{"id":481143,"date":"2026-05-12T16:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/481143\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:46:17","slug":"how-israel-spent-1m-pushing-eurovision-votes-and-how-it-probably-worked-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/481143\/","title":{"rendered":"How Israel spent $1m pushing Eurovision votes \u2013 and how it probably worked – The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. How Israel spent $1m pushing Eurovision votes \u2013 and how it probably worked<\/a>  The Journal<\/li>\n
  2. Linehan objects to Father Ted episode on Eurovision night<\/a>  RTE.ie<\/li>\n
  3. Irish TV to air Father Ted instead of Eurovision final in protest against Israel\u2019s inclusion<\/a>  The Guardian<\/li>\n
  4. \u2018No one likes us, we don\u2019t care\u2019: Defiant tone in Israel as Eurovision approaches<\/a>  The Irish Times<\/li>\n
  5. \u2018I say fair enough\u2019 \u2013 what happened when I asked Israelis about Ireland\u2019s Eurovision boycott<\/a>  The Irish Independent<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Israel spent $1m pushing Eurovision votes \u2013 and how it probably worked  The Journal Linehan objects to Father…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[35956,18,117,10893,35120,19,17,71,5282,1181,210457,128,9474],"class_list":{"0":"post-481143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-boycott","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-eurovision","12":"tag-eurovision-song-contest","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-new-york-times","17":"tag-rte","18":"tag-televote","19":"tag-tv","20":"tag-voting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116562623624198991","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}