De siste årene har kampanjene for å utestenge Israel fra Eurovision blitt stadig kraftigere.
MIFF har gått i motsatt retning, og oppfordret våre medlemmer og støttespillere til å stemme på Israel.
24. mai ble MIFFs kampanje omtalt i New York Times, i en artikkel av kulturjournalisten Alex Marshall.
New York Times skrev blant annet:
Conrad Myrland, the managing director of With Israel for Peace, a pro-Israel advocacy organization based in Norway, said that he hadn’t paid much attention to Eurovision until last year when pro-Palestinian activists called for a ban on Israel.
This year, Myrland said, his organization had used emails, text messages and social media posts to urge its 15,000 members to each cast the maximum 20 votes for Israel. He estimated that his organization had helped secure “hundreds of thousands of votes.” He wanted “to show that Israel indeed has a place,” he said.