{"id":317347,"date":"2025-11-27T20:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/317347\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T20:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:37:07","slug":"spain-vows-to-boycott-eurovision-if-israel-participates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/317347\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain vows to boycott Eurovision if Israel participates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Spain officially announced this evening (Thursday) that it will boycott the upcoming Eurovision competition if Israel participates in it.<\/p>\n<p data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The announcement comes just one week before the crucial discussion on Israel&#8217;s participation in the singing competition, with Spain being considered one of the strongest and most influential countries in the competition.<\/p>\n<p data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The Spanish Broadcasting Union (RTVE) strongly criticized Israel for allegedly &#8220;systematically violating the competition rules and exploiting the event&#8217;s platform for political purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Spain&#8217;s decision to withdraw from the competition comes despite recent changes to the competition&#8217;s rules, which may affect Israel&#8217;s performance. The scoring system was altered, granting more power to the judges, who generally tend to have a less favorable stance towards Israel compared to the audience, which typically gives many votes to Israeli representatives.<\/p>\n<p data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">In Spain, it was emphasized that even if Eurovision 2026 is held under entirely different conditions, they will not participate if Israel is allowed to compete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain officially announced this evening (Thursday) that it will boycott the upcoming Eurovision competition if Israel participates in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[162810,88,97820,3662,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-317347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bds","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-eurovision","11":"tag-spain","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}