Palestinian flags banned from Eurovision 2024

https://www.gp.se/kultur-noje/noje-kultur/palestinaflaggan-forbjuds-i-eurovision-arenan.404049a2-d895-5f16-8e59-1b105b4ca05a

by Burgerjon32

24 comments

  1. Google translated:

    # The Palestinian flag is banned in the Eurovision arena

    The organizer of Eurovision, EBU, bans Palestinian flags and signs with political messages or symbols inside the arena in Malmö during the competition, writes Göteborgs-Posten .

    Anyone who tries to bring a Palestinian flag or a sign with a political message will be stopped at the entrance.

    On the official Eurovision website there is information that only national flags of the participating countries are allowed inside the arena. However, there is an exception, and it is the pride flag that is also allowed. But only if it is used for non-political purposes.

    Large protests against Israel are expected during Eurovision week in Malmö.

  2. Great news!

    This is where Europe can shine, keeping traditional European values from becoming obsolete.

  3. The irony here is that Eurovision has always been political circle jerking, where all countries consistently vote for their neighbors or countries they like. Or that Ukraine won and should have hosted it while at war (I don’t know if their song was good or not, but seemed sus… and then they gave it to UK…)

    Maybe not FIFA levels, but its a bit silly

  4. Be funny to see how many make it through, more people will try now I’d imagine.

  7. Not surprised, Palestine isn’t competing so bringing that flag would be 100% political

  8. Boohoo they are scared of some flags, thank goodness this show wasn’t about political agendas-

    Oh wait.

    It’s all about political agendas.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸

  9. Oh there will be many and I hope we see some nice actions like hatari showing the Palestinian flag in Israel!

  13. haha, the free speech absolutists (aka fascists) of reddit are not actually pro free speech but are just islamophobs :))

    so let me see if I get it: in the country where Quran burnings are endorsed, waving a country flag (which last time I checked it isn’t a hate speech symbol) is banned :))) what a shitshow

    I’m gonna end this by saying that Israel is in their rights to end Hamas once and for all, and to hang Hamas leaders in a public square. 🙂

    edit: I’m pretty sure that the 2nd most waved flag would be that of Palestine, because they just made a thing and a challenge right now. it’s not the hardest thing in the world to sneak a flag past security.

  16. I don’t understand why people wish to violete the regular every year rules (nothing special with not using a non-participating country flag, get a grip), want having protests and political acts? imo these type of people are the ones who are ruining the Eurovision.

  18. We should invite Palestine to Eurovision.
    It’s crazy that Israel is competing

  19. But they didn’t decide to change the name to Jewishvision, why so contradictory?

  20. I would assume Israël and its flag is also banned?

  21. Fyi, I believe they have been banned since 2019 with all other flags of breakaway regions of competing countries (I.e. Kosovo) however this year all non competing countries flags have been banned

  22. I found [this PDF](https://coc.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/EBU-Eurovision-Songcontest-Flag-Policy-249b3214e9.pdf) online which seems to be the official flag policy of Eurovision.

    It seems pretty neutral except for the fact that they allow the rainbow flag despite it not being a national flag. I know if they banned the rainbow flag there would be riots of angry eurovision fans across Europe, overthrowing governments and starting civil wars everywhere throughout Europe. But still kind of funny how it is allowed despite there not really being a valid reasoning for it beside “people want it”.

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