While the boycott against Israel marked the 70th Eurovision song contest this year; The Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, Iceland and Slovenia withdrew from the competition in reaction to Israel’s participation. In the fiercely competitive competition, Bulgarian representative Dara achieved great success by coming first in both the country-based voting and the audience voting. Dara, who won great admiration from the audience with her song “Bangaranga”, finished the competition in first place.
Noam Betan, the representative of Israel at the center of the discussions, ranked second after Bulgaria with his song “Michelle”, receiving a total of 343 points from the jury and the audience. SPAIN REACTED TO ISRAEL. On the other hand, Spanish state television RTVE protested the competition due to Israel’s participation in the competition and announced that it would not participate in the organization this year, and called for peace and justice for Palestine at the beginning of the competition.
While Spain did not broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest live as a reaction to Israel, it shared the message “Eurovision is a song contest, human rights are not a matter of discussion. There is no room for indifference, peace and justice for Palestine” in the minutes when the contest started. On the other hand, after the grand final last night, the results of the competition were announced: Bulgaria: Dara – 516 Israel: Noam Bettan – 343 Romania: Alexandra Căpitănescu – 296 Australia: Delta Goodrem – 287 Italy: Sal Da Vinci – 281 Finland: Linda Lampenius x Pete Parkkonen – 279 Denmark: Søren Torpegaard Lund – 243 Moldova: Satoshi – 226 Ukraine: LELÉKA – 221 Greece: Akylas – 220 France: Monroe – 158 Poland: ALICJA – 150 Albania: Alis – 145 Norway: JONAS LOVV – 134 Croatia: LELEK – 124 Czechia: Daniel Žižka – 113 Serbia: LAVINA – 90 Malta: AIDAN – 89 Cyprus: Antigoni – 75 Sweden: FELICIA – 51 Belgium: ESSYLA – 36 Lithuania: Lion Ceccah – 22 Germany: Sarah Engels – 12 Austria: COSMÓ – 6 United Kingdom: Look Mum No Computer – 1
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