{"id":625050,"date":"2026-09-23T15:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/625050\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:30:14","slug":"norwegian-broadcaster-voices-concerns-over-israels-participation-in-eurovision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/625050\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian broadcaster voices concerns over Israel&#8217;s participation in Eurovision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Norway&#8217;s public broadcaster NRK has sent a letter to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) following this year&#8217;s Eurovision Song Contest, citing concerns about Israel&#8217;s participation and how the competition rules were applied.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">NRK&#8217;s entertainment editor Jostein Olseng confirmed the letter on Wednesday, which was first reported by Norwegian newspaper VG.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">\u201cWe send letters after each final to provide feedback on how the competition can be improved,\u201d Olseng said, according to NRK, adding that the editorial team had raised \u201cclear concerns\u201d related to Israel&#8217;s participation.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Olseng said NRK was particularly concerned about whether the contest&#8217;s voting system reflects musical preferences or could instead be influenced by national or geopolitical considerations.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">&#8220;We have come to suspect that the voting does not reflect which songs are the best, but rather which nation we support,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Olseng stressed that NRK&#8217;s position is that the rules should be applied equally to all participating countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norway&#8217;s public broadcaster NRK has sent a letter to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) following this year&#8217;s Eurovision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-625050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625050","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=625050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}