At the Eurovision song contest, Israel drew protesters as well as boycotts by Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, Iceland and Slovenia. Days later, Israel's finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is seeking an arrest warrant for him, and France and Poland barred another cabinet member, the national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, from entering their countries. All of this was in the past month alone.