Eurovision: Isreali contestant booed as thousands protest outside venue

Switzerland’s Nemo has won Eurovision in a triumph that caps off one of the most fraught weeks in the feel-good competition’s long history.
Israel’s Eden Golan had a mixed reception from the audience: both cheers and boos. Meanwhile, thousands of pro-Palestinian protestors gathered outside the Malmo Arena - including climate activist Greta Thunberg, who was moved on by police.
There was also major controversy when the Netherlands’ entrant, Joost Klein, was disqualified from the final at the last minute, following an incident with a Eurovision crew member.
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[@davelowe1977]

The Eurovision Political Contest where each country sends a political message and in the background they play incidental music.

[@StarSprangledBanner]

Israel support only on KZbin comments. 😭

[@Hunter-jv1ld]

Russia was banned so why not Israel? People have the right to be mad about that.

[@avacigar5502]

@@StarSprangledBanner Cope 😑

[@helenpauls1496]

@@Hunter-jv1ldAgreed. All countries at war should be banned from participating in any international events.

[@albech9659]

They are using this for more division in EU an USa to make new laws to protect the Z..isnotreal There is infiltrators like greta and other activists payed by soros

[@JobHuntingAbroad]

Finally I hear the booing as they somehow managed to drown it out during the live TV programme

[@EA_SET]

Thats the easiest part in broadcasting..

[@geoffsullivan4063]

Is Israel part of Europe now ?

[@keremozmen6929]

NEVER

[@profitmemed]

Is Australia the part of Europe?

[@profitmemed]

Or the Armenia?

[@yehoem]

Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco can also participate. I guess they are a part of Europe too then.

[@Perekipchenko]

@@profitmemed Yes, it is geographically.

[@Critic115]

"Disturbed" i think Israel's involvement is the disturbing thing

[@profitmemed]

How? Bro palastine is the one who started dhis war

[@el_chico1313]

ur presence on earth is disturbing

[@rtsbco1167]

hard to see them building such a strong DEMOCRATE country,

[@tubthump]

@@profitmemed according to the law Israel is the occupying power and Palestinians are the occupied people who have the right to resist occupation with armed struggle.

[@umjammerlammy9993]

“Israel started this war also please ignore literally everything we ever did to the Palestinians for a full 75 years before they hit back I mean attacked us”

[@dodo19961375320]

Last night in israel: let's send a text message or we will be more embarassed than we already r.

[@chrisjohnomnia]

The world is messed up.

[@jeanettelettegard6598]

Agree!

[@B_ok140]

Yeah Israel is doing terrible things

[@KarenSmith-zq4yi]

Bullies and racists were not stopped but the silent majority made it clear where they stand.

[@thorpsewinglessons5913]

@@B_ok140 The very dark one's. H...s indeed.is when the world broke.

[@isucktrustme8672]

@@B_ok140shut up loser

[@applepie8772]

Not Europe if other countries participate including us

[@rtsbco1167]

the judges were SILENCED not THE PEOPLE

[@svenniepennie4237]

The judges weren't silenced. Israel's song was mid, and it got a medium amount of points from the jury. The public voted for political reasons.

[@davidy1367]

@@svenniepennie4237 Israeli song was very good One Norvegian judge Daniel Owen already said that he gave to Israeli song last place for political reason 3 of 5 Spanish judges gave to Israel last place

[@gazzaguts8292]

Silent majority were heard last night

[@svenniepennie4237]

pretty loud majority based on the video

[@shislikben]

12 points from the Dutch people. 🇮🇱♥️🇳🇱

[@CarmelianWolf]

@@svenniepennie4237 The silent majority was heard during the votes

[@chaim5397]

@@svenniepennie4237they’re just yappers

[@svenniepennie4237]

@@chaim5397 I think they're people protesting genocide.

[@Slumbert]

The presenter sounded sad when she told huge public vote for Israel.

[@avacigar5502]

It goes against the media narrative that they have been spinning 😵‍💫

[@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304]

So much for Hamas sympathizers attempts at a boycott of Israel

[@svenniepennie4237]

@@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304 I don't sympathize with Hamas. I just don't like genocide.

[@PaganiPal]

@@svenniepennie4237that’s literally what hamas is doing aswell lol,

[@rtsbco1167]

scared

[@Palaemon907]

Isreal at EUROvision? OK, that's admitting they aren't native to the levant 😆 that they are Europeans.

