People may claim that Brandeis University has a free speech problem, but what about Finland?
Israel’s submission to the Eurovision contest may be banned because it talks about nuclear war and the fear of being blown up to “biddy biddy kingdom come” by Mr. Hamanijad:
“It’s absolutely clear that this kind of message is not appropriate for the competition,” said Kjell Ekholm, an organizer of the contest. “We’ll have all the delegation leaders here in Helsinki next week, and I’m sure we’ll talk about this case within the EBU [European Broadcasting Union] group.”
The song warns about the dangers of nuclear war, and the lyrics of the song refer to demonic and crazy rulers, and say that he’s gonna blow us up to … kingdom come.
Watch it at YouTube
Chag purim sameach, folks! And remember - when Ahashverosh offed Haman,
he couldn’t repeal his previous order to kill the Jews, so instead he empowered them to fight back.
March 5th, 2007 at 3:49 am
The collective wisdom on an LGF comment thread found out that there is indeed precedent in Eurovision for political songs.
http://www.keshertalk.com/archives/2007/03/pushthebutton.php
March 5th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
In 1982 the Finnish entry was a very political song solely about bombs, and nobody had a problem with that. Maybe because the bombs they feared weren’t Iranian but American.
Yet again Israel is singled out.
Please expose this hypocrisy.
Enclosed is a link to the (very poorly translated) words to the Finnish entry back in 1982.
The song title litterally means “Sleep while bombs are falling” ie to be unaware of imminent danger and/or oversleep.
http://www.diggiloo.net/?1982fi
And here’s the hilariously inept video for the song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8HdS0ukSwk