I mean, there’s obviously something going on. Public sentiment towards Ukraine is still strong and you still see yellow and blue flags flying but sympathy for Israel was never as strong and it’s since massively died off given how they’ve reacted. The vote is clearly not a reflection of genuine public opinion. But what’s going on, are certain people just voting loads of times?
The EBU is open to broadcasters in the ITU Europe region. These regions are in no small part defined by the British Empire’s telegraph routes. Europe then being Europe, and the nations in which the Mediterranean shore stations of the telegraph network were located, and then fill in the gaps.