Why hasn't Israel been banned from the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest like Russia was in 2022?
ABCIf there's one line Eurovision's organiser, the European Broadcasting Union, loves to trot out, it's that the song contest is an "apolitical" event that brings people across the world together with music. Eurovision's version of a red carpet event had a four-legged denim egg Photo shows Two people inside a denim-covered egg-like shell one wearing shorts, socks and sandals, the other in jeans The 2024 Eurovision Song Contest's opening ceremony gave us some theatrical red carpet moments. The first: "The Eurovision Song Contest is a non-political music event and a competition between public service broadcasters who are members of the EBU. "The EBU justifies its position by saying that the Eurovision song contest is a competition between public service companies rather than states," the Swedes' letter argued.