The Eurovision – One More Israeli Triumph Diminished, Denied and Trivialized

Norman Berdichevsky

Yuval Raphael, representing Israel, performing at Eurovision 2025 (Photo by Quejaytee – Own work, CC BY 4.0)

The remarkable achievement of the  Eurovision public vote awarding second place to the Israeli entry New Day Will Rise, performed by Yuval Raphael, a survivor of the atrocities committed by Hammas demolishes the widely held but erroneous view that Israelis have suffered a fatal loss of confidence and a dramatic loss of heart among their European supporters.

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In spite of a tsunami size campaign of vicious hate propaganda by the “usual suspects” of self styled bleeding hearts among so called European cosmopolitan Liberals, an outburst of enthusiasm from a reinvigorated Israeli public confounded the false prophets of media doom and gloom and placed Israel again on the high moral ground.

Every attempt by critics to discredit the song, the singer and the profound and moving lyrics fell flat on its face. Likewise, the sordid, crass and tasteless flights of fancy impugning, denying, and denigrating the honesty and decency of the Swiss Eurovision staff claiming they had rigged the vote and even the sound system to eliminate boos in the crowd and blocked the attempt to rush the stage and disrupt the performance as if they would not have done the same to prevent a disruption of any other performer.

They could  just as well have tried to convince the world that the entire spectacle was part of the same Jewish conspiracy that took place in Basle in 1897 – the staging of the first World Zionist Congress!  Dozens of commentaries in the international media, particularly from the so called expert judges;  Spanish, Irish, Belgian,and British sources, have since appeared on the internet all arguing that any praise of Israel is simply “divisive” whereas among among the public voters, Israel was given the highest scores in all these countries!. This is the well worn millienna old approach that can well be paraphrased by the classical Latin aphorism “Sic Semper Ignoramus”.

May 21, 2025 | 5 Comments »

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  1. Rough rewrite of lost post

    Lost post… mainly stated

    * No to negotiation with Hostage Takers… cannot possibly work with jihadists like Hamas and Fatah

    * Succour for civilians in Sinai. Egypt had irretrievably smashed up the Begin-Sadat peace formula. They built tunnels. They led Hamas into genocide on October 7.

    * Eurovision episodes have huge lessons. Israel hatred is driven by tiny minority elites. Ireland is a good example. Hatred of Israel is driven by tiny elites:

    * Church
    * Government…the bureaucracy in political parties
    * Trade union bureaucrats
    * Education establishment

    The majority of the people think mainly, by far, of the whole land being subsumed by Islamic immigration

    And Finally I saw the need for a Trotskyist party to inspire and unify using social media

    (Mostly my ideas since October 7. I note the following:

    Guerre and Shalom
    The day after the elites fell
    Substack )

  2. Norman Berdichevsky writes

    “demolishes the widely held but erroneous view that Israelis have suffered a fatal loss of confidence and a dramatic loss of heart among their European supporters. ”

    I think though it is more than just Israeli supporters but it is far more support for Israel for many reasons being a sense of fairness

    These are two young women singing their hearts out, with great visuals, about the effects of an event which is unarguable – October 7

    As they say…let the chips fall where they may

    In Ireland I watched for decades a very small group of lost hitlerites stirring up hatred for Israel and they were married to Church and Government

    Now bigger numbers of Irish people are beginning to understand how lethal for Ireland is the ideology of Islam which is being enforced on Ireland by the foreign bureaucracy of the EU

    Suddenly a young beautiful woman singing for her country is seen in a new light.

    And Israeli establishment of principles (which sadly they have only been able to do partially)

    *. The key principle never to negotiate with hostage takers
    * Find a way to protect civilians (in this case take over the southern border to all civilians to pass through until Hamas was defeated, this was something I said almost immediately following October 7 and I placed number one in importance) NB Egypt holding the barrier to even the temporary use for war of a Sinai refuge for the civilians of Gaza yes this Egypt had already abandoned that Begin-Sadat treaty…they had armed Hamas and constructed the tunnel system.

    *.Lose as few Jewish life as possible.. to live for their country not die for their country is the motto

    * Capture the ground that Hamas stands on, and hold it, is an old Brian Boru principle of war, gives a chance of retrieving the hostages. A good chance! The best chance!

    As for these countries of Europe we need to be inspired by supreme politicians like Lenin and Trotsky to win the propaganda war which is the most vital thing of all. But on a total socialist programme not ever any single issue programme. We can do this today through the unique achievement of the social media in each country.

  3. Then the only solution must be carried out. Withdraw.

    At the same time ensure that there is no ambiguity by any conscious Jew.

    Send a delegation to Russia to discuss a forever unity against Stepan Banderaism

    Oppose Levin windbag and Nazi lover

    Make Israel a Banderaism opposing land