{"id":110935,"date":"2026-05-12T22:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/110935\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T22:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:44:18","slug":"protests-heard-during-israel-performance-at-eurovision-song-contest-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/110935\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests heard during Israel performance at Eurovision Song Contest semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:The Independent;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"The Independent\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"271\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2022-12\/ae90c5b0-7c98-11ed-befe-1be805a50c91.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Tue, 12 May 2026 at 9:35 pm UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"651\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_uk_the_independent_uk_182\/8330a666e60671d4c82e5b612107169d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Protests heard during Israel performance at Eurovision Song Contest semi-final<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Israel;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/israel\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Israel<\/a>\u2019s <a data-ylk=\"slk:Eurovision;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/eurovision\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Eurovision<\/a> Song Contest performance was met with audible protests during tonight\u2019s (May 12) semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the audience loudly heckled Israeli entrant Noam Bettan during the introduction to his song \u2018Michelle\u2019, shouting \u2018stop the genocide\u2019. The protest could be heard for nearly a minute into the performance before it stopped being picked up by microphones.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s participation in the 70th edition of the competition has been controversial following the ongoing war in Gaza, with broadcasters from the Netherlands, Spain, Iceland, Ireland and Slovenia refusing to air the event in opposition of Israel\u2019s involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tue, 12 May 2026 at 9:35 pm UTC Protests heard during Israel performance at Eurovision Song Contest semi-final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[37,35902],"class_list":{"0":"post-110935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-noam-bettan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116564031280208008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}