{"id":335617,"date":"2025-12-07T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335617\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:44:08","slug":"logan-says-israel-should-be-removed-from-eurovision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335617\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan says Israel should be removed from Eurovision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three-time Eurovision winner Johnny Logan has said that Israel should not be allowed to take part in the song contest.<\/p>\n

Speaking to RT\u00c9’s This Week programme, the Irish singer-songwriter said he was “proud” of RT\u00c9’s decision not to take part in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest.<\/p>\n

“I really feel that in this case, RT\u00c9 definitely made the right decision.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think that Israel should be allowed to hide under the umbrella of the Eurovision… make it look as though, everything’s okay, business as usual, because it’s not.<\/p>\n

“I think most people in Ireland would agree with that.”<\/p>\n

Mr Logan welcomed the fact that the decision to withdraw was made before a song and an act was chosen.<\/p>\n

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He said that Eurovision is political when necessary, citing the example of Russia being removed from the contest over its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

“When you have someone like Donald Trump describe Gaza as real estate, it’s appalling.<\/p>\n

“There has to be a point where a voice is heard. It\u2019s not okay.<\/p>\n

“They did it with Russia in the Eurovision… they say that the Eurovision is nonpolitical but the reality of it is when it is necessary it becomes political.<\/p>\n

“The Eurovision has been really good to me, but I do feel very strongly about it.”<\/p>\n

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\nYuval Raphael represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2025<\/p>\n

Mr Logan said that the European Broadcasting Union should not have allowed Israel to take part in the Eurovision this year.<\/p>\n

“I think that the EBU should have made a decision regarding Israel, a decision removing them from the show and taking that decision away from individual countries.<\/p>\n

“But being as it is. I really think that what Ireland, what RT\u00c9, have done is exactly the right thing to do.<\/p>\n

“I support them 100%.”<\/p>\n

Mr Logan said he thinks Israel should be “removed” from the Eurovision this year.<\/p>\n

“And it’s not about the Israeli people, it\u2019s about the people in charge of Israel, the governments that have been making these decisions.”<\/p>\n

He added participation in the Eurovision was a relatively small issue, but added that Israel being allowed to take part “adds a kind of respectability to the way they\u2019ve behaved”.<\/p>\n

Mr Logan said other countries\u2019 broadcasters should follow suit and boycott this year\u2019s Eurovision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-time Eurovision winner Johnny Logan has said that Israel should not be allowed to take part in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-335617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335617","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=335617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}