{"id":443455,"date":"2026-05-15T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/443455\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:56:09","slug":"eurovision-protest-in-vienna-open-to-peace-yet-rejects-shared-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/443455\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision protest in Vienna: &#8216;open to peace&#8217; yet rejects shared stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only several dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered for the event, despite organizers promoting it as a major \u201cconcert against genocide\u201d featuring dozens of artists and speakers. In one exchange with ynet Global, a protester openly admitted she could not imagine Israelis and Palestinians sharing the Eurovision stage in the future, repeatedly insisting \u201cthere\u2019s no stage for genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pro-palestinian protest Eurovision<\/p>\n<p> (Video: Roy Altman)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/facebook-s.png\" class=\"share-image\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/twitter-s.png\" class=\"share-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yet even during the conversation, contradictions emerged. Asked whether she supports peace, the protester said she is \u201copen for peace with Israel,\u201d while simultaneously rejecting the idea of Israelis and Palestinians appearing together on stage at Eurovision.<\/p>\n<p>Despite saying she did not know any Israeli Eurovision entries, the activist later admitted she liked Dana International\u2019s winning 1998 performance \u201cDiva.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As pro-Palestinian protests appear to be shrinking, Israel\u2019s chances of winning are rising. According to consensus data aggregated by ESCToday from 25 international bookmakers, Israel is currently ranked fourth in the betting odds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only several dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered for the event, despite organizers promoting it as a major \u201cconcert against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-443455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443455","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=443455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}