[@dreamyshiki]

I feel like a lot of "drama" could have been avoided if they just listened to people not wanting Israel in Eurovision. Joost wouldnt have been disqualified as the journalist would probably not have been here. And all peace and love messages from all artists would have been shared with no problems.

[@Torontoball]

the world is a total dump

[@Southas]

rightfully

[@ronaldbeamon5564]

Israel army vs a militia with no state And we call it "war"

[@collin_mmarshall1655]

z!*n!st regime + genocide enabler vs freedom fighters.

[@afterhourscinema782]

**Israel at EuroVision** *"Oh brother...THIS GUY STINKS!!"* 😂

[@FaycalOuazine]

“Israel, after 6 months of war, should have been in another place, but it is captive to the worst leadership in its history, which competes for the worst leadership in history.” ~ Chaim Levinson, Israeli writer

[@stesrad]

They could have been in a very different place if they was not so compassionate ... They could have flattened the place in a week !

[@Gorbyrev]

Isn't it wonderful that Mr Levinson is free to write that without fear or favour. That is the legacy of Israel. Try being critical of Hamas in Gaza.

[@TimBlackwood]

​@@stesrad😂😂😂 u are funny 🍉🍉🍉🍉

[@TimBlackwood]

​@@Gorbyrev😂go back to sleep zzzzzzzzz Numpy head 🍉🍉🍉

[@ulrikepetersen7145]

@TimBlackwood nothing funny about it. Educate yourself.

[@tubthump]

I only say boos to geese

[@DavidCologne.]

a huge thanks for heroes of Europe, the real heroes the real men andwomen

[@Swefish7217]

What is danish police doing with the swedish police

[@Senz8230]

I thought the same. Had to rewind to see it again

[@ua697]

To help the Swedish police controlling the Arab mob (I suppose)

[@juliaericsson7991]

Yea the Swedish Police hired Danish and Norweigan police force, to help maintaining order and safety around the event. :)

[@schlafcomandante5662]

@@juliaericsson7991 Im Norwegian and I demand the bill sent to Israel

[@schlafcomandante5662]

@@ua697 It was to secure the other artists because of Israel.

[@brionii2952]

nice!

[@peterchaloner2877]

To Botswana with them asap.

[@GeordieJamie84]

😂

[@xskrym]

Together with the country's diamonds.

[@stream2watch]

Unironically, if the Uganda Scheme had won, instead of the "let's put them all in the Middle East" plan, then we would not have such a problem in the ME these days.

[@thorpsewinglessons5913]

Peterchaloner2877. Well said.👍

[@HandyMan125]

60 year old grandpa trynna use slang lmao

[@Javiers-gt8ou]

😱The girl 👧🏻 on the curve.😱

[@GeordieJamie84]

The girl on the nurve 😂

[@richardduggans1358]

Telegraph, try to spell. It's 'Israeli'

[@klassonder2508]

Greta, the Poster Gal for Swedish Tourism…

[@liftfan2]

On public votes alone Israel would have come second. This indicates there is huge support for Israel across Europe - at least with the silent majority.

[@tonyfincham6126]

Your proof is .?

[@stesrad]

​@@tonyfincham6126 It's pretty obvious the silent majority don't even bother but the fanatics always do if the silent majority bothered to express their opinion the narcissistic left would fade into insignificance !

[@neeleynonea]

​@@tonyfincham6126they do not have proof. They will say anything if it helps convince them of the righteousness in their support the israeli slaughter of infants and toddlers

[@stephenball-qo7ug]

@@tonyfincham6126 The public vote.

[@user-yd1ld4yc1b]

European supporting a European colony.

[@FaycalOuazine]

“The file concerning the accreditation of Israel is closed, the observer status is withdrawn from this country which is committing genocide in Palestine, Israel was not invited to this summit” ~ AZALI Assoumani President of the African Union, February 2024 Recalling that this genocidal entity had attempted a forced “intrusion” in 2023, during the previous African summit, but its delegation had been chased from the headquarters of the African Union.

[@user-McGiver]

Putin's little bitches...

