{"id":55834,"date":"2024-05-12T19:36:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T17:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=55834"},"modified":"2024-12-28T05:56:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T04:56:25","slug":"shameful-censorship-israeli-singer-eden-golans-lyrics-banned-by-eurovision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/12\/shameful-censorship-israeli-singer-eden-golans-lyrics-banned-by-eurovision\/","title":{"rendered":"Shameful censorship: Israeli singer Eden Golan's lyrics banned by Eurovision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great result obtained by the Israeli singer Eden Golan at Eurovision last night should not make us forget the shame of that festival.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/12\/eurovision-a-big-blow-of-reality-for-the-european-anti-semitic-left-wing\/\">Eurovision, a big blow of reality for the European anti-Semitic left-wing<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/24\/yerushalayim-shel-zahav-one-of-the-most-beautiful-songs-about-a-city\/\">'Yerushalayim Shel Zahav': One of the most beautiful songs about a city<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Golan may be remembered as <strong>a 20-year-old girl who brought beauty and good music to a festival where bad songs and bad taste abounded<\/strong>, with some that seemed to compete to beat some mark of ugliness and filth such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UMq8ofCstMQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the horrendous show of Bambie Thug (Ireland)<\/a>, whose terrible song is combined with a staging that seemed designed by an adherent of a satanic sect.<\/p>\n<p>Light years above that garbage, <strong>the official video for Golan's song, \"Hurricane\" is downright excellent<\/strong> (the song is in English and Hebrew, you can turn on the automatic subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eden Golan - Hurricane | Israel \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 | Official Music Video | Eurovision 2024\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lJYn09tuPw4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is well known that songs with political content are not allowed in Eurovision, and that was the excuse offered to ban two Eden Golan songs by the European Broadcasting Union, organizer of the festival. <strong>The same festival that approved Bambie Thug's satanic act<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israel-says-it-will-edit-song-lyrics-to-avoid-being-disqualified-from-eurovision\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">censored two lyrics by Eden Golan<\/a>, considering them too political. Although the process is confidential, the censorship was so scandalous that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kan.org.il\/content\/kan-news\/culture\/709196\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) broadcast the first censored letter on February 22<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The song was titled \"October Rain\"<\/strong>, the music was practically the same as that of \"Hurricane\" and the lyrics were in English and the last verse in Hebrew:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Writers of the history<br \/>\nStand with me<br \/>\nLook into my eyes and see<br \/>\nPeople go away but never say goodbye<\/p>\n<p>Someone stole the moon tonight<br \/>\nTook my light<br \/>\nEverything is black and white<br \/>\nWho's the fool who told you<br \/>\nBoys don't cry<\/p>\n<p>Hours and hours and flowers<br \/>\nLife is no game for the cowards<br \/>\nWhy does time go wild<br \/>\nEvery day I'm loosing my mind<br \/>\nHolding on in this mysterious ride<\/p>\n<p>Dancing in the storm<br \/>\nWe got nothing to hide<br \/>\nTake me home<br \/>\nAnd leave the world behind<br \/>\nAnd I promise you that never again<br \/>\nI'm still wet from this october rain<br \/>\nOctober Rain<\/p>\n<p>Living in a fantasy<br \/>\nEcstasy<br \/>\nEverything's meant to be<br \/>\nWe shall pass but love will never die<\/p>\n<p>Hours and hours and flowers<br \/>\nLife is no game for the cowards<br \/>\nWhy does time go wild<br \/>\nEvery day I'm loosing my mind<br \/>\nHolding on in this mysterious ride<\/p>\n<p>Dancing in the storm<br \/>\nWe got nothing to hide<br \/>\nTake me home<br \/>\nAnd leave the world behind<br \/>\nAnd I promise you that never again<br \/>\nI'm still wet from this october rain<br \/>\nOctober Rain<br \/>\nOctober Rain<\/p>\n<p>\u05dc\u05d0 \u05e0\u05e9\u05d0\u05e8 \u05d0\u05d5\u05d5\u05d9\u05e8 \u05dc\u05e0\u05e9\u05d5\u05dd<br \/>\n\u05d0\u05d9\u05df \u05de\u05e7\u05d5\u05dd<br \/>\n\u05d0\u05d9\u05df \u05d0\u05d5\u05ea\u05d9 \u05de\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05dc\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd<br \/>\n\u05db\u05d5\u05dc\u05dd \u05d9\u05dc\u05d3\u05d9\u05dd \u05d8\u05d5\u05d1\u05d9\u05dd \u05d0\u05d7\u05d3 \u05d0\u05d7\u05d3<\/p>\n<p>(There's no air left to breath<br \/>\nThere's no space<br \/>\nI'm gone day by day<br \/>\nEveryone is good kids one by one)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What was \"political\" about these lyrics?<\/strong> It could be interpreted that it was a poetic, very metaphorical reference to the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, and that was enough for it to be censored. <strong>A shameful censorship<\/strong>, which did not admit even a slight evocation of a massacre in which <strong>many of the murdered people were, precisely, at a music festival<\/strong>. All this while the \"woke\" left that dominates Eurovision boasts of tolerance, inclusivity and human rights, and <strong>in the same festival that does allow the display of LGBT, transgender flags, etc.<\/strong>, as we saw last night.<\/p>\n<p>As it was not enough to ban one lyric, <b>Eurovision vetoed another lyric by Eden Golan, titled \"Dance Forever\"<\/b>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/culture\/article\/bygaq5n36\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Israeli media Ynet published this second censored letter on February 28:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Running<br \/>\nCity lights<br \/>\nFighting<br \/>\nMy mind<br \/>\nhiding<br \/>\nI don\u2019t know what\u2019s right<br \/>\nTake me<br \/>\nTo the right road<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no more time and I can\u2019t go wrong<br \/>\nbreath in<br \/>\nI know that I\u2019m strong <\/p>\n<p>I break all the chains<br \/>\nI\u2019m on the edge now<br \/>\nWatch me fly away<br \/>\nOh, dance like an angel<br \/>\nOh, you will remember<br \/>\nThat I will dance forever<br \/>\nI will dance again<br \/>\nOh, dance like an angel<\/p>\n<p>Drowning<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Was this a political lyric? This should not be allowed and the satanic filth of Ireland should?<\/strong> The Eurovision Song Contest is seriously affected after this edition. A censorship can only be explained by a blatant bias towards Israel, the only Jewish state in the world. <strong>And all this after that country suffered the greatest massacre suffered by the Jewish people since the Holocaust.<\/strong> The European Broadcasting Union should be ashamed, if it had one.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Jens B\u00fcttner.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great result obtained by the Israeli singer Eden Golan at Eurovision last night should not make us forget the shame of that festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11348],"tags":[21848,21856,1292,95],"class_list":["post-55834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-eden-golan","tag-european-broadcasting-union","tag-eurovision","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}