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Eurovision Shows World Does Not Share Israel Haters' Bigotry
(Jewish Chronicle) Stephen Pollard - Thanks to the Jew haters of Malmo, and their supporters across social media and elsewhere, this year's Eurovision had become far more than a song contest. Israel's 20-year-old singer, Eden Golan, required an armed multi-car convoy to travel from her hotel to the competition venue. Fellow competitors demanded that Israel be barred. The haters had decided to make a song contest a proxy for their hatred of Israel. I was forced by the bigots' behavior to care deeply about the voting. And what a joy it proved to be. The haters assumed that Europe shared their bigotry and their hatred of Jews. Well, they don't. Eurovision has a public vote alongside the so-called "professional" national juries. When all the votes were tallied, Israel came second (to Croatia) in the public vote. Even in Ireland - with a public realm widely viewed by Jews as one of the most antisemitic in Europe - Israel came second. Eden Golan actually finished fifth in the contest - despite the virtue-signaling juries doing their best to keep her out of the running. Eurovision showed that a broad mass of the public understand that Israel is fighting to defeat a genocidal terrorist organization. And they support it.