[@AnilSharma-nr3wv]

Gud afternoon to all

[@EthanLomas]

And yet the democratic people of Europe voted them second 🤗

[@user-sg4ov7ng4h]

Guess why? Cause lots knew it would piss people off, the peopme voting for israel probably dont vote normally

[@avacigar5502]

And voted the UK last 😝

[@DemocritusX]

If downvotes were allowed too, they might have been 20th or so.

[@robin9740]

From the world*

[@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304]

@@avacigar5502 Thats a proud tradition. And obviously deliberate, because nobody in their right mind would seriously consider the UK's entry worthy of airtime.

[@DustinMikkelsen]

Big tough guys, shoving around a little girl, your mother's must be so proud....

[@da-zp1fv]

Disturbed no Saved yes

[@schlafcomandante5662]

Kofia - Leve Palestina, Krossa Sionismen Was song by thousands of people in the streets outside. This was the best song of The Eurovision

[@ridhobaihaqi144]

Greta again

[@ua697]

Forgot her meds

[@rtsbco1167]

this dumb embarrassing b

[@jeffreywilmer]

Europe revealing its true 1930's identity again.

[@lprice5583]

There are too many people who are caught up protesting everything and really missing out on making the world a better place by failing to put the work in on working on themselves and providing for the needs of their families and loved ones.

[@user-sg4ov7ng4h]

Protesting does help by makint changes, what about the french farmers' protest? It worked. I don't doubt all that happrn will habe some sort of consequence.

[@LYCNSK-official]

Well said. People don't see that there is a world out there to experience and that they have lives to tend to instead of protesting against everything. Can be a shame at times.

[@Tuck213]

No. These protestors have more balls than I do. They won't stand idly by as evil men burn down the world around us.

[@kajoiiinen]

So people should turn blind eye to others suffering?

[@fuhque9132]

@@kajoiiinen Yes, but they should only turn a blind eye when it comes to Palestinians being slaughtered. If they support Israel, voicing their support is of the utmost importance! - The Zionists

[@vestavind]

My belief in European democracy was restored a bit when Israel got 332 votes from the public

[@hansklok3564]

Doesnt really say much. “Pro Palestinians” cannot vote Palestine, so what does this even say? Excluding the fact, that people could also just vote for the song.

[@vestavind]

@@hansklok3564 It does say a lot

[@davelowe1977]

@@hansklok3564 lmao. It's supposed to be a song contest - the clue's in the name.

[@schlafcomandante5662]

Israel is in Asia

[@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304]

Shows the wave of anti Israeli hysteria is only effecting a small minority

[@Signalfromabove]

When was israel part of europe? Or jews part of Christendom??

[@MarcYanruw]

Come on the music isn't that bad

[@outoforbit00]

Ireland disgraced themselves.

[@frequency9969]

Based

[@ShaneWoods-nj3io]

I'm for Israel

[@JobHuntingAbroad]

nobody cares

[@Martin-qd9ok]

Timshel Israel 🙏🇮🇱🇮🇪🙏✨❤

[@blaster915]

Poor girl, alone against the world and she STILL sang. No wonder why she got so many public votes. That was brave 👏🏻

[@Krufa_]

Singing after your country continues to kill 35.000+ people and not telling any truth isn't brave. It's straight up bad. Or she's confused, probably both.

[@transylvanilla]

Not brave. There's a very good reason she's alone. Free palestine

[@Asidadas25]

BÜTÜN DÜNYA UKRAYNA'YA SAHİP ÇIKTI AMA İŞKENCE VE SOYKIRIM GÖREN MÜSLÜMANLAR OLUNCA BÜTÜN DEVLETLER SESSİZ YAZIKLAR OLSUN...

[@keremozmen6929]

FREE PALESTİNE

[@SantisandKisin]

BWAHAHA EAT SH

[@sofiabolat3473]

Free free palestine!!!

[@Mikke-G]

I laughed after seeing this. But then again it's Malmö, so most of the viewers are probably from North Africa or Mid East.

[@JustGunnarsen]

LMAO rip bozo

[@ninjiropears]

Yawwnnnnn

[@gookerbooker9579]

Hey Telegraph, how bout that UK public putting Israel first by far! Also, hey Telegraph how come nobody is hammering the point that the Swiss Winner can perform and be loved and admired in Israel, whereas if he goes to perform in the Palestinian territories he will not be welcome (to say the least).

