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Eurovision Follies in the Emerald Isle: Mavourneen, You’ve Gone Crazy

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Ireland is hoping to win the anti-Israel competition — its nearest European rival is Spain, coming up fast on the outside with Pedro Sanchez wishing that he might have a nuclear weapon in order to defend his country against the colonial-settler, ethnic-cleansing, genocidal state of Israel. The country of peat bogs, poetry, James Joyce, and Cruiskeen Lawn has just announced, through its state broadcaster RTE, that if Israel is allowed to take part in next year’s Eurovision contest, then Ireland will pick up its metaphoric marbles and go home. The absurd depths to which the Irish, with their current anti-Israel animus clouding their minds, have sunk, is discussed here: “Dublin won’t participate in Eurovision 2026 if Israel does, says Irish broadcaster,” Reuters, September 11, 2025:

Ireland will not take part in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest if Israel is allowed to participate, Irish broadcaster RTE says, arguing that doing so would be “unconscionable” because of the conflict in Gaza.

Israel has participated in Eurovision as a longtime member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which organizes and co-produces the annual event.

Ireland’s RTE says a number of EBU members had raised concerns about Israel’s taking part during a meeting in July.

“RTE feels that Ireland’s participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza,” the broadcaster says in a statement.

It would be “unconscionable” to take part in the Eurovision contest if an Israeli entrant is allowed? How grotesque this unmerited hysteria and hate has come. What has happened to sanity in the Emerald Isle?

And what “ongoing and appalling loss of lives” in Gaza are they talking about? As of now, of the 64,000 people in Gaza who, according to Hamas, have died, 26,000 of those were Hamas combatants, and 19,200 others died from non-combat-related causes, including accidents and diseases, over 24 months of war. Of the 2.2 million people in Gaza, then, fewer than 1% were civilians who died as a result of the war.

Those deaths are regrettable, but is it accurate to describe them as part of an “ongoing and appalling loss of lives”? And why didn’t the Irish broadcaster say anything about Hamas’ deliberate policy of embedding its men and weapons among civilians, hoping they suffer casualties that can then be exploited in anti-Israel propaganda? Nor did the Irish broadcaster take note of the tremendous efforts made by the IDF to minimize civilian casualties, by dropping millions of leaflets, sending millions of text messages, and making millions of robocalls, all in order to warn civilians of areas and buildings about to be targeted. This effort is what led West Point professor John Spencer, who has closely studied the war in Gaza, to conclude that “Israel has done more and implemented more measures to prevent civilian harm than any military in the history of urban warfare.”

“RTE is also deeply concerned by the targeted killing of journalists in Gaza, and the denial of access to international journalists to the territory, and the plight of the remaining hostages,” it adds.

The Israelis have offered evidence, including photographs of “journalists” hugging Yahya Sinwar, and Hamas’ own lists of its members that were found by the IDF in Gaza, that many of the so-called “journalists” in Gaza are, in fact, also, and mainly, Hamas operatives, and it is in that capacity that they become legitimate targets.

Does Ireland want its singers to remain in the Eurovision contest and give it their best, or does it want to pick up its marbles and go home, denying them the chance to succeed, all because an Israeli will also be singing? Do I detect a malodorous stench of antisemitism coming from the Emerald Isle? I’m afraid so. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. Or, as Flann O’Brien would put it, “namhaid a dhéanamh de do rún, do shonas a thabhairt ar do dhonas.”

Comments

  2. Wars and rumors of wars as stated bt Jesus.
    If Ireland wants to pull out of the song fest, let them. If they think that because they won’t participate because of their hatred towards Israel is going to amount to anything, let them sit it out.
    Ireland does not have enough gravitas to amount to a hill of beans!

  3. Israel should itself voluntarily leave the Eurovision song contest, and all other European cultural events. Why be a part of a club where everybody hates them? They should instead quietly develop relations w/ East Asia – the Asia east of dar ul islam

    • There are 44 countries taking part inthe Eurovision contest. Spain and Irelanx threaten to withdraw, but that leaves 42 that have not done so. And winning is the best revenge. Last year the Isaeli singer came in second, but was a runaway first in the popular vote.

      • This may be what they are afraid of – that Israel will not only participate but actually win. Ireland has not explained why this would be a problem for the Palestinian cause, when music is haram in Islam anyway, but maybe those sponsoring this mean-spirited bit of cancel culture are unaware of how spoilsport Islam is about music and poetry (which I understand the Taliban has banned).

  4. Satanic performances okay. Israel not okay. Ireland, no longer the isle of saints and scholars.

    • Ireland now populated only w/ the snakes that St Patrick tossed into the Irish Sea

  5. I don’t understand the radical shift in the Irish government’s view of Israel and Judaism but it’s unacceptable. I know some comes from the growth (surge) in Middle Eastern migration but it must be more than that.

  6. They are complaining about “civilians” being killed? Let’s just wait until the civilians being killed are the Irish by the Mohammed mob

    It’s coming, unfortunately, but we never learn about what this 1400+ “religion” always, always brings. Those things are mass murder, legal pedophilia, theft (as long as it’s from infidels) of all things like parts of other religions, land, taking credit for others’ accomplishments and saying its their own.

    They claim to from Ismael, and an Abrahamic people. There is no proof. The only reason its accepted is because they SAID SO, which is another feature of Islam – lying. They lie about everything and are supremaciststo the core. What they should do is repent and turn over some large form of reparations to all whom they wronged- which is every people, nation, and religion.

    What i say sounds harsh, but is it? How long should the world pretend and give respect to their religion? Isn’t this akin to a person who ‘identifies’ as a cat, man, woman – when clearly they are not?

    The Western world needs some badly needed therapy! If the politicians refuse to act when they know what will come, does it give them the right to expose their citizens to the wrath of Islam? No. But they do it anyway.

    I will never understand how the world continues to accept a murderous “prophet” and the war manual Quran, and their god.

    • Yes, on reparations, it is interesting that no-one talks about slavery reparations from the Ottoman and Barbary pirates slave trading – to say nothing of the Arab slave markets from which the Atlantic slave ships purchased their unfortunate “wares”.

      • You must look at the crimes of the Ottoman Empire and their simultaneous genocide of three nations and peoples in about 1917 when they fell and at the end old WWI.

        I went to ai on DuckDuckGo and they filled in the blanks. It’s free and has unlimited questions you can ask. To be honest, it definitely has a seemingly bias towards Islam. You just have to ask the right questions.

        I kept a copy of all my inquiries from AI. I encourage everyone to try it, if that interests you.

    • Ireland’s acceptance of Islam is based in ignorance of Islam’s actual doctrines. “Smiling Faces”, they just tell…..

  7. Not to put too fine a point on it, but…. F*ck Ireland! I will never, ever, set foot on that idiot-besotted island. As I’ve pointed out many times, I will look forward, with sublime schadenfreude, to the time (coming soon) when the Irish are under the heel of their beloved Muslims. Couldn’t happen to a nicer set of antisemitic scumbags.

  10. It’s not the Irish people espousing this nonsense in the main. As usual, it’s the addled so called “elites”, driven mad by leftist indoctrination at our foul universities.

  12. I always thought that Ireland was a Christian country. If thats true how can they be anti Israel and support Islam?

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