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The Irish state broadcaster RTÉ has said it will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest "if the participation of Israel goes ahead".

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[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

This confused me too, but I recently there's a thing called the European broadcasting area. There are quite a few non-European countries that are eligible, but choose not to compete (such as many of the countries neighbouring Israel)