[@vladasilva]

Yeah yeah, he will be welcomed, but only on Tel Aviv if he tries to go somewhere else no... If he wanted to go on Gaza before Israel destroyed it he could, of course if Israel permited, because the movement inside Gaza was controlled, if he wanted to go to the other territories, plagued by Israel colonizers and settlers, I believe he could, be he would be horrified and once he told the truth Israel would accuse him of being anti-Semite...

[@dominiquedominique6462]

@gookerbooker Spot on!

[@allikitos]

Of course, she wasn't promoting any weirdo or special snowflake agenda through her appearance or song. And that's what eurovision clown fest is all about. So of course she will be booed

[@stream2watch]

Hasbara is more insiduous. It goes beyond basic messaging.

[@nicelydone5800]

Hasbara literally means "to explain" unlike your taqiya.​@@stream2watch

[@RedPMD]

free free, ISRAEL!

[@ReiToriyasuSan]

Free Israel from what dumbass?

[@Xiwang_loo]

Free Palestine

[@sabahatalikhan218]

booo

[@viorelpiscanu9425]

Maybe public did not enjoy the song !? It happens all the time...

[@Ivan_762]

Full support for the Palestinian resistance 🔻🇵🇸

[@ua697]

Cheers, Ivan

[@user-McGiver]

🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@letsdothisshiat1162]

Ukraine came in 2nd, Israel came in 5th, yeah not rigged 😂

[@lunachan682]

Ukraine came 3rd.. and Croatia came 2nd

[@lunachan682]

Also israel came 11th in the jury voting

[@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304]

Israel came 5th. It received the highest number of maximum 12 point scores. Public votes. From fourteen countries. Shows those who wanted a boycott are in the minority. As were the live audience.

[@SamF-vc9gh]

Terrible people supported apartheid south africa. Just like terrible people support apartheid genocide commiters israel.

[@schlafcomandante5662]

That happens when all the fanatic Christian Zionists in Europe votes (for the first time in their life) and most of the usual Eurovision crowd boycotted the entire show

[@no_one2197]

Which is horrible imo

[@xTunafishx]

@@no_one2197 said no_one XD

[@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304]

@@no_one2197 Completely undermined the myth that pro-Hamas demonstrations have public support

[@valtameri915]

People didn't disturbed the performance booing her, Israel disturbed the Eurovision contest by being there.

[@ethanadan8678]

🇮🇱👉🚮🚮🗑️🗑️ 🇳🇱👉❤️

[@JustYaniks]

Leftie

[@elkudos6262]

What bright cookies.

[@richardmcdermid3567]

Amazing how all the "free thinking individual" sheep managed to "Baa" at once.

[@NEUTRALIZER70]

I STAND WITH ISRAEL AMEN TO OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR 👑 JESUS CHRIST 🙏🏿🇮🇱🇺🇸🇦🇺

[@user-McGiver]

M 2!

[@loukas76gr.]

But Jesus Christ was there for the poor and the helpless. Not for the powerful Pharisees...

[@JobHuntingAbroad]

Yet Jesus would be the last to stand for the Genocidal Jews.........

[@lewisbush9566]

Booing a 20 year old for singing just because she comes froms Israel. The world is a mess🤦‍♀️

[@stream2watch]

But she is still IDF, right?

[@tubthump]

She took a boo because she represents a state which the world’s highest court found to be plausibly committing genocide

[@antoniorenteria2896]

Peanuts compared to the reasons why shes being booed

[@user-McGiver]

@@stream2watch YEA PUNK!... DEFENDING ISRAEL FROM YOUR TERROR...~

[@tubthump]

@@antoniorenteria2896 yup

[@LudovicoDev]

"disturbed"like 99.9% of all theater

[@justinlucas]

All would hates Israel 😂

[@TexasVagabond]

Oh look, their boos were just as powerless as they are… 😂

[@Wasserbutz]

An this is supposed not to be antisemitic? What a disgrace.

[@dominiquedominique6462]

@Wasserbutz, Sadly, this is clearly antisemitic and I’m astonished that media (at least in Sweden and Poland, my two countries) seem to afraid to really talk about it. We still have time though, judging by massive televoting support for Israel, the majority of people do not share opinions of those who scream highest. I am not Jewish myself, nevertheless I am truly worried. Rising antisemitism should be an alarm clock for us all

[@Wasserbutz]

@@dominiquedominique6462 Yes. People want to cope with the awful situation and tend to go for easy explanations. Choosing an enemy is always the easiest one. But the situation in Israel is way more multifaceted than some people want to think.

