Apologies, but when the Israeli government pays for flashy adverts at Times Square and post adverts in the Jewish media to ask that that people vote for Israel regardless of whether or not they have watched the contest. That is quite explicitly the most political intervention into voting in the history of ESC, far exceeding the Franco interference of 1968. A government spending huge amounts of money to try to gain votes is against all the ethics of the contest.
Apologies, but when the Israeli government pays for flashy adverts at Times Square and post adverts in the Jewish media to ask that that people vote for Israel regardless of whether or not they have watched the contest. That is quite explicitly the most political intervention into voting in the history of ESC, far exceeding the Franco interference of 1968. A government spending huge amounts of money to try to gain votes is against all the ethics of the contest.