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Eurovision Broadcaster Muted Sounds of Crowd Booing and Shouting “Free Palestine!”

theintercept.com Audio Analysis: Eurovision Broadcaster Muted Sounds of Crowd Booing and Shouting “Free Palestine!”

Despite Eurovision denials, an audio analysis shows booing and a "Free Palestine!" cry during Israeli singer Eden Golan’s 2024 performance.

Despite Eurovision's denials, an analysis reveals that the broadcast silenced crowd discontent during Israeli singer Eden Golan’s performance.

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Eurovision is a farce anyways. There is no way Germans are dumb enough to vote crappy musicians that get last place every time.
- I've heard that it's because their selection process is dumb and dominated by a handful of out of touch "experts" and the public only votes in the finals.
  
  That's basically it.
  A famous example was a few years back when Electric Callboy wasn't even invited to the national finals for selecting the song because the selection committee knew they would win but "didn't feel the song was fit for radio"
  
  The song in question, it would've been glorious.
  
  Ufff, hurts to see because it would have definitely had at least a chance at winning the whole thing!
  
  They don't want to win because then they would be on the hook for hosting the event.
  There is also a satirical song about Germany always getting 0 points
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfnlkiPCVA
- We should send Böhmermann next time with "Germany 0 Points"
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfnlkiPCVA
  
  Too late. The song has to release in the year of the event.
- Hey, at least this year they didn't get last place!
- Let's just say there have been some prospective bands that tried to represent germany in the past few years, namely Electric Callboy and Feuerschwanz. Both have been disregarded by some undemocratic processes through "experts" deciding against them. So, we understand it as german broadcasters being unwilling to win, either they refuse to host the next episode of the ESC or want someone else to get that PR boost. Maybe Israhell, which is lacking any kind of positive news due to their ongoing genocide in gaza?
- Last I checked, Germany did not get last place this year and even got more points than last year.

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