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2026-05-15 Europe

A Vienna cafe offers refuge for Israel supporters as tensions brew at Eurovision

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1 Yes Australia is in.

Posted by European Conservative 2026-05-15 10:17|| 2026-05-15 10:17|| Front Page Top

2 MQ Kantine, a modern café in the city’s arty museums quarter, offered to step in.

Do they have sausages?

Posted by Skidmark 2026-05-15 10:19|| 2026-05-15 10:19|| Front Page Top

3 Israel has competed since 1973, because their public broadcaster is a member of the European public broadcasting group that puts on the thing. So are many Middle East/North Africa countries, though except for Morocco — which competed the single year Israel missed it — they have thus far refused to show up if the icky jooooooos participate, and in fact have a tradition of going to commercials or simply silencing that portion of the broadcast for their audiences when the Israeli group is performing.

Now that the Abraham Accords are a thing and Arab countries have fought against Iran with Israel, it will be very interesting to see if this particular snub continues.

Israel has won and placed a number of times, and hosted three times as well. Various countries have boycotted the contest over the years because various other countries have participated, so that nonsense is not just about Israel.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-05-15 10:31|| 2026-05-15 10:31|| Front Page Top

4 MQ Kantine is a nice location.

Posted by European Conservative 2026-05-15 11:03|| 2026-05-15 11:03|| Front Page Top

5 Want to get pissed, get pissed about Amazon and Netflix floating a rate increase to 'cover license fees to the BBC'.

Posted by swksvolFF 2026-05-15 11:08|| 2026-05-15 11:08|| Front Page Top

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