Although the European Broadcasting Union, EBU, does everything so that the Eurovision Do not have political or religious messages and be neutral, as last year, so this year’s participation Israel (Due to Gaza War) creates tensions and controversy. A trivial example is the comment of Spain’s commentators.
The reason is about what the presenters who transmitted the Eurovision Second Semifinal to Spainlast Thursday, while Israel appeared with the song “New Day Will Rise”. RTVE commentators (Public Spanish Broadcasting Company) Tony Aguilar and Julia Varela referred to RTVE’s letter to EBU, calling for a discussion of Israel’s participation in Eurovision due to the war in the war in the war in the war in Gauze.
Elsewhere they also mentioned the number of dead in Gaza, which according to United Nations, exceeds 53,000, and more than 15,000 children include this report.
So EBU threatened with ‘Legal penalties’in a letter sent to Ana María Bordás, head of the Spanish delegation and future president of the Eurovision reference team.
My 12 points for RTVE commentators, who in Israel’s turn, instead of introducing ourselves to their representative, tell us about the genocide in Palestine and the more than 50 thousand children killed by the genocidal state of Israel#Eurovision2025#EurovisionRTVE pic.twitter.com/LFCz5AfHuj
– (@Hateunicorns2) May 15, 2025
EBU considered the Spanish comment violated the neutrality of the competition, As commentators’ manual prohibits political statements.
RTVE confirmed to the El País newspaper that the commentators acted “in coordination with the television station”.
Sources said the demand for respect for human rights should not be considered a political statement, at the same time that the Israeli delegation referred to the victims of Hamas’ attacks on October 7, 2023.
For this comment that set fire, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Broadcast allegedly filed a formal complaint to the EBU.