The head of the Spanish party Podemos, Ione Belarra, demands that Israel be suspended from any international activities, including participation in Eurovision. In December, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Israel was responding disproportionately to Hamas attacks.
In November, Sanchez expressed confidence that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's response to the attack by the Palestinian Hamas movement was misguided. “Israel must be denied the right to participate in any international activity as a pressure tactic to stop the genocide of the Palestinian people,” the politician wrote in X.