[@dominiquedominique6462]

True

[@gerardfolan8491]

the public shouted louder isreal came 5th

[@eras6009]

but if u brought israel u should have brought russia too....eurovision means all nationalities and religions live together as one...is not trying to show the world that one flag and one religion is better then the others....

[@jenshoefer7944]

No, eurovision is hosted by the EBU, russia has been kicked out by the EBU

[@thorpsewinglessons5913]

Appalling behaviour.Eurovision was never political.used to have good clean music, not that stuff.👎🏽

[@Silvashoots]

Maybe Eurovision should just have European countries in it.

[@blackmamba4368]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@hadrianlear1215]

Not what I hurd

[@mrhat50]

Boo 👻

[@MrCarlosariasneudeck]

🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱💪💪💪💪💪

[@rtsbco1167]

who exactly they affected by protesting, eden 20, acted more mature than singers twice her age there, and didint bring one political statement, but those who doesnt live the war have alot to say, of course. 2 place by crowd, SAYS IT ALL keep barking

[@fuhque9132]

My guy, Israels first AND second song were rejected because they were too political lmao. This song wasn't their first choice. It was their THIRD. They tried multiple times to inject politics into their performance lol..

[@ShrekIsLoveShrekIsLif3]

Disgusting.

[@user-iq3tc8bf5w]

бандитов в арафатках под зад коленом и пошли они вон из европы ......

[@tashaware6819]

Очки новые купи а то от ненависти кроме своего носа ничего не видишь.

[@stream2watch]

That is not the language we use here, vatnik

[@stream2watch]

And in Tel Aviv today, thousands of Israelis are also marching against Netanyahu. What is good for the goose is good for the gander, Z ion ists.

[@ua697]

It's not unusual to demonstrate in a civilized democracy, but it must seem strange in neighboring countries, which are neither civilized nor democratic 😎

[@stream2watch]

​@@ua697 We see how civilized your settlers are, so careful about playing that card.

[@user-McGiver]

''Z'' BELONGS TO THE FASCIST RUZZIANS...!

[@user-McGiver]

@@stream2watch FREE ISRAEL FROM ARAB INVADERS!...

[@itzsamplayz6046]

This person is being booed for singing for her country. Disgusting by these people who think they can put her down

[@danielleschiazza6172]

Wow! Disgusting.

[@orkhanallakhverdiyev1029]

So, if the arabs want to create their own state, let arabs go to their historical homeland in Saudi Arabia (or to the country of the Arabian Peninsula) and there arabs will create their own state “palestine”.The indigenous population of Israel, including Samaria, Judea and Gaza, are Israelis.

[@fuhque9132]

Yeah! Lets move ALL people to the lands that they occupied over 2,000 years ago! Wait, nvm..conveniently for Israel, this standard only applies to them and not other groups like the indigenous populations of North America and Australia, for example. They can't hit the 2,000-year Reset Button, for some reason...

[@dolphinloser6546]

Wait, so the argument is that when Israel was put there by Western Europe in the 1940s and they started attacking the people who already lived in that land and had done for hundreds of years, the people who lived there should just... move house to a different country entirely? What about the Syrians, Lebanese and Jordanians - three separate arab countries that are also being bombed by Israel? Should they just leave too?

[@WORLD-DEMOCRACY-7791]

Everyone, it is a "SINGING" competition of country between country! NOT A BLOODY POLITICAL COMPETITION OF COUNTRY BETWEEN COUNTRY! Just a "singing" competition for f--k sake! God, the world is so so so sad today. So sad, where has all the humanity of joy and happiness all together amongst us all around the world gone? Even just abit will do. C'mon!!! 🙏❤️🌏☮️🫂🎼🎤🎹🎸🎙🎵🎶🎷🎺🎻🥁🪗🪘💃🕺

[@fuhque9132]

Eurovision has a very long history of being influenced by politics lol...this isn't a new thing....

[@dolphinloser6546]

I mean, Eurovision kicked Russia out a couple years ago when they started bombing Ukrainian cities and civilians. It makes sense that people want them to kick Israel out for bombing Palestinian cities and civilians too.