LGBT activists have released a spoof version of hit song YMCA to urge TV presenter Graham Norton to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest because of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.
Mr Norton is to host BBC coverage of the event in Tel Aviv on May 18 despite widespread controversy over Israel hosting the event.
The cast are calling on Mr Norton to heed Palestinians’ call for a boycott of Eurovision until Israel complies with international law.
History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
The struggle for Palestinian freedom has become a defining issue for everyone committed to justice, democracy and peace, says PETER LEARY ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING


