{"id":145677,"date":"2025-11-21T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/145677\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:00:09","slug":"eurovision-changes-voting-promotion-rules-as-israel-gaza-meeting-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/145677\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision Changes Voting & Promotion Rules As Israel-Gaza Meeting Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEurovision<\/a> has tightened its rules around voting and promotion ahead of a key meeting that will decide on Israel<\/a>\u2018s participation amid a boycott threat from several nations. <\/p>\n

\n\tEurovision director Martin Green<\/a> told the BBC said there had been \u201ca lot of feedback from members and our fans\u201d following the 2025 show including that there had been too much \u201cundue promotion particularly by third parties, perhaps governments, that are out of proportion of the rest of the natural promotion that you should see in the show.\u201d This followed reports that the Israeli Government Advertising Agency had paid for adverts and promoted its contestant, who came second, via state social media accounts.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith that in mind, Eurovision will now \u201cdiscourage disproportionate promotion campaigns\u2026 particularly when undertaken or supported by third parties, including governments or governmental agencies.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe contest has also tweaked its rules so that viewers are only allowed to make 10 votes, not 20, while juries will return for the semi finals to \u201cmake sure we\u2019re assuring that quality, that diversity of music,\u201d according to Green.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe news comes as the European Broadcasting Union closes in on a meeting that will decide on Israel\u2019s participation for next year. Due to the Israel-Hamas war<\/a>, Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, Iceland and the Netherlands have all said they would consider boycotting next year\u2019s contest if Israel takes part. A vote will not necessarily take place at the postponed meeting in December but Israel\u2019s participation will be discussed. Russia has been banned from competing in Eurovision since the invasion of Ukraine three years ago.<\/p>\n

\n\tAsked by the BBC if the vote would still be happening, Green appeared to pour cold water on an Israel ban, saying: \u201cWe very much hope this package of measures gives our members the reassurance they need to ensure Eurovision remains a neutral and impartial space.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking to Deadline several months back about Eurovision\u2019s global expansion, Green said Eurovision is \u201cnot immune to what\u2019s going on in the world, and neither should we be,\u201d before adding: \u201cBut I do think there is a place, particularly in sport and entertainment, for major events that seek, momentarily, to sit to one side. There has to be a space where we can come together and just enjoy ourselves, but also, more seriously, to paint a picture of a world as it could be, rather than as it is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eurovision has tightened its rules around voting and promotion ahead of a key meeting that will decide on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[89165,10495,10570,85,46,61,89166,43],"class_list":["post-145677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-europen-broadcasting-union","tag-eurovision","tag-eurovision-song-contest","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-martin-green","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}