When Ukraine passed Israel on the scoreboard after their televote was announced and everyone cheering still makes me emotional.

I have watched hours of youtube clips on dress rehearsal reactions and reactions to Ireland's semi final and final performance and this reaction is the only one to make me emotional. I am an Irish fan (who doesn't love the song) but your reaction is beautiful to watch. Bambi's staging is by far the best staging I have ever seen on the Eurovision stage.

This song was so robbed 🙁🙁

Bravo Nemoljupci kako ste dočekali pobjednika moglo vas se nabrojati na prste , zašto ? zato jer on nije pobjenik publike i naroda već uštogljenog žirija koji već godinama ubija eurosong dajući pobjedu nenajboljim pjesmama .

Australia in "likely Q"....in what universe 🤣

I would like to give props to Petra, she held the audience up to a standard that with a less respected host could have easaly gotten out of hand.

I am sorry you and your friends had such a bad experience in Malmo, but it sounds like you are whinging just because you did not get your way. If you are a member of the media that was in the arena, I hope you did not boo and jeer as those people should never be allowed in a Eurovision arena ever again. ESC Tom has vision during Eden performance and he remained silent, that is a more respectful way to protest. If you are sitting there telling me that being harassed by some media idiots, compares to a 20 year old young women having to think that there maybe a person in the arena with a gun who will kill me, then you have a serious problem in telling unreal threats from genuine ones. The way the delegation was treated I am not surprised that the Israeli media asked what the other contestants thought about Eden's performance. Your attempt to hide your pleasure in the voting did not work. The juries except the two who gave Eden 12 points, should be ashamed of themselves for doing the exact opposite thing that they were introduced to do, actually just vote for the performance. Anyone who thought Eden was not in the top five performances in the final (it is not a grand final because half the points come from a jury final which is a different show, one of the few things the EBU has broken, as the jury should vote for the same performance the public do), then there was something else that made them not vote for that entry. As a Eurovision insider you should be aware of why the Eurovision contest exists, it is a song contest, it is about the music. I would think that despite whatever you think of the situation, if the EBU have allowed Israel to sing, then you suck up your own point of view and embrace the artist. On this issue I personally do not think any country involved in military conflict should be allowed to enter, so I think Ukraine and Israel should not be involved in next year's contest if the situations are not different. But when a decision has been made that is final, unless you are Bambie Thug. Now here we have a women, yes I know pronouns but I am sorry she is a female human, anyway you have a they, who said when she became the Irish entry that if Israel was allowed to perform, she would pull out, well then why was she there? In Croatia we had the situation where the Dora winner said the same thing and she was true to her conviction, but Bambie Thug is so hurt by what is happening away from Malmo that she turned up and performed. The overgrown Greek entry, was such a child that she basically is not worth talking about and Joost might be a great guy but showing disrespect to Eden shows me his real nature when he does not get things his own way (and let me make it clear Europapa was my favorite song this year). Any person, delegation or official who shouted Free Palestine, of course would come under close scrutiny from not only the Israeli delegation and media but also security. On Joost's disqualification I do not know what happened but I can tell you one thing I do know. Sweden has one of the toughest legal systems when it comes to domestic violence, violence against women or harassment of women, they take those crimes extremely seriously just as Julian Assange, so even if he just verbally attacked a female production member he is in serious trouble. If found guilty he will probably just get a fine and be banned from Sweden but while most of us would say he did nothing wrong or he was justified in either shoving or trying to move the producer away, especially after agreeing to not be filmed, the Swedes may look at it differently. I am also surprised at your attitude in this video. I have a sneaking suspicion that you and other Eurovision insiders who think and acted the way that you did this season want the casual Eurovision viewer to stop watching and caring about the contest. I get the feeling that you want Eurovision all to yourselves so you can use it as a loud speaker for every cause and issue that comes along and is trendy. When Dana International won as the first transgender in 1999, everyone embraced her and she became a valued member of the Eurovision family, but it seems now that the contest is more about what can we complain about than what it was created for and that is music. You and the others who think like you better hope that the Big 5 do not start to look at the ratings and decide to withdraw because as with everything Eurovision needs money and without the Big 5 it is dead in the water, and then everyone will only have Melodiefestival and San Remo to watch, shows where the music is what the festivals are all about and, not external issues.

