{"id":116221,"date":"2026-05-16T06:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/116221\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T06:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:11:07","slug":"spains-eurovision-boycott-over-israeli-participation-leaves-contest-fans-torn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/116221\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain&#8217;s Eurovision boycott over Israeli participation leaves contest fans torn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YP7VQ7N6DBAGJAA5ZERJIVNTM4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">MADRID \u2014 No special menu, no themed decorations and no shared suspense over which musician\u2019s flamboyant performance proves victorious.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"7PZFSCK3XNDRXEZPIQAJQQUBJ4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">For the first time in seven years, Silvia D\u00edaz won\u2019t get together with friends to watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/eurovision-song-contest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eurovision Song Contest<\/a> finals on Saturday night. Their host called off their annual gathering after Spain\u2019s public broadcaster withdrew from the festival, protesting Israel\u2019s participation over its <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">war against Hamas in Gaza<\/a> . D\u00edaz will watch on YouTube, but only if she has no other plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID \u2014 No special menu, no themed decorations and no shared suspense over which musician\u2019s flamboyant performance proves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2371,328,2093,40021,3741,197,37,40022,1494,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-116221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-eu-spain-eurovision-boycott","12":"tag-eurovision-song-contest","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-media-and-entertainment-industry","16":"tag-protests-and-demonstrations","17":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116582775683906916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116221","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=116221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}