The Israeli government has affected the “collective tantrum” in Spain by Eurovision, asking to accept that the song New Day Will Rise It was good and that in Spain there are those who sympathize with Israel (the televoto gave the 12 points to the country) after leaving them out of the contest.
The person in charge of moving the message has been the spokeswoman for her embassy in Madrid, such Itzhakov, since Israel remains without ambassador to Spain for just one year, after announcing Sanchez who was going to recognize the Palestinian state.
“An Israeli artist, survivor of a brutal massacre, participates in Eurovision, is second and receives the maximum of points of the Spanish public and the reaction? A collective tantrum full of conspiracy theories and underwin anti -Semitism,” the spokeswoman denounced in a video in the social network X: “was so difficult to assume that the song was good and emotional and that there is sympathy towards Israel in Spain?”
Sanchez said on Monday that Israel should not participate in the European Song Festival. “No one put their hands to their heads when Russia’s invasion began three years ago and the exit of international competitions was required and also not participating as we have recently seen in Eurovision. Nor should Israel do it,” he said. But the organizers have responded that they are “an association of public service issuing bodies, not governments.”
That has been joined, and European public, to discuss both the participation of the country and the operation of the televoto. The Government’s partner, to add, has registered a non -law proposition in the Congress of Deputies for which the Executive urges to demand an evaluation of the Eurovision Festival, the expulsion of Israel in the contest and the re -foundation of the European Broadcasting Union (UER). Already in the second semifinal, played on Thursday, the more than 50,000 civil victims for the attacks in Gaza, of which more than 15,000 are children, according to the United Nations data mentioned in its presentation, which urged the OU to threaten.
Meanwhile, singer Yuval Raphael arrived this Monday back to Israel, where he gave a press conference to thank the support and welcome almost winner and assured that “even if she feels it as a victory, it will not be a real victory until the hostages are at home.” Raphael is one of the survivors of the terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Specifically, he was at the Nova Festival of Music when the attack occurred, but managed to hide in one of the shelters next to the bus stops in the areas near the Gaza Strip in the south of Israel. “The true message of the song is the state of Israel and how she looks towards a new day,” he said upon his grateful arrival because they chose it to convey that idea.
Digital advertising for vote
RTVE has also requested by letter, a reformulation of the contest to ensure that there is no “external interference organized by countries, as recently demonstrated”. An Uuer investigation, to which the Spanish chain belongs, has revealed that an official agency of the Israeli government carried out a digital advertising campaign.
The investigation explains that the advertising agency of the Government of Israel, which works with institutions and public companies in the country, propagated advertisements through Google products in the days prior to the final of the festival held in Basel (Switzerland). In addition, they spread instructions for the vote and created a YouTube channel that published 89 videos of the singer aimed at 35 countries, between May 6 and 16, with 8.3 million visualizations.