Eurovision fue realmente una mierda de show gracias a Ebu y su director Martin osterdahl que renuncie Esa basura

The incident happened right after Joost's performance, when he was on his way to the Green Room. He probably acted the way he did in the press conference because someone stepped all over his boundaries that evening and he lost his self control. He was hiding under the flag, didn't have his noice cancelling earbuds in. He looked exhausted and really disappointed. When a journalist asked a question about the safety of other contesters because of Eden being there, he just couldn't keep his mouth shut. "Why not?" probably was asked because he and the other contestants did not feel safe because of the behaviour of the Israeli delegation and the EBU doing nothing about that. It was a bitter hint towards the EBU. The Dutch delegation has complained twice. Second time on friday morning may 10th they put down an official, written complaint towards the EBU about the unsafe atmosphere. A few hours later Joost got suspended. I bet EBU used the incident to distract the attention to Joost Klein. People would be talking about wether he did something aweful or not and nobody would be talking about how EBU failed to keep the contestants safe.

Thanks so much for a great report Chris ❤ There were so many brilliant songs this year and Sweden really put on a great show. It's such a shame that the whole event was overshadowed by the absolute shambles it descended into. All of it could have been avoided completely if the right decision had been made before the live shows even kicked off. The EBU certainly have a lot to answer for. On a more positive note, it was lovely to see such adorable friendships bloom between a lot of artists. There are great videos of the greenroom antics and camaraderie between some of the contestants backstage which are truly heartwarming. Dancing and singing along to their fellow contestants songs. Their enthusiastic support for each other. Those videos are like a palate cleanser for a Eurovision year that left a bad taste in everybody's mouth. Thanks again and keep up the good work ❤

i agree, asking the other contestants about the israeli entry only is weird and rude and in no way in the spirit of the idea of eurovision. also i saw the video of the dutch dancer being harassed by that bully from israeli press delegation who published some more unfunny taunts, unnecessary provocations. on the other hand, there's also a video of that spanish bloke shouting "free palestine" right at eden standing only a few meters away from her at her rehearsal, misusing his press accreditation to yell at the singer, then playing victim when they take action against him. i hope one day he will find out by himself that eden golan is in no position to free palestine at all. i don't know, maybe if i would have been part of the israel delegation and getting so much open hostility and hatred right in my face from the first minute on, i would have given up much earlier to try to, as you call it, gain some kind of sympathy from those on the ground, at least not those who never left any doubt how unwelcome me and my delegation are in their eyes. that press conference after the semi had it all, hostile and disrespectful fellow contestants, a media guy from poland asking the TARGET of death threats how she thinks about bringing everybody in danger - so we are actually blaming the victim for bringing the danger and not the perpetrator? that"s wrong in so many ways. israel's song wasn't close to my favorites, it was ok but there were many songs i liked more. after watching what the singer was going through i changed my mind and voted for her only. i'm with you regarding the ebu having a mess to clean up and work on their transparency issues. but it's not all on them. there had been kind of unwelcomed participants before, but they were booed, and that's it, maybe in worst case there were withdrawels. the hostility the israeli delegation had to face has no example, from banning-campaigns to subtile and very obvious opposition to their participation after confirmation, open hatred up to death threats. the ebu did not do that, that was the fans, the media, the other delegations, the protesters outside the venue and palestine supporters all over the world. and the latest details about joost read as if he really DID get physical, so it might turn out that the ebu did very well to exclude him. we will see.

We heard the whole arena booing and you talk about an Israeli booing? Excuse me this is ridiculous- and why did you cheer for every song but not Israel?

You find it is okay to blame a 21 year old girl for the safety of this festival - really! You blame her for the bad atmosphere? Not that when she came in everyone goes silence? Oh Chris! Thug was crying because Eden qualified! She said so in Television! So they didnt want her to be there and this is her fault! I’m disgusted by your words!

