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Exclusive: Israeli Singer Eden Golan on Facing the Mob at Eurovision
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The 20-year-old Israeli singer sits down for her first in-depth interview since performing amid death threats and jeers: “I turned it into my power.”
Amid the Israel-Hamas War, a campaign was mounted to boycott Eurovision for allowing Israel to participate. Over 1,000 Swedish musicians, including the pop star Robyn, signed a petition calling for Israel’s exclusion. In Finland, 1,300 artists signed a similar petition. Bars here in New York announced they wouldn’t screen the competition in protest. Israel was forced to revise their song after its original entry, “October Rain,” was deemed too political by the EBU. This was all before anyone took to the stage.
Despite calls for boycott, 163 million people tuned in to Eurovision this year to watch Golan and the other performers. She placed fifth, and snagged the number two spot when it came to the public vote.
I sat down with Golan in New York, in her first in-depth interview since the competition, to talk about how she handled the pressure of being the most-hated performer in Eurovision history before ever singing a note, how it feels to represent Israel since October 7, and what comes next.
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Komentáře

  • @just_the_messenger
    @just_the_messenger Před hodinou

    Thought experiment: What if an AI that can, as Pinker said, iteratively get smarter, decides to investigate ambition in an iteration of learning and it understands the concept. Do we know for sure it wouldn't decide to hardcode ambition into its code if it has access and thinks it would be an improvement? Could this ambition then make it add other aspects to itself that may corrupt it? I personally think we should be very careful before we let a true AGI have access to its own code, either directly or by proxy.

  • @el_chico1313
    @el_chico1313 Před hodinou

    from the river to the sea israel will remain free🇮🇱

  • @HusseinDoha
    @HusseinDoha Před hodinou

    Maybe she busted wanted to sing, but for the Israeli government and majority of Israelis, this was a chance to whitewash atrocities, brutal military occupation and apartheid.

  • @kubaz6201
    @kubaz6201 Před hodinou

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸

  • @loismendelsohn3210
    @loismendelsohn3210 Před hodinou

    She says I really don’t think I need to be hidden. And that’s probably wise to say on a conversation like this to avoid fear mongering, also the USA is possibly a lot further from that time wise than Canada or much of Europe. Realistically.

  • @oriamayanahum482
    @oriamayanahum482 Před hodinou

  • @jacobburris9637
    @jacobburris9637 Před hodinou

    Wish she would've turned it around on that reporter and asked him "in danger from whom?"

  • @shawnmiranda
    @shawnmiranda Před hodinou

    Man, Greta Thunberg really had so many lefties fooled thinking she was something special when all she turned out to be was a really young brain dead leftist that never understood critical thinking.

  • @Ramenscooter
    @Ramenscooter Před hodinou

    Thanks again FreePress!

  • @pe4624
    @pe4624 Před hodinou

    Bari- I applaud your journey. You are someone I wish my daughter would emulate. I really enjoyed this show. Interesting, entertaining, and touching. God bless sister and stay safe💜✡️💜✡️💜✡️💜✡️💜

  • @novineux1246
    @novineux1246 Před hodinou

    26 countries? This year it was 37 :S

  • @yusufmuslim4420
    @yusufmuslim4420 Před hodinou

    Nice interview with an Arab Muslim with Stockholm Syndrome from her Zionist colonizers who expelled natives and now she is an Israeli citizen the same way an African American was an American citizen before the civil rights movement. She does not represent the view of the vast amount of Muslims/Arabs. I would say 99.9% are against Zionism. Zionism means apartheid and ethnic cleansing. If Israel was formed in Germany no one would have a problem but cannot change history, dispossession/ethnic cleansing of native land, and the terrorism (look up Irgun, Haganah, and Stern gangs) that led to the establishment of Israel and still continues in the occupied terrorities. Nice try Bari Weiss. We can see right through your agenda.

