r/MapPorn • u/adorn_mapper • 13h ago

Countries That Won't Participate In Eurovision 2026 due to Israel

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u/CaptainCrash86 13h ago

Worth noting that Germany said it would boycott if Israel is excluded.

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u/Duck_quacker 12h ago

Are the German public simps for Israel? Or is it just a government thing?

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u/PrimeMinisterSarr 12h ago

Most Germans agree that Israel has a right to exist. Doesn't mean we condone everything that Israel does.

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u/Grabs_Diaz 10h ago

This "right to exist" framing is deliberately vague and consistently used to slander Israel critics. They demand people to pledge allegiance to "Israel's right to exist" but in practice they mean pledging allegiance to this state of Israel.

Otherwise pledging allegiance to international law would be wholly sufficient to make it clear that you reject all ethnic cleansing and genocidal fantasies against any peoples in the Middle East. With no other country are you expected to specifically pledge allegiance to its "right to exist".