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\nYuval Raphael represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2025<\/p>\n
Three-time Eurovision winner Johnny Logan has said that Israel should not be allowed to take part in the song contest.<\/p>\n
Speaking to RT\u00c9’s This Week programme, the Irish singer-songwriter said he was “proud” of RT\u00c9’s decision not to take part in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest.<\/p>\n
“I really feel that in this case, RT\u00c9 definitely made the right decision.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think that Israel should be allowed to hide under the umbrella of the Eurovision… make it look as though, everything’s okay, business as usual, because it’s not.<\/p>\n
“I think most people in Ireland would agree with that.”<\/p>\n
Mr Logan welcomed the fact that the decision to withdraw was made before a song and an act was chosen.<\/p>\n
He said that Eurovision is political when necessary, citing the example of Russia being removed from the contest over its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
“When you have someone like Donald Trump describe Gaza as real estate, it’s appalling.<\/p>\n
“There has to be a point where a voice is heard. It\u2019s not okay.<\/p>\n
“They did it with Russia in the Eurovision… they say that the Eurovision is nonpolitical but the reality of it is when it is necessary it becomes political.<\/p>\n
“The Eurovision has been really good to me, but I do feel very strongly about it.”<\/p>\n
\nYuval Raphael represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2025<\/p>\n
Mr Logan said that the European Broadcasting Union should not have allowed Israel to take part in the Eurovision this year.<\/p>\n
“I think that the EBU should have made a decision regarding Israel, a decision removing them from the show and taking that decision away from individual countries.<\/p>\n
“But being as it is. I really think that what Ireland, what RT\u00c9, have done is exactly the right thing to do.<\/p>\n
“I support them 100%.”<\/p>\n
Mr Logan said he thinks Israel should be “removed” from the Eurovision this year.<\/p>\n
“And it’s not about the Israeli people, it\u2019s about the people in charge of Israel, the governments that have been making these decisions.”<\/p>\n
He added participation in the Eurovision was a relatively small issue, but added that Israel being allowed to take part “adds a kind of respectability to the way they\u2019ve behaved”.<\/p>\n
Mr Logan said other countries\u2019 broadcasters should follow suit and boycott this year\u2019s Eurovision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-time Eurovision winner Johnny Logan has said that Israel should not be allowed to take part in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-179551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}