New Day Will Rise for Europe?

Eurovision 2025 will always be remembered as having Israel sending a Nova Festival survivor to the limelight. The contest, hosted in Basel, the same city where Herzl founded the World Zionist Organization (serving as its first president), had the honor on hosting this year’s Eurovision edition. Despite some very unpleasant incidents by so-called Palestinian “freedom fighters”, Israel came in a whopping second, its best placing since 2018, also winning the popular vote. And yes, both Israel-lovers and Israel-haters each asked themselves, considering the dire international situation Israel is right now, “What the hell just happened?”.

Israel got 12 points from 12 countries and the “Rest of the World” vote. Every one of those countries (except for Azerbaijan and Australia) are in Western Europe. And people, mostly pro-Palestinians, are asking themselves “How is it? How is it that, despite our efforts, our voices are not heard? How is it that people continue to vote for a colonialist, ostracized entity?”. Well, folks, the answer is written into your domestic politics.

Europe today is suffering from a political divide between the left and right. The left, living in a hallucination, is more pro-immigrant, allowing asylum seekers to enter their respective countries. The problem is, in most cases, these asylum seekers don’t even respect the countries who brought them in. The result is a dangerous situation in which the non-immigrant population fear for their own countries. This pushes, even the most average European, to the right. And the results are accordingly. German elections in 2025 saw such parties its second largest in parliament; in France 2024, its third largest. Italy is headed by the right wing since 2023. Also, that year, the Dutch right-wing party became the largest in its parliament.

Back to Eurovision. It seems that those same things translate into culture. Apparently, ordinary Europeans look up to Israel as a symbol. Ever since October 7^th, it seems that Europeans fear that the same massacres that happened might happen to them. And support for Israel is on the rise in such populations. They do not trust the establishment telling them what to think and do, so why would the Israel issue be any different? They know that the war here is justified out of self-defense, despite what others might say. And that apparently translated into the myriads of 12 points in the popular vote. Following antisemitic thought, conspirators believe that Jewish communities around Europe rallied around Israel to vote for it. That may be partly true. But how many Jews live in Luxembourg? Finland and Ireland gave Israel 10 points; how many Jews live there?

It seems that Eurovision became another battlefield for the situation in Israel, but one about the future of the continent. Will leftist Europeans continue living in a wasted love towards people who have no respect for the countries taking them in, or will a new day will rise in Europe?