Eurovision 2024 He is experiencing one of his greatest “eurodramas” just starting the first semi-final. Although she came from further away (due to the warmth of the European Broadcasting Union by confirming Israel’s participation months ago after having kicked out Russia the previous year, ensuring that the festival is “apolitical”), the situation was extreme when this Tuesday Eric Saade wore a Palestinian scarf and the contest censored and criticized him.
Given such a scenario, Greater Wyoming delivery started today The intermediate reflecting on everything that happened: “Swedish singer Eric Saade, with a family of Palestinian origin, performed with a Palestinian scarf tied around his wrist. And this has unleashed enormous controversy in the contest,” she contextualized.
To continue with his usual irony: “You see what things. I don’t understand it, I thought you could bring accessories, one year we went out with a plastic guitar and it didn’t bother anyone. At least until Chikilicuatre started singing, of course.”
He added: “The European Broadcasting Union, which is responsible for the contest, has issued a statement regretting what happened and ensuring that Saade has compromised what they call the ‘apolitical character’ of the event. That is a garment that everyone wears in Palestine, it is a garment. Well, you can see that the Eurovision singers can go on stage with sequins but not with principles,” he stated.
And he added the following reflection: “It seems that with the Gaza massacre, words and actions must be measured very carefully. Today, for example, the Minister of Social Rights, Pablo Bustinduy, has sent a letter to Spanish companies working in Israel to ask them not to involuntarily collaborate with the genocide in Gaza. And he has used precisely that word: genocide. The Israeli embassy was quick to send a statement rejecting what they call the false accusation. of intellectual ministers and media that Israel is committing genocide and claim that this demonizes and incites hatred and anti-Semitism.”
After that, he drew his own conclusions: “I am not going to be the one to oppose the embassy but what demonizes Israel is not a minister’s letter, it is its intolerable actions in the Gaza Strip. Condemning this massacre is not being anti-Semitic, supporting the Palestinian people is not being on the side of terrorists. Denouncing this genocide, which has already claimed more than 30,000 lives, is not political propaganda as they claim in Eurovision, it is putting yourself on the side of the victims, against the executioners. And feel compassion for a people who are being annihilated.”
Moment in which Wyoming took a Palestinian scarf and dressed with it “Anyway, I’m going to put on this thing that’s a little cool to me. Lest we forget, these gestures are frankly necessary. I know that I am risking that this will close the doors of Eurovision for me but I was already banned for singing like an ass,” he ironized.