No, what the Israeli delegation is doing at this point is propaganda. And I can't speak for what KAN is doing, but I looked at some articles on the Jerusalem Post (which is a propaganda outlet that is worse than Fox News, it's rather on Newsmax territory). And they weren't talking anything about music or the contest and its results, the only thing they did was propping up Eden, discounting criticism of Israel as antisemitism or personal hatred against Eden, and talking smack about people like Bambie Thug (whom they called a controversial singer. What's more controversial than a singer from a country that attacked Ukraine representing a country that is attacking Palestine) and making up rumors and libelous stuff about them and other contestants. Wnd what they're writing outside of Eurovision is high-end propaganda as well. Of course, not every Israeli media outlet is like that, and I'm pretty sure that many Israelis even dislike the Jerusalem Post. No, but Kan should be fined, if not disqualified, for their behavior. And talking something bad about contestants or a song (even if it's rather an opinion than libelous or bullying) as a commentator is wrong because you might influence other people's opinions or people won't vote for it, because they think it's not gonna make it anyway. Plus, harassing someone for their appearance or opinions is even worse than that. Not to mention the fact that they were harassing contestants and other journalists backstage. There should be consequences for that. Not to mention that their song is propaganda itself (yet, the EBU allowed it) and that they came in 2nd with the televote because they made ads everywhere, and bought more sim cards so that they could vote 60 times for Israel, and let embassies vote, etc. Maybe they even bought people for them to vote, just like Azerbaijan did until a decade ago. Yikes. And their jury votes sound sketchy as well. Yes, it also wasn't great that Eden was being booed, but booing Bambie is bad as well. Plus, most people weren't booing Eden personally (unlike Bambie's haters), but the Israeli government and its actions in Gaza. Overall, I think that it wasn't a great idea to let Israel compete. Also, double standards, you're banning Russia for their actions in Ukraine, but not Israel for their actions in Palestine?

I am dutch and what I have noticed is that we are not among the list of countries that have expressed their interest in participating next year. Normally we are there right after Eurovision is over.... That says something.

They are allowing Israel to still participate but nit Netherland

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The perfect Top 4 ♥️ (I wouldn't have particularly put them in that specific order but you already know that 😅)

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Hey everyone. Let me make some things clear.: I am not complaining about Israel's participation in this. I am upset at the atmosphere the Israeli deleegation and KAN in particular created inside the pressroom and the corridors where acts were returning from performing and Kan journalists were doorstepping artists (that was an ongoing theme). I have only witnessed the Israeli delegation broadcaster consistently asking what people thought of Israel's song and doorstepping artists from Saturday 4th onwards. It was basically all KAN and some (but not all) Israeli fan media and accredited journalists from there asking only about the Israeli song. Not one other broadcaster that I witnessed was doing that - asking about their own country's song. The other broadcasters, media, fan media were asking about personal favourites, predictions on who would win, as well as reviews .of the dress rehearsals. The Israeli commentators introduced Ireland's entry, during the first semi fnal,by saying that Bambie did not like Israel - Bambie was calling for a ceasefire, love, peace etc. and did not mention Israel by name at any point. They didnt even criticise the Israel broadcaster or Israel during their media calls. They simply called for a ceasefire. Zero direct reference to Israel. Aaaand KAN also asked viewers to send 'curses their way'. This is entirely unprofessional, against EBU rules - This is why many participants were missing from the final dress rehearsal fan parade, including Bambie, Nemo and Marina Satti (all subject to threats from Israeli broadcasters which then led to death threats to those artists'). I would also like to make clear that at no point did I boo during Israel's performances. Others did, but I won't stoop to that level. The EBU has so much to answer for for this year's debacle. It's the EBU that allowed Israel to participate in the contest this year and they should bear the brunt of the blame for everything. It's the EBU who disqualified Joost without applying the 'innocent until proven guilty' maxim. If you want to direct anger and frustration, it should be towards the EBU and not towards any delegation or artists or even content creators. So many artists (and you can read statements from many, including Ukraine, Ireland, Lithuania, Greece, Spain (broadcaster), France) to see just how much this whole shitshow affected them. Nowary was on the verge of pulling out last minute. To reiterate, this is NOT directed towards Israeli fans - this is towards the broadcaster and certain sections of the israeli media, especially those taking photos and videos without consent, an illegal offence in Sweden. For the Netherlands, we were all gutted about Joost not performing, and we wait to see the full outcome of what actually happened. Until then, all I will say is that I feel that the hypocrisy, given what the Israeli broadcaster was doing throughout the week, does not sit will with me on the information we currently have. Given my own job, I can't say more than that - I can only talk about what I saw there and report on the Malmo atmosphere

