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reason for its boycott. Slovenia’s national broadcaster said it would boycott participation “on behalf of the 20,000 children who died in Gaza”, while Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE also announced that it would
Eurovision Song Contest is now facing its biggest boycott in its 70-year history. While 35 countries are participating in the 2026 contest, broadcasters from Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Iceland and Slovenia have withdrawn from
reason, but which is assumed to be related to its war with the US and Israel. The actual art seems to have become a sideshow. There won’t be a Golden or Silver Lion award
boycott the event](https://www.npr.org/2025/12/05/nx-s1-5634466/eurovision-contest-israel) in protest of Israel's conduct in Gaza, even as the contest's organizers struggle mightily to project an apolitical, uncontroversial image. That effort is more doomed than ever