Every senior Austrian leader has now come out firmly on the side of Israel and against the weaponization of the Eurovision Contest. A handful of European countries —including the usual deplorable suspects Spain and Ireland — have threatened that they will not send contestants to the 2026 contest if an Israeli contestant is allowed to compete. Now, in response to this nauseating threat, the Austrians, who are to be the hosts in Vienna, have let it be known that if the Israeli contestant is prevented from participating, Austria will simply pull out altogether, and the Eurovision operation will have to find another city in which to held the contest. More on this heartening news can be found here: “Senior Austrian Officials Demand Withdrawal From Hosting 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if Israel Banned: Report,” by Shiryn Ghermezian, Algemeiner, October 9, 2025:
Senior members of Austria’s ruling party, the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), want the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) to refuse to host the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna next year if Israel is excluded from the competition, according to a local news outlet.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which organizes the Eurovision, will hold a private vote online in mid-November to decide whether Israel’s broadcaster Kan should be banned from next year’s song contest because of Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
The next Eurovision is scheduled to take place in May 2026 in Vienna. Several countries have already expressed support for a boycott of Israel from the competition and even threatened to pull out of the contest if the Jewish state is not barred, including Ireland, Spain, and The Netherlands.
ÖVP Chancellor Christian Stocker and State Secretary Alexander Pröll are supposedly behind-the-scenes trying to pressure both the ORF and the city of Vienna to withdraw hosting duties for the song contest if the EBU votes in support of boycotting Israel, according to the local publication OE24.
“It is impossible that exactly we should forbid a Jewish artist to come to Vienna,” an ÖVP representative told OE24. The news outlet added that if the ORF drops out of the Eurovision, it would have to pay a fine of up to 40 million euros (more than $46 million) to the new host city….
After those firm remarks by virtually all of the senior political figures in Austria, expressing their solidarity with Israel, it is clear that if the EBU votes to keep Israel out of the 2026 contest, not only will Austria not take part (and many other countries, including Italy, Germany, the UK, and France), but it will demand that the Eurovision contest be moved out of Vienna and put on elsewhere. The EBU, aware of what a mess that would make, will likely decide in the end not to keep Israel out of the contest. Too much is at stake. And no one at the EBU at this point wants to say “Goodnight, Vienna.” A clear win for Israel, against those who wish it ill.
Big Dude says
But there is a ceasefire
Let Spain and Ireland and Netherlands rot
Hopefully they all get the karma due them
You can take your country and shove it
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Good for Austria. Only a stupid country would junk such a major event that draws major economic activity in and around the city. Not to mention the fines they’d have to pay if they dropped out
How exactly does Netherlands express this view, when the PVV is still one of their ruling parties?
Luchtpint says
The PVV is not ruling by a long shot. The other parties in the coalition are buckling under the pressure of the moonbat-infested officialdom and the politicized judiciary : they try to keep a stranglehold on the executive power of the government, making it prostrate to the Holy Cow of PC, just like the Democrats tried to do in the USA. That’s basically why the Netherlands are having new elections on 29 October 2025.
All because Wilders has had enough of this shit.
skeptiker says
Sanchez, ein würdiger Nachfolger von Franco, bleibt der Tradition des Sozialismus treu. So ein GUTER.
Winston 101 says
Didn’t Vienna, Austria, host an event, with an assist from Poland’s Jan Sobieski, in 1683?
I seem to remember hearing something to that effect.
Hopefully, Vienna will hold fast against the current onslaught.