A UK Government minister has defended the right of Israeli artists to perform following a protest at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Demonstrators disrupted a performance on Thursday at the Edinburgh Playhouse by the Batsheva Dance Company, from Tel Aviv.
Earlier a number of leading Scottish creatives, including writers Iain Banks and AL Kennedy and national poet Liz Lochhead, publicly called for the show, called Hora, to be banned given that it is partly funded by the Israeli Government.
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