  • @cathiebruce6072
    @cathiebruce6072 Před hodinou

    She cannor be trusted omgosh

  • @alanavery346
    @alanavery346 Před hodinou

    Mainstream media is the tool of the devil and all those who are evil. We the People should go against the main stream media.

  • @globalconcern4995
    @globalconcern4995 Před hodinou

    Your dad is a great man.

  • @danimal2659
    @danimal2659 Před hodinou

    The only good thing to come out of Eurovision is Eden and that Will Ferrel movie.

  • @888mf4
    @888mf4 Před hodinou

    The public voted Israel as No 2 in the competition. Mazaltov Team Eden. The song was great, the performance strong and looking forward to seeing Eden's career blossom.

  • @HiHereIAm693
    @HiHereIAm693 Před hodinou

    We love Eden! All love from Sweden!

  • @ElisaAvigayil
    @ElisaAvigayil Před hodinou

    Wow, these comments. Hundreds of positive and loving comments. I've never seen anything like it.

  • @MsRobinRif
    @MsRobinRif Před hodinou

    Eden was amazing and so poised I remember when I was last in Israel- a few years ago- that Israel was preparing to host Eurovision. I believe if you win your country hosts the following year. What surprised me was how any of this hate is tolerated in a competition like this. There should be a zero tolerance. But as we see antisemitism very radically raised its head.

  • @rf101259
    @rf101259 Před hodinou

    I love Eurovision, but the amount of hatred and filth that was thrown at Israel was disproportionate and unnecessary. I don’t think I’m going to watch it anymore. I’m disgusted by the intolerant fandom. Many fans are LGBTQ+ and their support of “Palestine” (Hamas in actuality) is mind boggling in that those same people would be thrown off the tallest building should they ever go to Gaza. Good luck to them. Hope they enjoy the view from up there.

  • @sharonmarshall3671
    @sharonmarshall3671 Před hodinou

    Moral inversion can be bought apparently. Also, the education system seems to be wanting

  • @YonieZukowsky51
    @YonieZukowsky51 Před 2 hodinami

    Grace under pressure. Good for you Eden.

  • @JB-wh4cn
    @JB-wh4cn Před 2 hodinami

    The freaks lost because the brave refused to be intimidated. Compare the behavior of each group. Am Yisrael Chai.

  • @ctafrance
    @ctafrance Před 2 hodinami

    All of which goes to show that the vicious Jew hating propaganda of Hamas is extremely effective. But it is only that: propaganda. A big lie in this case. The word GENOCIDE means something. Like what? Like 7 million Jews exterminated by the Nazis in an attempt to eliminate their race. Like over a million Armenians driven out into the desert to die by the Turks. Like 600,000 Rwandans slaughtered as "cockroaches" because they belonged to the wrong tribe. There have been 37,000 fatalities in the intense urban warfare in Gaza over the last six months. Half of them were Hamas militants, as objective reports indicate that the ratio of civilian to military casualties is about 1:1, which is extremely low for modern warfare, way below anything in the last 25 years of wars across the Middle East. 17 500 civilian casualties in six months of warfare against Hamas militants who are embedded in the civilian infrastructure, in hospitals, in schools, in tunnels under civilian neighborhoods, in entire apartment blocks. That is NOT genocide by any stretch of the imagination. Calling it genocide is a lie.

  • @kpt002
    @kpt002 Před 2 hodinami

    I am Finnish and I was so irritated when Käärijä asked that short video of Eden and him together be taken off the social media. In the Finnish media he had earlier said that he doesn't know enough about the situation between Israel and Palestine to take a stand, but then that bullying mob got him to be so afraid tha he ended up doing that. I liked him before, but really stoped listening to his music after that. I can't stand people who - as we say atleast in Finnish - don't have the backbone!!

  • @AmandaWatson-vb8kb
    @AmandaWatson-vb8kb Před 2 hodinami

    she compared herself to a horse haha

  • @infinitelyexhausted
    @infinitelyexhausted Před 2 hodinami

    Eden was the sole representative of the West, standing with class and grace against a backdrop of degeneracy and downright evil.

