for applause.


We are commanded to be אור לגויים (or la’goyim — a light unto the nations). But nowhere in Torah does it say we must place ourselves in a position where that light will be spat on, mocked, or extinguished.


There is no Kiddush HaShem in begging for inclusion in a contest that has made clear we are not wanted. There is no honour in entertaining those who only wish to see us silenced.


Let Israel sing, yes — but on our own stages, in our own language, for our own people, and for those among the Nations who seek truth rather than trend. Let us create beauty without giving the Nations a global opportunity to mock, jeer, and desecrate.


We can lead with light — but we do not need Eurovision to do so.


It’s time to go home.


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