Eurovision Champ Nemo To Return Trophy Over Israel's Continued Entry

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Last year's Eurovision winner has made a massive statement: Nemo, the Swiss singer-rapper who triumphed in 2024, announced on 11 December that they will return the trophy to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
48% : Spain, one of the 'Big 5' countries alongside the UK, France, Italy and Germany, said that the board of directors of their broadcaster RTVE had agreed as early as September that they would withdraw their participation in Eurovision if Israel remained part of the contest.
40% : They said this decision, shared on their Instagram account, is a sign of protest over the continued participation of Israel in the annual international singing contest.
38% : Protests demanding Israel's removal from the lineup have intensified since 2024, continuing into the 2025 competition.
35% : The EBU's decision to allow Israel to be part of the singing competition next year, despite accusations of human rights violations in Palestine, has triggered withdrawals from Spain, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Ireland and Iceland.
34% : But Israel's continued participation, during what the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry has concluded to be a genocide, shows a clear conflict between those ideals and the decisions made by the EBU,' they wrote in the post.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.