"Guys please, can you just ignore the dead children for one minute? They're already dead, it's not like they care anyway.

We're trying to make money here and your empathy for your fellow human beings is just mucking it all up. Please, please try to follow the apolitical rules we laid out and for the duration of the show and just stfu and give us money ok ? That's all we want. Bring the money and leave your messy politics at home. Your complaining makes other people not want to give us more money.

Remember why we're doing this. For culture and money. But mostly money. Thanks!"

Understatement of the year -

“Politics does influence the [Eurovision] event from time to time,”

• Paul Jordan, May 2024

Inspired by an Israeli perspective of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel and its emotional aftermath on Israelis according to Golan and its songwriters, it is set to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.

Genocide perpetrators are allowed to participate with explicit propaganda. Everyone else is forbidden from even alluding to the crime. Absolute scum would be better off below the soil.

Worth nothing that the artist in question was born in Sweden to Palestinian parents and wore a scarf given to him by his Palestinian dad.

I’m honestly glad that Eurovision is totally irrelevant in 90% of the world.

Eurovision is and has always been political. They're talking out of their asses. Also why the fuck is Israel in it? Australia I kinda get but those fucktard cultists over in Israel have built their whole identity on not being European.

Picking any side there is political and they've choosen the participation of one over a little sign of another.

So I guess we're not free to wear what we want now...

Cultural Genocide vision.

I'll add Eric Saade's own response

Den sjalen fick jag av min pappa som liten grabb, för att aldrig glömma var familjen kommer ifrån. Då visste jag inte att den en dag skulle kallas 'politisk symbol'. Det är som att kalla Dalahästen för politisk symbol. I mina ögon är det bara rasism. Jag ville bara vara inkluderande och bära något som är äkta för mig – men EBU verkar tycka att min etnicitet är kontroversiell. Det säger ingenting om mig, men allting om dem. Jag säger som årets ESC-slogan: United by music”.

Translated;

I got that shawl from my father as a little boy, to never forget where the family comes from. I didn't know then that it would one day be called a 'political symbol'. It's like calling the Dala horse a political symbol. In my eyes, that's just racism. I just wanted to be inclusive and wear something authentic to me – but the EBU seems to find my ethnicity controversial. It says nothing about me, but everything about them. I say as this year's ESC slogan: United by music”.

And yet Russia is excluded.

Second semifinals are today and I kinda hope there will be a riot going on in Malmö. Or at least make sure the EBU has to make more statements tomorrow

‘yahuvision

Yeah. "Apolotical" bull fucking shit. If you look at 99% of eurovision songs, you'll see that's what they want - art without voice, a sort of generic smoothover that's is too afraid to even hint at a belief