{"id":166945,"date":"2025-05-08T05:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T05:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/eurovision-former-contestants-ask-for-israel-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T05:36:09","slug":"eurovision-former-contestants-ask-for-israel-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/eurovision-former-contestants-ask-for-israel-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision former contestants ask for Israel ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over 70 former Eurovision contestants have signed an open letter calling for Israel to be banned from this year\u2019s contest. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IpFtAHRDTN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/IpFtAHRDTN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pop Crave (@PopCrave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopCrave\/status\/1920202858445570420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">May 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>72 contestants from past editions, including Charlie McGettigan (Ireland 1994) and Salvador Sobral (Portugal 2017), of the European contest have signed an open letter requesting the exclusion of genocidal state, Israel and broadcaster KAN, from participating on Eurovision. <\/p>\n<p>Source <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/popcrave\/status\/1920202858445570420?s=46&amp;t=qfm_gOKelqYT4SDFIaZDTQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/130507777.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 70 former Eurovision contestants have signed an open letter calling for Israel to be banned from this year\u2019s contest. pic.twitter.com\/IpFtAHRDTN \u2014 Pop Crave (@PopCrave) May 7, 2025 72 contestants from past editions, including Charlie McGettigan (Ireland 1994) and Salvador Sobral (Portugal 2017), of the European contest have signed an open letter requesting the exclusion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-166945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}