{"id":215028,"date":"2025-12-04T17:27:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=215028"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:31:16","slug":"will-israel-be-allowed-to-participate-in-eurovision-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/215028\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Israel be allowed to participate in Eurovision 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eurovision Song Contest organizers will meet today and tomorrow to decide whether Israel will be allowed to participate in the 2026 contest, Euronews<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), a group of public broadcasters from 56 countries that runs the competition, is holding a general assembly, with many countries calling for Israel to be excluded over the war in Gaza and alleged interference in contest voting, following controversy this year surrounding Israel’s second-place finish.<\/p>\n

The meeting comes after anti-Israel protesters attempted to disrupt the 2024 and 2025 contests, citing their opposition to the genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Countries including Iceland, Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands, have threatened in recent months to pull out of the 2026 contest if Israel takes part.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eurovision Song Contest organizers will meet today and tomorrow to decide whether Israel will be allowed to participate in the 2026 contest, Euronews reports. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), a group of public broadcasters from 56 countries that runs the competition, is holding a general assembly, with many countries calling for Israel to be excluded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":215023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215028","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=215028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215029,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215028\/revisions\/215029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}