Switzerland may have snatched the crown, and Croatia barely clinched the popular vote, but Israel bagged top points in the televote from the highest number of countries – including the ‘rest of the world’ – at the 2024 Eurovision. Voters in the U.K. were among the 14 countries that rewarded the extraordinarily brave Eden Golan with the maximum 12 points for her performance of ‘Hurricane’. The Daily Sceptic extends our heartfelt thanks to all our readers who voted to make sure the doom goblin and her army of hate pixies didn’t win! The Times of Israel has the story.
After months of calls for Israel to be banned from the international song contest, voters in 14 different countries – out of 37 that were eligible to vote – plus those in all non-participating nations as a group, handed the most possible points, 12, to the Jewish state. Overall, Israel’s Eden Golan finished fifth out of the 25 competitors in the Eurovision grand final this year.
Ultimately, Israel got top marks from voters in Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, plus the “rest of the world” aggregate. It also got 10 points, the second-highest possible, from Albania, Austria, Cyprus, Czechia, Moldova, Slovenia and even Ireland, considered by many to be one of the most anti-Israel countries in Europe.
Overall, Israel received 323 televote points, just behind Croatia’s 337 points, and ahead of Ukraine’s 307 points from the public. Croatia got top marks from nine countries and Ukraine from seven.
Israel did notably less well in the jury votes, in which each country presents the results of a group of musical professionals. It got just 52 points there, 12th overall, prompting some Israelis to decry the snub as political. Still, the country still ended up with more jury points than the U.K., Greece, Latvia, Cyprus, Lithuania, Serbia, Spain, Austria, Georgia, Slovenia, Norway, Finland and Estonia. …
Israel’s huge televote success came as an unwelcome surprise to the activists who had been trying for months to unsuccessfully have the country barred from the contest. During the jury vote awarding portion of the competition, Israel’s representative, Maya Alkulumbre, was loudly booed by some in the audience, and some even booed each time any country awarded any points to Israel.
How did the country considered a pariah by so many over its ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza end up so popular? There’s no real way to analyse the motivations of millions of voters – and the European Broadcasting Union doesn’t reveal how many people voted – but a few trends are clear to see.
The most obvious is that the loudest voices on the internet do not necessarily represent either the overall majority or the majority of those who decide to vote in a song contest. Months of frantic hysteria on social media and Reddit forums clearly do not translate to real-life votes. …
It is also much easier to vote in support of a country than against it – if anti-Israel activists didn’t rally around one particular contestant, and especially if they boycotted the vote, then their sentiments were not going to be counted.
Golan and Israel also ironically received a boycott boost – all the attention and media coverage of the controversy provided a much higher level of exposure to the song than in normal years. Some voters were also likely part of the backlash of those turned off by the pariah treatment given to the 20 year-old Golan by fans, Eurovision bloggers and even her fellow contestants.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: David Cameron has launched a stunning rebuke at the BBC for not labelling Hamas as ‘terrorists’.
Stop Press 2: Rent-a-protester Greta Thunberg was hauled away by cops as pro-Palestine demonstrators clashed with armed riot police outside the Eurovision final venue.
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Quickie update from Joel Smalley on excess deaths in Sweden. Yep, totally vindicated. And interesting comments below, including from our Elizabeth Hart, asking the same as me; why on earth did the Swedish government then urge/coerce its citizens to get a jab they demonstrably didn’t need? If they didn’t lockdown, mask up or close schools then they can’t say it was the restrictions which saved them from certain death, but get vaxxed anyway…? Makes zero sense.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/sweden-cant-explain-away-the-fact
Simple.. because it was all about getting that jab of toxins (nanotechnology) into peoples arms..
Hydrogel Interfaces for Merging Humans and Machines – MIT Research Review
I can’t answer your question…but people didn’t always act as we would hope or think…..and that what we see as totally illogical, might not have seemed so to them….??
It’s very difficult to answer…was it money?..a genuine belief they would work?….
Panic? Stupidity? Evil? Collective Insanity? An overriding sense of being seen to do something..even if it was the wrong something? Shame?
Who knows?
This is a good substack from Thorsteinn Siglaugsson….(try saying that fast ten times!! LOL!)