  • @jennyvanwyk4796
    @jennyvanwyk4796 Před 2 hodinami

    Great talk, thank you 👍

  • @tomerglottman5783
    @tomerglottman5783 Před 2 hodinami

    That is a smart powerful woman ❤❤❤❤

  • @slave4glue
    @slave4glue Před 2 hodinami

    It’s very telling how much of the public votes she received, shows how the general public across Europe actually feels about this conflict rather than the people out on the streets who shout the loudest…

  • @ElisaAvigayil
    @ElisaAvigayil Před 2 hodinami

    We all know that Eden was the winner.

  • @AmandaWatson-vb8kb
    @AmandaWatson-vb8kb Před 2 hodinami

    sounds like she enjoyed it

  • @blodbotina
    @blodbotina Před 2 hodinami

    Bambie thug.. "they" cried hhahaahaha what a circus Eden is a great singer, and the song was great too

  • @SylviaStarbucks
    @SylviaStarbucks Před 2 hodinami

    I can’t believe she is only 20. ❤❤❤

  • @JKweez
    @JKweez Před 2 hodinami

    God bless this girl.

  • @leeord
    @leeord Před 2 hodinami

    I can't believe you are 20... you are so crazy talented, your voice is one of the best voices I ever heard. every time I hear you sing I cry. The way you present a song is so beautiful and touching. And as a human, you are so mature, so smart, so confident. I truly admire you! Can't wait to hear more of your music

  • @SylviaStarbucks
    @SylviaStarbucks Před 2 hodinami

    Wow you are amazing ❤❤❤ from Japan

  • @djdannymanyhats
    @djdannymanyhats Před 2 hodinami

    So many different things need to align which when it happens it is what defines the meaning of a miracle, and the fact that Eden Golan has become an integral part of the events since 7th October and the fact that she is a totally independent individual who speaks greater and from the depths of her heart more eloquently than any paid ambassador could ever do, means that she is an Israeli miracle, truly.

  • @user-cp1ok2ff1t
    @user-cp1ok2ff1t Před 2 hodinami

    Eden you had the public support! You are a hero! You had zero point by the Swedish jury but number one by the public!

  • @ScarletEarlock
    @ScarletEarlock Před 2 hodinami

    Who the f cares, people arw dying

  • @OBGynKenobi
    @OBGynKenobi Před 2 hodinami

    He hasn't done anything yet though.

  • @martinamarkota6280
    @martinamarkota6280 Před 2 hodinami

    I am Croatian, and I was so proud of you. Well done ❤

  • @in_wino_veritas
    @in_wino_veritas Před 2 hodinami

    Hey, Eden, you seem to be a little bit brainwashed, it's not some TikToker, who's accusing Israel of committing genocide, it's the UN. Maybe you should get yourself informed better.

  • @davidr24
    @davidr24 Před 2 hodinami

    I didn't think Israel should be included in the competition because other countries were disqualified in the past for far less but she carried herself very brave and even here she is not being snarky or hating towards all those those who disapproved of her but trying to make it about music and her personality which is a good move

  • @MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iy
    @MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iy Před 2 hodinami

    Europe showed we stand with Israel ❤

  • @hadas_wertheimer
    @hadas_wertheimer Před 2 hodinami

    What a wise young Eden🫡

  • @user-uf5cs2lm7z
    @user-uf5cs2lm7z Před 2 hodinami

    Wow

  • @wanjas72
    @wanjas72 Před 2 hodinami

    You got my 20 televotes from Germany for being there, performing with heart, grace and strength and having such beautiful personality! ❤ All the best to you and Am Yisrael Chai! 💙🤍💙🫂🖤❤️💛

  • @cequevouldras
    @cequevouldras Před 2 hodinami

    Wonderful human