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On Wednesday, France threatened to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest because of a TV series aired in May on the Israeli public broadcaster.
The mini-series in three parts, titled "Twelve Points", is themed Islamic State terrorists who use the French representative in the contest to conduct a breathtaking terrorist attack in the air.
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As published for the first time on Ynet's website, the French broadcasting authority informed the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation that if this series were broadcast, it would boycott the Eurovision contest. One of the reasons is that, by chance, France will be represented this year by Bilal Hbadani, a homobadual Muslim French, like the protagonist of the series, a homobadual Franco-Algerian.
For now, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation does not intend to unplug the series, pointing out that it was a comic thriller written a year ago, unrelated to actual events.
The series was created by Assaf Zelikovich and Yoav Hebel last year, just after Neta Barzilai won the contest in Lisbon. It is currently in the final editing stage, includes French actors and has been partially filmed in France.
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In an interview published last month in Haaretz, the creators of the series said they criticized Israel, not France. "Often, Mossad agents appear in series such as Kfulim (False Flag) or Hamidrasha (Mossad 101), and they are always presented very seriously. We said – enough of that – we have to have fun with that, "said Hebel," They are people like everyone else, sometimes messed up. "They too have two children at home and a woman reminding them to pick up the diapers on We put them in comic situations that bring out the human side. "
The executive supervisor of Eurovision, the European Broadcasting Union, Jan Ola Sand, is currently in Israel. The Broadcasting Corporation claims that this is not related to the dispute with France.
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