“The Cheerleader Who Demanded Lifelong Quarantine for the Unvaccinated Now Admits Nobody Under 50 Should Have Been VaccinatedWhat is it that prompts Dr. Stefánsson to come forward now, years after it became abundantly clear how useless the vaccines were and how dangerous to the young and healthy?”
…and again, it’s as if they know they were wrong, but just can’t get to actually admitting it wholeheartedly….
https://thorsteinn.substack.com/p/the-cheerleader-who-demanded-lifelong?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
All you need to know about Sweden in two handy graphs…
Why was Hancock not hauled over the coals at the inquiry when he proudly announced if it happened again, he’d lockdown even harder.
In essence, he stated publicly “I am a Sociopath”
I am slightly mystified by Sweden. Yes, they didn’t lockdown, but they did have huge “care home issues” in the early days (which caused them to look bad compared with other Scandinavian countries), and they did roll out the vaccines quite aggressively (with mandates, I think). Their excess death performance would have been much more understandable (to me, at least) if they had also rejected the vaccines, but they didn’t.
Any thoughts?
Hard to know for sure. There has been at least one study, covered here I think, which analysed adverse “vaccine” events by batch and found huge variations, leading the authors to think that a lot of the batches were close to a placebo. Maybe Sweden got mostly placebo batches, or maybe the vaxx is less harmful to people who had covid before they were “vaccinated”.
One thing is for sure – there won’t be any state connected body doing serious studies into all of this.
“Why was Hancock not hauled over the coals at the inquiry when he proudly announced if it happened again, he’d lockdown even harder.”
This was Handicock announcing to the Davos Deviants:
‘Gissus a job!’
Getting himself in position for the next one.
OFF TOPIC!
any chance of a private members forum for all of us at this amazing place? So we can meet chat, and become friends (or enemies)
should we wish? Toby?
Dinger, if you go to the Forums at the top of the page you’re able to private message people from there. I don’t know how a group one would be set up though.
Oh right, sorry, not up on all this stuff!
thanks mogs
I’ll give it a look
I’ve always enjoyed David Bell’s articles and I’ve always agreed with him. This is a notable exception, as he writes about how the toxic gene therapies should not be removed from the market and people should have the choice to get jabbed or not. I think they should be ditched, but it is rather a moot point anyway given that they’re not going anywhere anyway. Too many vested interests in this lucrative but proven dangerous mRNA tech for them to ever be investigated let alone ditched. Plus, if they were ever removed from the market how will the globalist psychos ever be able to say ”No jab no travel” and all the rest of the restrictions on daily life they have planned for us with the vax pass? These shots are necessary for their agenda to progress.
”Mass vaccination in this context is obviously a flawed policy. Mandating a non-transmission blocking vaccine for immune people at minimal intrinsic risk could only be driven by gross ignorance or corporate profit. The use of behavioral psychology to instill fear and the use of coercion are clearly unethical by any modern ethical standard. The many people who have lost their jobs and homes, and were publicly vilified for standing on principle and refusing to submit to such practice, have a clear right to redress. Those who committed fraud should have to answer for it. Those who abandoned the precautionary principle and informed consent should be required to justify their actions and their right to continue to practice.
None of this should remove the right of the public to make their own decisions on accessing these new genetic vaccines as a currently marketed commodity. Where expected harm clearly outweighs benefit, no medical practitioner should offer it, just as it would be inappropriate to offer Thalidomide to a pregnant woman with nausea. Where there are plausible grounds for overall benefit, if should be available as an option. These individuals can decide, based on the information available. While this group of potential beneficiaries appears diminishingly small, it remains conceivable that elderly obese diabetics with no prior Covid infection may benefit. Market forces can then decide whether the product is viable, rather than authoritarian dictates.”
https://brownstone.org/articles/theres-no-need-to-ban-these-vaccines/
I agree with you that they should be removed from the market – they are purportedly being used in animal “vaccines” and the traditional “vaccines” are being changed to mRNA technology. The stuff is everywhere.
“Why they hate cars”. I have long thought that the view of these smug idiots who tell us cars are not necessary generally live in the leafier parts of London, with everything on the doorstep, and have no concept at all about rural (or even semi-rural) living. We have one bus a week to a local town, that’s it. I would love it if there was an hourly bus to our nearest shopping centre ten miles away, but no bus company would run it because there’s no money in it. In fact, bus services in local areas are constantly being amalgamated and withdrawn due to lack of use.
