Culture has always served as a powerful weapon. It can fuel progressive mass movements and it can also be used as a tool of propaganda against them. Israel is no stranger to using such tactics to whitewash its crimes against the Palestinian people...
...But activists across the UK are already fighting back.
Earlier this month, queer activists protested the Eurovision winner's performance at London's famous gay club, Heaven.
The action served to counter the pinkwashing used by Israel - namely through Barzilai's role as a cultural ambassador for the state - which the organisers described as a 'cynical campaign to use LGBT rights to shield itself from criticism of its decades-old oppression of Palestinians...