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Avrotros Dutch Public TV company confirmed that the Netherlands will also boycott the Eurovision Song Contest next year when Israel participates.
From this follows the Irish TV and Radio Company, what is said It doesn’t take part when Israel does “Given the constant and terrible loss of life in the newspaper.”
The next in May 2026 in Vienna will be held Eurovision Austrian singer JJ won this year After the nail finishes, which he saw it fell Israel from the pole at the very last moment.
In statement What has responded to RTé, Aurotros also said that it also could not justify the inclusion of Israel, “given the constant and serious suffering in the newspaper” and “serious erosion of the freedom of the press”.
Continued: “Human suffering, suppression of freedom of the press and political intervention disagree with the values of public broadcasting.”
The Dutch TV and Radio Company continued to quote the Israeli ban on international media from entering the destroyed gas war, as well as “many casualties among journalists”.
Friday Irish music and songwriter Phil Kulter called on the UK to leave Eurovision in 2026 when Israel participates.
BBC – UK Eurovision – still refused to comment.
Mr. Kulter said he “100% lagged behind Rté” in his decision to leave the competition, and that people in the UK and Ireland “disgusting what is happening in the newspaper.”
Coulter wrote or wrote several songs for Eurovision, including the winning song of the UK 1967 “Puppet on the Strune”, which the singer Jade Tirlwall took the choice last year.
Rté said it would make the final decision after Eurovision organizer, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), did so.
Earlier this year, more than 70 former Eurovision contestants signed a letter called for the organizers to ban Israel from the 2025 competition.
