I went to Eurovision this year. Bought flights before Oct 7th. Bought tickets before the conflict had really started. It was completely overshadowed by Israel. It was really awful in the area when they performed. It put excessive pressure on the competitors. The atmosphere in the arena when Israel performed was dreadful.
I'm not particularly interested in the rights or wrongs of whether Israel should be in Eurovision - Eurovision shouldn't be about politics. It just felt like being caught in the middle of someone else's argument and that was unpleasant enough.
I have said I won't go again whilst it persists. It ruined the event and I expect protests to be bigger this year and it will be harder to avoid them (a lot of people stayed in Copenhagen whilst protests were in Malmö).
However Israel are extremely unlikely to get booted because the event's main sponsor is Israeli.
I think Israel should remove themselves in good grace if they care about Eurovision itself. But then they won't because it's a propaganda opportunity for the government.
Eurovision should be outside of politics though because it's principal is about reducing hate and that's still necessary during conflict.
But I am also not impressed at the abuse dished out by pro-palestinian groups on this either. It doesn't make me more sympathetic. I am very aware genocide is being committed. It doesn't lessen my feeling that there's innocents on both sides who actively condemn the war who are on the recieving end of abuse dished out in the name of supporting 'the cause'.