Michael Jackson's Jewish attorney has vowed to defend his pop star client against accusations of anti-Semitism.

MICHAEL JACKSON is being urged to apologise after a TV network aired a tape which the pop star apparently referred to Jews as “leeches.”

The American Anti-Defamation League today demanded an apology from Michael Jackson after a TV network aired what was said to be a telephone answering-machine message in which the pop star referred to Jews as “leeches”.

With seven out of eight fastest stage times, it was a day of almost total domination for Andrew Nesbitt and co-driver, James O’Brien (Subaru WRC) at the end of the first leg of the Ordnance Survey Ireland Rally of the Lakes in Killarney.