Fair enough. But then let actual political measures do the job rather than cries for media censorship. 🤷🏼‍♂️

No. Russia has for good reasons been sanctioned and monetary transfers can not and should not be done. I am not in favor of easing that financial restriction.

So was there any transport of political ideas this year? What if there isn’t? Wouldn’t, in that case, banning an artist do more damage than help?

I’m not convinced that answering division with exclusion rather than dialog is a good idea. Claiming the artist promotes a genocide by the Israeli government not disagreeing with him is very steep. That supposed abuse of the tournament through propaganda needs more evidence in my eyes. And I wanna add: I don’t disagree that there have been genocidal statements coming from the Israeli government and other bodies involved in the conflict.

I’m so tired of this. The idea is to unite in music and not to unite through not seeing someone there. Did Israel, the USA, the Hamas, etc. commit war crimes? Most likely (leaving it to the courts to rule that). And what do we gain by excluding Israeli artist from a music competition? Nothing but moving back into the comfort zone. The artist wouldn’t even be given a chance to criticize the own government.