{"id":874,"date":"2026-05-13T16:39:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=874"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:39:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:39:46","slug":"israeli-singer-noa-speaks-to-france-24-as-israels-participation-sparks-eurovision-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"Israeli singer Noa speaks to FRANCE 24 as Israel&#8217;s participation sparks Eurovision backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten countries, including favourite Finland and controversial competitor Israel, secured places on Tuesday in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. The contest\u2019s 70th anniversary edition has been overshadowed by divisions, with five countries \u2014 Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Iceland \u2014 boycotting in protest against Israel\u2019s war in Gaza, which has killed at least 75,000 Palestinians since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. For more, FRANCE 24\u2019s Nadia Massih is joined by renowned Israeli singer Noa, who previously represented Israel at Eurovision in 2009 alongside Mira Awad, a Palestinian citizen of Israel. Noa has frequently used her platform to speak out against Israel\u2019s treatment of Palestinians in both the occupied West Bank and Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten countries, including favourite Finland and controversial competitor Israel, secured places on Tuesday in the final of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}