Goodbye Israel…Maybe

Israel has withdrawn from the Eurovision Song Contest this year. this would normally be cause for great upset, but not with Israel. “Withdrawing” from Eurovision is quite common for Israel, and most of the time it is just empty threats.

Most of you should have been Eurovision fans for long enough to understand that this is exactly how Israeli internal politics works. These empty threats of withdrawal are no different than the empty threats of withdrawal made in 2017 as well as by MBD himself just a month ago.

— Jack Lawson (@jackhlawson) April 12, 2022

This is actually the second time that Israel has threatened withdraw this year. Many have pointed out that the withdraw doesn’t even make sense due to the fact that all countries filmed “Live-on-tape” performances just in case they couldn’t physically attend. Since Israel’s withdraw is due to lack of security, why not just send the Live-on-tape? more damningly, Israel has not discussed the withdraw with the ebu, meaning they have not actually withdrawn yet.

Eurovision 2022 without Russia and Israel. Nature is healing. The sun shines. Flourishing.

— luuktelk 🇱🇹🇬🇷🇮🇹 (@escluuk) April 12, 2022

Some are excited about the withdraw. fans have been calling for countries that violate Eurovision’s message of peace to be cast out of the contest. due to Israel’s assault on Palestine, their withdraw has been a quite heated topic. With both Russia and Israel out, many fans have now turned their eye to Azerbaijan, the turkey backed country that is at war with Armenia.