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Itai Eithan Shamir

Jun 10, 2026, 9:47 PM

Eurovision 2026: United By Music, After All

Fans celebrating in the arena at the Eurovision Song Contest Final.

A few weeks have passed since the confetti was swept from the arena floor in Vienna, which hosted the 70th Eurovision Song Contest — the world’s biggest live televised music event, drawing more viewers annually than the Super Bowl....

Olvens Louissaint

May 30, 2026, 12:06 AM

Europe’s Hormuz Calculation: Why Restraint Prevails

Donald Trump’s call for NATO allies to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz places European governments in a strategic dilemma in which their geopolitical commitments collide with their economic vulnerabilities. Their refusal to join the U.S. operation in Hormuz...

Brendon Stewart Freedman

May 28, 2026, 3:57 AM

Michelle: Israel’s Eurovision Lament for Europe

Mons, Belgium. Photo by Emmanuel Codden / Pexels.

There was something almost unbearably poignant about this year’s Israeli Eurovision entry. On the surface, Michelle appeared to comply perfectly with Eurovision’s insistence on political neutrality: a multilingual love song, wistful, romantic, and melancholy, about a toxic relationship and lingering...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 27, 2026, 11:18 AM

Europe Needs Israel to Join the European Union

Europe is careening toward strategic irrelevance as Iranian proxies tighten their noose around its southern flank and radical Islam spreads through its streets and no-go zones. Israel is the hard-power partner the European Union can no longer afford to...

May 22, 2026, 7:51 PM

United by Music, Divided on Campus

Last year, conversations about Eurovision on UK university campuses stopped being about celebrating music and became a platform for anti-Israel hatred. It seems that this year won’t be very different. As president of my university’s Eurovision Society, I found myself...

Kelly Leibovich

May 19, 2026, 5:20 PM

What Eurovision Means for Jews

The recent Eurovision show happened exactly as expected - with bitter condemnation, public outcry, and outlandish criticism of Israel’s participation in a euro-musical show it has been a part of since 1973. What better way to express what some...

May 19, 2026, 4:19 AM

Euro-Vision: The NYT Is An Antisemitic Rag

Introduction: The Battle for the Cultural Public Square In the modern landscape of global communications, the line between culture and geopolitics has completely dissolved. For decades, the Eurovision Song Contest was viewed by secular commentators as a glittering display of...

Yaacov Amar Rothstein

May 18, 2026, 6:10 PM

Eurovision and the Cain Envy Syndrome

The Eurovision Contest (a competition I don't watch because I don't like it) has ended and we witnessed the classic political phenomenon in which Israel-haters attempted to create a boycott to isolate us from the competition. We saw radical...

Paul James Kearns

May 17, 2026, 5:33 PM

What’s Another Year? Ireland’s obsession with Israel and the Eurovision

The 2026 Eurovision is finally over, but the political controversy rumbles on. Despite calls for a boycott and a months-long campaign to try to have Israel expelled from the competition, Israel has once again finished second, now for the second...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

May 17, 2026, 9:53 AM

Eurovision and the Failure of Managed Absence

Eurovision and the Failure of Managed Absence The most interesting fact about Eurovision 2026 is not that Israel did not win. Bulgaria won, and did so clearly: Dara’s “Bangaranga” finished first with 516 points. Israel’s Noam Bettan came second with...

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