I remember, with amusement, the person who got a lift into the village for some reason, but then wanted to get out. He approached me near the bus stop (no details of bus times are displayed!) and asked how he could get a taxi. It turns out that he thought he would simply phone for an Uber. He was even more dismayed when I told him that if you want a taxi you have to, generally book it a few weeks in advance. I suggested he stuck out his thumb.
I think they might alter their views if they lived here for a bit.
“Don’t say ‘black’ – say ‘financial’.”
I think I get it:
“This is the worst bank crisis since Financial Monday.”
“The Financial Death wiped out a third of Europe.”
“Justin Trudeau often appears in financial face.”
“Come and see my new financial labrador.”
That should stop the prejudice, eh?
What about the financial box in planes? Some people are great fans of Financial Sabbath Financial seems to be a very popular colour for doors and window frames at the moment. Financial ice is a problem in winter.
Etc. etc.
Makes sense doesn’t it?
Stop that immediately Gefion.. or you’ll end up with an ether delivered financial eye..
You have a down tick! As have I. I wonder what was going in the mind of the downticker. If there is a mind….
Actually, ‘financial’ does sound like a shade Farrow and Ball would come out with.
Wow it gone dark, it’s a financial out!
I’m blinded by the snow, its a white out!
Why one rule for one?
“Don’t say ‘black’ market, say ‘illegal’ instead, Finance U.K. says”
They’ll be coming after Brilliant White next.
Space, the final frontier, is a vast illegal place full of illegal holes and…. I can hear lawsuits being busily prepared on the Enterprise. May the daftness continue…
Not to mention ‘Old English White.’
Please don’t ever mention that again…
‘Whiter than white’
‘Black spot’
‘Black mark’
‘Lily white’
‘White noise’
The list is long!
How about an illegal cab? Might be a few of them on the road. None in Bristol, though; they have to be blue.
A whiter shade of pale?
“Pink noise” is probably “problematic.”
“Nigel Farage says NatWest in ‘panic mode’ after new data request delayed”
They must have run out of printer ink!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12362697/Greens-senator-Nick-McKim-melts-climate-sceptic-politician-Matt-Canavan-Mate-shut-mouth.html
This is very funny…the Green Party Senator Nick McKim absolutely loosing his marbles over global warming….
The article isn’t behind a paywall and has the video…LOL!
This is a good video, which someone has gone to a lot of trouble to cobble together…
Showing the Democrats doing exactly what they are prosecuting and accusing Trump of doing (election interference and questioning the result)!
Someone commented that the Democrats have clear double-standards..but those are the only standards they’ve got…LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX2Ejqjz6TA
12 Minutes of Democrats Denying Election Results.
That is very amusing. And all based on the Russian collusion argument that we now know to have been a complete hoax.
I attach a link to a clip on Twitter showing a GB News interview yesterday with a US journalist called Jan Halper-Hayes, where she argues that the latest Trump indictment is a big mistake by the Dems.
“2020 election is going to be RE-LITIGATED over this..they made a huge mistake… Biden is..president of what is now the bankrupt US Corporation..that was a treaty in 1871…Sept 12th 2018 Trump created an Executive Order..specifically for the 2020 election”
https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1687361516931092480?s=20
Why the outrage? What else would one expect from the BBC? Who on earth watches their output or pays heed to their pronunciations. Me? R5 & Extra for Sport, occasional R3 (now also hugely dumbed down). Otherwise they may as well not exist. In essence, they are talking to themselves.
We junked our TV nearly 20 years ago. Not missed it for one day.
Admission. I do occasionally switch on Today. Why? To remind me why I never listen to it.
Always works.
Oddly, I’ve never heard the term ‘whitewash’ and took offence based on skin colour. I see it as completely unrelated. Perhaps I have missed a trick here and should be demanding some form of reparations?
Why isn´t Stefánsson in prison or, at least, debarred from practising medicine?
OFF TOPIC!
any chance of a private members forum for all of us at this amazing place? So we can meet chat, and become friends (or enemies)
should we wish? Toby?