Thank you for sharing your experience, truly a lot to learn from for next year

"Oslo is cheap compared to Switzerland" 😢

Joost greeting the kids.... Slimane giving bear hug to Joost.... this is the lovely tea I am here for ❤

😅 BL is already on Spotify ahead of Taylor Swift! 1. The number of audience points won by BL is the 5th best result in the history of the ESC. So in 2024, Marko -BL won the largest number of audience votes! Nemo was only 5. 2. It NEVER happened that the jury gave only 2x12 points to the audience winner! Shameful! Despite this, BL was ranked third by the jury! 3. After the performance in the final, BL jumped to 58% on bookmakers. Nemo was, if I'm not mistaken, 5th with 12%. It NEVER happened that there was such a difference between the votes of the audience and the jury! Because the jury was influenced by some lobbies. It has NEVER happened in the history of the ESC that the 5th beat the 1st in the bookmakers who has as much as 58%! Yes, not to mention that BL beat Nema and won the ESC award for best performer! Need more proof that Nemo didn't deserve to win?

That's how it should be, a big party and fun together.

I was enjoying your channel until all this miserable behind the scenes and anti Israel stuff. I just don't want to know all this gossip and rage bating. It's all a game of he said she said rather than just talking about the songs. Not nice and not needed. Will stick with channels who just talk songs, predictions or news, not gossip or political bias.

Excellent video, very interesting point of view

What a traumatising experience for everyone. I was about to say Moroccan Oil is Israeli so I imagine alot that was happening, the EBU were turning a blind eye to. Unnfortunately, money talks. A more neutral main sponsor is definitely needed and the EBU need to look very hard at themselves and their lack of taking action. Feel very sorry for Joost. I voted for Nemo, very catchy song which made me smile.

Thanks for talking about your experience! I’m wondering in what way Luxembourg’s Tali spoke out against Joost, as I couldn’t find anything about it. Does anyone know?

Top 4 was perfect….. the only thing more perfect would have been Ireland in position 5.

Thanks!

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About EBU, what in the world happened with them??? They very willingly sold their souls to the sponsor Moroccan Oil and TikTok. This was never what Eurovision was about! They demand to have the contestants followed everywhere all the time. Not respecting personal boundaries! How is that safe? It used to be a celebration but EBU is acting like Fifa, the amount of arrogance is mindblowing. Something clearly has to change. I hope for my country (Netherlands) that we will skip a year, or more. This contest was stressfull and awfull.

I'm Dutch and I have young children. I usually don't listen to the songs before the finals, but as of weeks ago my 6 year old used his screentime to play the Europapa video on repeat. Whenever I was walking my kids to school, we'd always pass at least one child randomly singing Europapa. All the children I know love the song. I usually have music playing in my house and whenever kids were over here to play they'd ask me to play Europapa and they'd have dance parties in the house. I don't think children in this country have ever been excited about Eurovision, but Joost did it. When I told my kids on Friday morning that Joost had made it to the finals they were so excited. Then on Saturday I had to tell them he couldn't join the finals after all, because he had been in an argument. My 6 year old cried for an hour and didn't want to eat while my 4 year old just didn't understand. My point is: they didn't just punish Joost. They punished all the children (and adults too) who were so looking forward to this evening because of Joost. Not just in the Netherlands, probably in many other countries too. They should have let him perform and wait for the investigation to be concluded. If it turns out he was in the wrong, he should have been disqualified after the fact. This is what makes it feel so unfair. He was punished before we even knew all the facts. And even if a judge decides there isn't enough proof, he won't be able to perform in that final after the fact. And all of his fans, the next generation of Eurovision fans, have a bad taste in their mouth because of it.

