{"id":438754,"date":"2025-09-20T14:47:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/438754\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T14:47:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:47:52","slug":"germany-slams-israel-boycott-eurovision-brings-nations-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/438754\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany slams Israel boycott, Eurovision \u2018brings nations together\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Germany\u2019s culture minister on Saturday slammed threats by several European countries to boycott next year\u2019s Eurovision Song Contest if Israel took part as politicising a cultural event.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Spain said this week it would boycott the world\u2019s largest live televised music event in May if Israel participates, and Ireland, Slovenia, Iceland and the Netherlands have made similar threats.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cEurovision was founded to bring nations together through music. Excluding Israel today goes against this fundamental idea and turns a celebration of understanding between peoples into a tribunal,\u201d said Wolfram Weimer in a statement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt\u2019s precisely because Eurovision was born on the ruins of war that it should not become a scene of exclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Austria, which is hosting the next Eurovision, had on Friday expressed regret over the threats.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Other countries like Belgium, Sweden and Finland are also considering a boycott and have until December to decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s culture minister on Saturday slammed threats by several European countries to boycott next year\u2019s Eurovision Song Contest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[7907,107867,1789,13658,106120,2000,299,148591,19345,769,2194,1824,835,7059,678,837,125283,1477,104,812,2600,45391],"class_list":{"0":"post-438754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-austria","9":"tag-basel","10":"tag-belgium","11":"tag-boycott","12":"tag-culture-minister","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european-broadcasting-union","16":"tag-eurovision","17":"tag-finland","18":"tag-gaza","19":"tag-germany","20":"tag-hamas","21":"tag-iceland","22":"tag-ireland","23":"tag-israel","24":"tag-malmo","25":"tag-netherlands","26":"tag-spain","27":"tag-sweden","28":"tag-switzerland","29":"tag-wolfram-weimer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115237178893596291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}