Yeah they’re breaking like 10 different rules to get their candidate to win. The only places Israel performed poorly in is the countries where you need to show your ID card to get a sim card.
That’s true for Austria. Austria is extremely pro-Israel, partly because many Austrians, deep down, are still proud Nazi. Still, Israel only got 7 points, not 10 or 12 like it did from Spain or Ireland.
Their government pays for phone credit to Israelis in different countries to vote unlimited times. They usually get a midling jury vote then a huge number of phone votes.
Its very easy to cheat. There isnt really an enforceable restriction against “one person = one vote”. Pro-Palestinian people were also boycotting eurovision.
don’t they go out of their way to manipulate that vote? i remember this being a thing last times the euros were doing their vision
Yeah they’re breaking like 10 different rules to get their candidate to win. The only places Israel performed poorly in is the countries where you need to show your ID card to get a sim card.
That’s true for Austria. Austria is extremely pro-Israel, partly because many Austrians, deep down, are still proud Nazi. Still, Israel only got 7 points, not 10 or 12 like it did from Spain or Ireland.
Their government pays for phone credit to Israelis in different countries to vote unlimited times. They usually get a midling jury vote then a huge number of phone votes.
Its very easy to cheat. There isnt really an enforceable restriction against “one person = one vote”. Pro-Palestinian people were also boycotting eurovision.
yeah, the “israelis” are famous for gaming the vote, even more than the usual
the evidence of that being “europeans simply can’t be that racist”
the evidence being that they don’t even try to hide stuffing the ballot box
They literally brag about it, they advertise it.
no, they are very well known for manipulating the vote, have been for years
To be fair most Europeans are still pretty antisemitic as well as racist.
There’s reasons why no one went to Israel when they hosted Eurovision, and solidarity with Palestine wasn’t it for most of them.