Just here to send you some love in this rather hateful comment section. Stay safe and take care!

Is is nice to hear that story about Joost Klein making it a priority to talk to all the children.

Why you want a singer to get boo's????? Why you want it to be broadcast

Ok, I'll try to explain things as I and many other Israelis see them. Yes, people have every right to criticize Israel- that's freedom of speech, and I understand that alot of people are supporting the Palestinian side on the war. Whoever from the Israeli perspective we are fighting a war that we didn't want to wage and yet hundreds of thousands of people are calling for our distraction. So when it comes for eurovision its obviously going to be the point that we will come from. And we will be biased and be looking out for the "hate" aginst us. The only problem is that we didnt have to look alot. Booing at the live performance, tons of artists publicly speaking against Israel's participation, all of the traditional esc content creators voiding Israel's participation in the contest by ignoring the Israeli entry for as much as humanly possible, the entire thing in the press conference after the semifinal. Not to speak about all the protests and hate against Israel in Malmo in general which created very real security concerns for Eden and her team (she needed to get full security from the Israeli equivalent of the FBI) and made her isolated from the entire contest- a feeling that most Israelis felt strongly in regard to the esc. And so with this isolation there was a strong sense of "we are here to win and show them that despite all the attempts to silence us we will crush it" kinda attitude- which led to rude Israeli behavior. To clearfy, violent behavior isnt accepted and the people who cause violence should be treated equally and held accountable for their actions. But if the Israeli entry/delegation would've gotten a basic sense of respect as everyone else got they will be nice and respectful of everyone else- cause guess what we are humans, and we give back the attitude we get. The entire war situation is a whole other topic so fell free to hate the state of israel/IDF all u want but my point is still valid.

Esc 2024 was a big nazi conference?😮

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I was in Malmo too and currently trying to get over the Post Eurovision Depression :) . With that being said I felt incredibly discouraged during the final in Eurovillage seeing how many people that hate this contest and what it stands for tried to destroy it from within by voting blindly for their political preference. The vast majority of the Israel votes came from people that do not like the contest in the first place. I am not making this up, all you have to do is read the comments in the pro israel articles. Also, it was so embarrassing that the israeli vote (both popular and jury) went to a country with a singer of israeli descent. It comes to show how incapable of enjoying a show without making it about ethnicity or politics the israeli public has become. Even in the jury final while sited by Israel fans they showed absolutely no emotions during any other performance. You could see all the other Eurofans dancing and singing to all the songs regardless of their country of origin, but the 3 Israel fans by my side just looked at their phones and missed the whole show instead of enjoying it. It is just really sad to have that kind of victim mentality to the point that you spend thousands of dollars to be miserable and try to make everyone else feel just as miserable.

This is actually really sad. My fave was Croatia and i voted for them. But instead of being sad he didn't win i spend my time in celebrating that israel didn't win. I think that's how most of the fandom feels. My friend didn't want France to win, she found it boring, but when she saw rai leaked votes she was fine with anyone but israel. And especially when she heard his speach. It's sad.

I don't know what exactly happened between Joost and the camerawoman, so I am going to wait for what the judge says. De Telegraaf (the largest Dutch daily morning newspaper) is writing about what happened the following way: "The woman filed a complaint with the Swedish police a day after the incident. Klein was then interrogated and allegedly admitted that he became violent. According to Aftonbladet , Klein said he was "very stressed" by the many photographers who were too close to him. Klein allegedly became angry, raised his arm and clenched fist, and hit a camera woman. “That should not have happened,” the newspaper quotes Klein." If Joost was violent to the camerawoman, I would hold him responsible for his actions. This is why I am sitting on the fence on this one for the moment.

