By the looks of it, besides Ireland (in OP), Iceland ( https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-09-09-iceland-may-not-take-p... ) and Spain ( https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2025/09/11/spain-thr... ) have also stated their intention to boycott.
Luckily spaniards are better than this and Israel took the popular vote in Eurovision and is generally esteemed and respected by decent spaniards
https://wiwibloggs.com/2025/05/23/eurovision-director-martin...
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/may/21/eurovis...
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/eurovision/...
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06/05/eurovision-fac...
We just went to the website and swiped the credit card for Israel.
Israel is currently a genocider state. Nazis were a genocider state. It's as simple as that. I am sure there were and still are many nazi-apologists, you are doing the same, but for Israel. Stop the genocide.
European left isn't giving any path to Israel to get respect, they will attack Israel no matter what they do.
No real story like shooting an unarmed civilian, waiting for relatives to come to recover the body, then shooting them too?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/09/the-gaza-famil...
Nobody with half a brain conflates Israel's government with Judaism or with the Israeli people, ... but Israel's intelligence services have for a long time had the tactic to influence people to conflate them so as to be able to deflect criticism against its state as being anti-semitism — and they have been quite successful at that.
Similarly, antisemitic groups have taken advantage of the worldwide movement against what Israel is doing in Gaza and sometimes managed to insert themselves and their message among legitimate protests. For instance, this summer an MP in my country had retweeted an image containing symbolism that she didn't understand — which caused her party to (over)react and exclude her.
I am sure that there is a lot of misleading propaganda going left and right within Israel as well.
It is important to be careful and identify things for what they are.
> there being no real story.
Ok, dude. I cannot educate you if you actively refuse to follow the news.
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/14/1233395830/ireland-pro-palest...
There are 38 million Americans who identify as Irish. Is America the Irish homeland? No, it's Ireland.
To those who say Jews are colonizers: where is the Jewish homeland?
I've heard people say Poland, where Auschwitz is, thus revealing their true colors.
Similarly the Irish are famous for being ethnically a Celtic people. The Celts originated in Hallstatt, Austria, so does that entitle any Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Scot or Welsh person to turn up and settle on the shores of the Hallstätter See?
All humans trace their origins back to Mesopotamia, can we all claim some land in Iraq too?
/s
You are being dishonest or severely brainwashed.
Ethnic groups doesn't have homelands, people born under a nation state [2] have homelands.
Israel was founded in 1948. You already know this.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel_(1948%E2%80%...
Just because activists say a thing doesn't make it true. You should make more objective factual claims instead of ambiguously defined or made up ones.
Over 65000 people were killed by the Israeli "Defense" Forces in Gaza since October 7th. 31% of them were children.
When “roughly half” of Gaza’s population “are under the age of 18,” your statistic actually describes discretion [1]. As for total kills, the data I’ve seen on CCRs put the IDF’s actions in the precedents range of guerrilla wars.
The way the IDF is conducting the war is, unfortunately, normal. What is not normal is the restriction of food, detention conditions and Netanyahu joining the Russia/China/Turkey club (along with Trump) on throwing out international law.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206897328/half-of-gazas-popu...
But sure all of them are wrong and you are right.
But many Israel supporters live in a reality distortion field where they're eternal victims and therefore can do no wrong. No amount of well documented war crimes or obvious lies from the Israeli government will make a dent, because Palestinian lives have exactly zero value to them.
6.1.1 DIRECT ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS OR INDISCRIMINATE ATTACKS It lists 15 cases of air strikes which it uses to support its claim of killing/harming members of a group which is part of the definition of genocide. However, all/nearly all of them say "Amnesty International did not find any evidence of a military objective.". So it seems possible Amnesty just doesn't know the secret military information and Israel didn't disclose it to them. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Do you believe there can't possibly have been any military objectives that make those air strikes legitimate?
[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/8668/2024/en/
Leaving aside, of course, the fact that attacking a civilian hospital, even one that has some military targets in it (say wounded combatants), would also certainly mean killing or injuring many invalid targets, and at that point you should really provide not just evidence of a military target but also evidence that you couldn't attack the target in any other way and that the target is valuable enough to justify the deaths of innocent people.
Which Israel has not done, and really, can't do. Because there really aren't many targets worth bombing a hospital for.
Hamas had bases in hospitals. Not just wounded fighters being treated. They stored weapons and housed fighters in them. They also built underground bases directly underneath hospital buildings. They specifically chose hospitals because they thought that would protect them from being attacked but it does make those hospitals a legitimate target.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67453105 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/17/idf-evidence-s...
We don't know for sure that Hind Rajab wasn't planning attacks when she was supposed to be learning the alphabet either.
Maybe she was leading a Hamas cell with a crayon, but the intelligence is too crucial to share!
This style of argument is absurd.
Killing 10,000's of women and children from a specific ethnic group, razing a significant percentage of buildings to the ground and forcibly displacing almost 2 million people while using starvation as a weapon of war, that's genocide.