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Did you watch the European Song Contest‘s 2nd semifinal last night? Did you notice it? It came and went really fast, but did you manage to notice how Israel was wiped off the map?

Before each live performance a short video clip about the participating country was shown, but right before that video some on-screen graphics created the map of each country. Yes, each country but one: Israel.
Right before Harel Skaat took to the stage, the same yellow graphics that filled the screen for each other country, that graphics was now squished to the side and quickly disappeared.

Did the 62 years old Jewish nation get the shaft? Did The Jew Among Nations got the regular treatment? Serbia, a country that got its independence less than 4 years ago got similar treatment in the 1st semifinal; Does that fact make it better or worse?

Here’s the video (Don’t blink during the first few seconds):

Screen captures for each participating county after the jump:

Lithuania:

Armenia:

Israel:

Denmark:

Switzerland:

Sweden:

Azerbaijan:

Ukraine:

Netherlands:

Romania:

Slovenia:

Ireland:

Bulgaria:

Cyprus:

Croatia:

Georgia:

Turkey: