Excerpt from the music video for "Hurricane" by Aden Golan, Israel's song for Eurovision 2024/here 11
Do the most favorite bloggers of Eurovision fans in Israel and the world boycott Israel and refrain from uploading reaction videos to the song "Hurricane" by Aden Golan?
Reaction videos feature YouTubers sitting in front of the camera, recording themselves reacting to songs.
This is a popular video genre, especially in the field of Eurovision - where every announcement of a new song competing in the competition is an event.
We recently posted an article here with a number of amateurs, but none of the "considered" ones are included.
Two of the biggest are Noosh, an Armenian-Cypriot by descent who lives in the UK, and the American Eurovision fan Alicia Michelle.
Both visited Eurovision 2019 held in Tel Aviv and have tens of thousands of followers on the various platforms.
Last year, Nosh's reaction video to the song "Unicorn" by Noa Kirel received more than 60 thousand views.
None of them reacted to Aden Golan's new song, but they did upload reaction videos to the songs published after the Israeli song.
"I apologize for not speaking about the fact that I did not respond to Israel's participation in Eurovision this year," Mosh wrote in a story, which tried to explain why she was silent.
"It was a complex decision, because I love the culture and the music that comes from this country, as many of you have also seen over the years. It is not my place to make comments on the subject, while I am not Palestinian or Israeli and I have not experienced anything firsthand. In any case, I made a decision Not to respond to songs from Azerbaijan and Armenia for similar reasons, so it would be hypocritical of me to sit and talk about a song when I know it's causing so much pain to other people around the world. I hope things change for the better in the future, and I pray for everyone involved in the situation. Please be kind to this to that."
And not only them: the largest and most viewed site related to the Eurovision fandom is Wiwibloggs, and over the years its founder who became a big Eurovision host far beyond the site, William Lee Adams, is considered a fan of Israel.
A reaction video has not yet been uploaded there, but they did upload an article about the exposure of the Israeli song, and they are known for not uploading their reaction videos immediately.
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