Protesters call for RTÉ and BBC boycott of Eurovision

People attend a pro-Palestine protest outside RTE in Dublin (Brian Lawless/PA)

RTÉ has been called on to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest over Israel’s inclusion in the competition.

Irish actor Stephen Rea read the poem If I Must Die by Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, as he joined scores of protesters gathered at the main entrance to RTÉ’s campus in the Donnybrook area of Dublin on Friday evening.