{"id":275183,"date":"2025-11-21T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275183\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:52:08","slug":"eurovision-song-contest-changes-rules-after-israel-voting-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275183\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision Song Contest changes rules after Israel voting controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A vote on Israel&#8217;s participation had been due to take place in November, but the European Broadcasting Union, organisers of the annual contest, cancelled it due to &#8220;recent developments in the Middle East&#8221;, including the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said at the time that Israel&#8217;s participation would instead be discussed at an in-person meeting in December, but it is not yet clear if a vote will still take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Green said broadcasters and their artists participate, not governments, and it was important to &#8220;keep the geopolitics off of the stage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Austrian national broadcaster ORF, which will host the contest in 2026, has previously urged countries not to boycott the contest next year in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked if the vote would still be happening, Green said: &#8220;We very much hope this package of measures gives our members the reassurance they need to ensure Eurovision remains a neutral and impartial space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Israel came second in the most recent Eurovision Song Contest in May, with its singer Yuval Raphael receiving the largest combined public vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the addition of jury votes led to Austria&#8217;s JJ being declared the winner for his song Wasted Love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vote on Israel&#8217;s participation had been due to take place in November, but the European Broadcasting Union,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-275183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}