US EditionEurovision 2025: Austria’s JJ Questions Israel’s Audience Vote Win
- Austrian artist JJ achieved victory at the Eurovision Song Contest held on May 18, 2025, in Basel, Switzerland, with his track "Wasted Love."
- Israel's participation sparked protests due to the Gaza conflict, and Yuval Raphael performed "New Day Will Rise" amid attempts by protesters to disrupt the stage.
- Raphael won the televote with 297 points and finished second overall after JJ, who received 436 total points combining televote and jury votes.
- JJ expressed his dissatisfaction with Israel's continued participation in the contest and advocated for the country's exclusion from the 2026 Eurovision event in Vienna.
- The controversy led to calls for voting transparency and an investigation into alleged vote manipulation, while Eurovision organizers defended the integrity of the voting system.
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ESC Winner JJ: An Artist with a Lot of Potential – and a Problem
ESC winner JJ unites classical music and pop like hardly any other – as countertenor at the Vienna State Opera, as pop singer with career plan. An artist with international potential – would not be his latest demands for an exclusion of Israel from the ESC 2026.
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Eurovision winner wants Israel excluded from 2026 contest over Gaza war
MADRID (Reuters) - Austrian singer JJ, who won this year's Eurovision song contest, called in an interview published on Thursday for Israel to be excluded from the 2026 edition in Vienna due to the war in Gaza.
·Colorado Springs, United States
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