Israeli host ends press conference after a question about Palestine to Hatari | Eurovision Tel Aviv

Hatari band from Iceland have been asked about the rocket attacks, that happened that day in the south of Israel, but they were not allowed to finish that topic. According to the press conference host, that was due to time limitations. Video recorded during Iceland's press conference at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Courtesy of EBU and KAN.

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[ZARY-wav]

watching this in 2025 just after eurovison... they said it 6 years ago.

[therealsirdj]

I love how the host tried to shut it down, yet Hetari decided: "This question hasn't been answered yet, so we'll stay and answer"

[kingstonjunn]

i'm almost sure matthias was about to say at the end-- peace will prevail

[Tereb]

They handled this miserable attempt to shut them down so well. Finally some personal integrity in art!

[froufroudeluxe]

So this is “freedom of expression”? If this isn’t censorship I don’t know what is. Hatred will prevail

[kimkire]

I stand with Hatari and disagree with the host interrupting but I do think that she herself isn't the one making the decision to interrupt. I believe she has an earpiece in which they give her directions to guide the conference. I'm certainly not defending her behaviour, but I don't think we should put the blame on her as a host. She was just doing her job, wasn't she? Just a thing I've thought about, might be completely wrong.

[reisakumaphd]

Can we please look at the face of Matthias, when the host panicked and told about running out of town? It told thousand words! 😂

[gussaj]

Host: "first of all I think that they already answered"...

Key words here are "I THINK".. How can she just imply that they finished answering the question after, not once but twice asking her to get to answer! This is censorship in it's purest way, action and form!

[OrangStefan]

This press conference host is really bad!

[Karamazova]

3 years ago, the Ukrainian representative took the victory with a song "1943". During the competition Jamala declared that it was not a political song. After winning, she said that the song had political connotations. Ukraine is not punished for this.Therefore, we conclude that it is quite okay to provoke Russia, but not Israel.

[tasolyn]

Hatari: We like to have an open and critical discussion.
Israeli lackey: Oops, sorry we are out of time.
Hatari: Okay, fine. We hope the occupation of Palestine ends as soon as possible.

That's what you get for trying to censor.

[froufroudeluxe]

Such outspoken, intelligent guys.
Class act, they really know what’s up

[Alfred-F-Jones]

I'm seven months late to this, but I just wanted to say that the members of Hatari were the real heroes this year. I'm so impressed by their bravery and their ability to seamlessly handle situations like this. _True artists_ and beautiful people.

[cookie_dough_hangover]

The host takes "orders". That says a lot.

[ANARCHY]

Hatari should be credited for standing up and making a statement with the Palestinian vision has always been political...oh and when did Israel and Australia become part of Europe??! So please dont tell me its not political, especially when Israel is not in Europe and hosted from occupied territory

[m.bassel]

That shows the real face of the so called the only democracy in the middle east hahahahha cannot stop laughing

[adelmostafa]

Personally, I don't and never will understand how anybody with human decency could ever support genocide, no matter who commits it

[eviken]

Israel signed a contract with EBU that they may not interfere if contestants express their feelings about the conflict.

[notsocool]

They handled this pure bullcrap with such grace, I'm so impressed👏🏻

[khalidngadi]

Hatari are the heroes we never asked for