by Martin Odoni

My only interest in The Eurovision Song Contest at the weekend was witnessing the storms of jeers and booing that the Israeli entry was bound to face over its army’s ongoing brutality towards Gaza. As much of the noise came from the thousands gathered outside the concert hall in Malmo as from within it. What happened after that was a matter of total indifference.

The inevitable childish objections from Zionist circles that the jeers were just “anti-Semitism” were laughable to anyone capable of the most basic thought; if racial prejudice were the reason for Israel’s current status as an outright Pariah State, then Israeli entries to the Song Contest would be greeted with jeers every year and not just this year.

I stress no one should hold a grudge against the singer, Eden Golan, on a personal level. She is no more responsible for the last seven months in Gaza than a Japanese rice farmer in the 1940s would have been for Pearl Harbour.

In all fairness, Hurricane is genuinely not a bad song, and Golan performed it well in difficult circumstances. How Zionists think this strengthens the case for Israel to be allowed to continue committing genocide is something of a mystery though.

Golan, who is more Russian than Israeli, has apparently expressed naive and contradictory sentiments about appearing in the Contest – on the one hand declaring great pride in representing Israel while on the other insisting her performance was for the hostages who need to be returned home (in truth it is the Israeli Government, and especially Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that constitute the main obstacle to the release of Hamas’ hostages) – but that can be put down to her relative youth. That she fails to see the resemblance between her two home countries in their respective current wars, however, suggests she buys too much into Israeli propaganda.

What has been marked since the Contest is a strange, dim-witted triumphalism that seems to have taken hold of the Zionist movement. Israel did well in the Contest, finishing a respectable fifth in the overall count, and second in the public vote. It is not very difficult to figure out how it happened though. Partly, a lot of people appear to have boycotted the telephone vote this year, in objection to Israel being allowed to take part in the Contest while Russia, guilty of similar crimes, has been banned for the last two years.

But also, Zionist groups themselves were bombarding the phone lines in various countries across Europe to bolster massively Israel’s public score.

What use is doing this if you openly declare that what you did has skewered the figures?

We do not need to produce evidence of this, because the Zionists themselves, like the imbeciles that they routinely are, have been quite openly bragging about what they did all over social media for the last three days. Some have boasted quite eagerly and with genuine self-admiration about voting some sixty times by using various technical methods to speed up the process.

To be honest, I have no particular issue with this in itself. The Eurovision Song Contest is unimportant, and I am very happy for Zionists to make themselves poorer in likely phone charges voting to ‘load the deck’ of a singing competition, rather than them, say, investing the money in the Israel Defence Force.

Why not just bribe the organisers in front of the whole audience and have done with it?

But I have to laugh at the stupidity of doing the equivalent of loading the deck and then boasting about it. It is one of the most ridiculous examples I have yet seen of saying the quiet bit out loud.

By admitting that they were voting up to sixty times each, the Zionists are openly declaring that the final outcome was not a true reflection of the public view. I do not think there is anything specific in the rules of the Contest against voting more than once, so it is a bit of a stretch to call it ‘cheating’. But it is certainly not in the spirit of having a public vote, and the outcome of it has undoubtedly been corrupted, the final figures undoubtedly skewed, by them doing it. Indeed, that is kind of what they are being so smug about.

But my point is less the moral question mark, and more the strategic stupidity in boasting about it afterwards. For the manipulation of the voting process to have any positive effect for the Zionist cause and for Israel’s image, the people doing it need to keep quiet about what they have done, and let everyone think this was a genuine reflection of the wider public’s views.

That is precisely what the Zionists have not done. The result is that everybody now knows that the phone vote merely reflects that Israel – not necessarily its entry in the Contest note – is popular among Zionists. Well duuuuuhhhhh, we already know that! That is more or less what being a Zionist boils down to.

Can you believe the stupidity of this tweet? It is the equivalent of cheating at poker while telling your opponents that you have just moved the card that was hidden up your sleeve into your hand.

So all that money and effort put into skewering the Eurovision Song Contest – a trivial event to bother corrupting anyway – was effectively spent for nothing.

It is only because of Governmental and media complicity over Israel for strategic reasons that Zionism is a danger to the world at all. The Zionists on their own are mainly mindless, brainwashed ideologues who make it far too easy for us.