Congratulations to Netta

[Boiler 46,013]

A worth winner. I miss Terry.

[OriZ 3,157]

Terrible song tbh. Then again the bar is set very low in this competition

[MacUK 983]

4 hours ago, Boiler said:

A worth winner. I miss Terry.

It was always worth watching at the end of the night, after the painful "music" has finished, just to hear Sir Terry ranting about the political voting after he's had a skinful of the local adult beverages 😎

[OriZ 3,157]

[Boiler 46,013]

 

[OriZ 3,157]

I am actually surprised she was able to win in such a politics-filled competition, but it didn't take long for this:

 

Eurovision winner Charlie McGettigan has called for Ireland to boycott next year’s contest if it is to be held in Israel.  “I think the people who organise the Eurovision should make a statement by not having the Eurovision in Jerusalem next year, that they should have it somewhere else,” McGettigan told Joe Duffy on RTÉ Radio 1 yesterday.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin believes Ireland should boycott the Eurovision Song Contest in 2019. Sinn Fein councillor Micheal Mac Donncha feels entering next year’s competition – which will be held in Israel – would be appropriate because of the country’s ongoing conflict with Palestine.

Councillor Mac Donncha was recently banned from entering the Middle Eastern country after attending a conference in Ramallah at the invitation of the Palestinian Authority. At the time, the Israeli embassy in Dublin accused Mac Donncha and Dublin City Council of “waging a campaign of hatred and discrimination” against them.

More than 18,000 people have signed a petition calling for Iceland to boycott next year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Israel, citing human rights violations against Palestinian people. The petition, started by developer Árni Steingrímur Sigurðsson, calls on national broadcaster RUV to withdraw Iceland from the contest.

With more than 18,000 signatures by Wednesday afternoon, the petition argues that “in view of the human rights abuses of Israel against the Palestinian people, it is morally indefensible to engage in a glamorous event like the Eurovision.”

 

https://oikotimes.com/eurovision-2019-🇮🇱-political-hypocricy-fronted-in-ireland-and-iceland/

[Boiler 46,013]

Glamorous?

 

Of course there is pretty much no country that somebody would not want to boycott.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

3 hours ago, Boiler said:

Glamorous?

 

Of course there is pretty much no country that somebody would not want to boycott.

I have been in boycott mode on Lichtenstein for some time 

[OriZ 3,157]

Netherlands' Jewish community and pro-Israel organizations are fuming over an anti-Israeli parody of Netta Barzilai's "Toy" broadcast Saturday during a popular TV-show aired on a public broadcasting channel, which some say contained anti-Semitic overtones.
 

Performing her rendition of the Israeli winner's Eurovision Song Contest song, the comedian Sanne Wallis de Vries implied during her version on her new show that the US’s opening of its new embassy in Jerusalem was yet another way to make money.
 

De Vries sung the chorus against a background of recent violence on the Gaza border during riots that were held the same day as the embassy’s opening. Other images also featured in the background, with the upbeat song contrasting with images of Israel’s security barrier, IDF vehicles and scenes from last week’s deadly riots on the Gaza border.
 

In the parody, the words of the song, which focus on female empowerment, were changed to:

 

Look at me, I am such a cute country,
World leaders all eat out of my hand

I make all fires disappear with a kiss,

We are having a party, you wanna come?

Soon in the Al-Aqsa mosque, which will soon be empty

From Haifa to the Dead Sea, there is kosher food and drink

So come and dance with me.

 

Is your country surrounded by rock-throwers?
Build walls like Trump dreams about at night and fire rockets at them

 

Look how wonderfully I fire explosives
Again, Israel is winning

70 years of this celebration is continuing, look how wonderful it is.

 

I won’t allow Palestinians to enter
I am a tough dog who chases Palestinians

This is my party and this is my time to shine

 

Was your party ruined by extremists?
Open another embassy and make more dollars and cents.

Replacing the trademark chicken-clucking during the chorus of Netta’s original song, de Vries inserts: “with your ka-ching, ka-ching and your ping-a-ping, with your dollars and cents and your funds, with your ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching.”
 

The Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, (CIDI), a pro-Israel organization, accused de Vries of anti-Semitism by evoking traditional anti-Jewish prejudices by associating Jews with money in the song.

 

The parody also aroused criticism on social media in Holland for the mingling of political and non-political issues.

Following the skit, the organization's members confronted the comedian on Twitter and wrote: “Hi Sanne, we heard your parody and the Israeli song at the Eurovision with the jokes about Jews and money. How funny!”

 

Other Dutch Twitter users expressed their disgust for the comedian in less sarcastic terms. “You’re a disgusting person,” wrote one of the people after the performance. “Now you have really been exposed,” wrote another. “You don’t have the courage to condemn Islam.”
 

“Is this what my taxes go on?” one enraged Twitter user asked. “Once again anti-Semitism has returned to the mainstream! How sad,” another complained.

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5267647,00.html

 

Edited May 23, 2018 by OriZ

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On 5/12/2018 at 8:12 PM, Boiler said:

A worth winner. I miss Terry.

Can't be true, Europe is far to anti-Semitic to vote for a Israel entry. Must be fake news