It seems as if my update yesterday never left… so here I send it once again. Fingers crossed.
Dear GLOBAL family!
I looked thru the name lists and realized it´s not only Europe that commits to this cause, but also people from Japan, Canada, USA and Australia! Thank you all for using your voice and time to adress this.
Now to the real news.
I´ve finally figured out the e-mail adress to get in contact with ESC. And I sent the same text to them as i wrote in the update yesterday.
Their response is copy pasted in full as you will see below...
Mondays update will include e-mail to the people I have contacted so that all of you 1700+ will have the possibility to respond to what they have to say.
"Dear Lotta,
Please find a response to your email from the EBU below.
“The Eurovision Song Contest is a competition for public service broadcasters from across Europe and the Middle East who are Members of the European Broadcasting Union. It is a competition for broadcasters – not governments – and the Israeli public broadcaster has participated in the Contest for 50 years.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is a member-led organization. The governing bodies of the EBU– headed by the Executive Board – represent the membership. These bodies have reviewed the participants list and agreed that the Israeli public broadcaster KAN meets all the competition rules and can participate in the Contest next year in Malmö, Sweden, alongside 36 other broadcasters.
The EBU is aligned with other international organizations, including sports unions and federations and other international bodies, that have similarly maintained their inclusive stance towards Israeli participants in major competitions at this time.
Comparisons between wars and conflicts are very complex and difficult. As a non-political media organisation, we do not make such comparisons.
In 2022, following the invasion of Ukraine, the governing bodies of the EBU decided to exclude the Russian broadcaster from the Eurovision Song Contest where they would be competing alongside our Member Suspilne Ukraine.
The Eurovision Song Contest remains a non-political event that unites audiences worldwide through music.”
Best wishes,
Communications Team"
So basically, since Palestine is not in the competition, the ESC finds that it´s ok for Genocide Israel to maintain in the competition....
Please make the world aware of this!!
I’ve made this picture for social media to make people aware of ESC’s decision.
Here is a link to the pic on the header of this update, for social media use:
#banisrael
Respectfully/Lotta