Thank you for this insider’s view. You basically confirmed everything I felt about how the EBU handled all the controversy. It was a fail of epic proportions. Sadly it has ruined my love for Eurovision completely, probably forever. I don’t think the Netherlands will compete in the comming years. No serious artist will want to risk their career and reputation for the EBU anymore. The broadcaster will probably not want to spend any money on it again etc etc.All thanks to the staggering hypocracy of the EBU. Sad but true.

"Israel offended by everything ashamed of nothing". I'm not an Eurovision fan, this year Eurovision took my attention because the participation of Israel. The complains that politics have nothing to do with Eurovision are a joke. The participation of Israel was per si political. Paid adds to vote for Israel everywhere, a message from Netanyahu himself to the Israeli singer... Israel took the Eurovision as a propaganda mean

Here's what the big problem was this year, and it's something we won't see a lot of pocasters say out loud, because God forbid they lose subscribers by going against the fold; This year at Eurovision, bullying a contestant was considered fair game. Because we don't approve of what her country is doing, we felt it our obligation to make the two weeks she spent in Malmo as difficult, and as uncomfortable as possible. If she's harassed, threatened, booed, ostracized..too bad. Because we don't like her country, and the most convenient way to show that was by taking out all our aggressions on her. The woman spent two weeks with bodyguards, and fearing for her life. Too bad, we hate her country, so that means she deserved spending those two weeks in absolute torment. Should anyone have stuck up for her, and said, "Hey, we can all agree that what's happening there is vile, but how does antagonizing this woman for 2 weeks help that situation? All this woman did was agree to participate in a song contest." NO WAY, WE SHOULDN'T DARE COME TO HER DEFENSE in any way. Because if anyone of us is seen being nice to her, IT MEANS WE SUPPORT ISRAEL'S WAR. Or at least that's what will BE SAID about us! And there go our FANS AND SUBSCRIBERS! No, no, the POPULAR thing is to go along with what everyone else is doing, and that's to CONTINUE BULLYING HER, while at the same time PREACHING PEACE. See, it's okay to discriminate against someone that hasn't done anything wrong, just because of where they're from. And if EVERYBODY'S doing it, we can escalate the tensions so high that the contest becomes a MISERABLE EXPERIENCE for everyone! And then we'll blame her for that. Here's the reality of the matter..Despite a barrage of complaints, Eurovision/The EBU allowed Eden Golan to participate in the contest. This means that no matter what our opinions are about it, Eden Golan had AS MUCH RIGHT to be there as anyone else. And ANYBODY who found this decision too unbearable to accept could've boycotted the contest, withdrawn from participating in it, and refused to report on it. We all had that option to walk away. But we didn't. Because actually TAKING A STAND against it would not have served our OWN personal interests . All of these outspoken armchair activists may like to see Eden gone, but they like their celebrity, their content creating, and their subscriber/fan base a lot more! When it MATTERED, and when it involved actually personally SACRIFICING something of importance, nobody budged. So all the grandstanding and mischief that went on these past two weeks, all the emblems, body paint, and nail decor antics to show solidarity, all the mockery and disrespect towards Eden as the cameras rolled amounted to nothing more than theatrics to secure GOOD PRESS.. ":Awwe, you painted your nails in a certain design, what a thoughtful and loving person you must be!" "You put a cryptic message on your forehead- God, what a brave and incredible sacrifice that was!" I would've had more respect if one contestant was filmed offering Golan a moment of simple decency and humanity. But then, doing so would've put that person's own reputation on the line once the photo went public, and they'd be condemned and ostracized by the masses as well. Let's hope all these heroic activists continue their righteous rage for a cause so important to them that displaying outright vitriol towards a song contestant seemed warranted. But my guess is that most of them stopped worrying about Gaza the moment Nemo was handed the trophy.

Croatia is the real winner ❤

Can't help it....final remark: kzbin.infoa6i6eiRBkvI

You tried to convince people that Israel should be banned by lying we saw the violence and the booing of you guys, we saw who is the evil. We see the truth. :-)

this could turn out to be a pretty important video. thumbs up for the braveness and honesty!