{"id":183318,"date":"2025-09-12T13:08:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=183318"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:44:19","slug":"ireland-to-boycott-eurovision-2026-if-israels-participation-goes-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/183318\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland to boycott Eurovision 2026 if Israel\u2019s participation goes ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Ireland&rsquo;s participation in Eurovision 2026 would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/09\/12\/unconscionable-ireland-to-boycott-eurovision-2026-if-israel-participates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a> writes, referring to the Irish broadcaster RT&Eacute;.<\/p>\n<p>RT&Eacute; is also deeply concerned by the targeted killing of journalists in Gaza, the denial of access to international journalists to the territory, and the plight of the remaining hostages.<\/p>\n<p>This follows <a href=\"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/182636\/\">comments<\/a> made by Spanish Culture Minister Ernest Urtasun regarding Spain&rsquo;s decision to boycott Eurovision 2026.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&rsquo;s participation in Eurovision 2026 would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza, Euronews writes, referring to the Irish broadcaster RT&Eacute;. RT&Eacute; is also deeply concerned by the targeted killing of journalists in Gaza, the denial of access to international journalists to the territory, and the plight of the remaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":183283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,47,53,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-society","category-culture","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183320,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183318\/revisions\/183320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}