‘Cultural appropriation’ row over winner’s kimono

Oriental style. One Twitter user called ‘Free Palestine’ said her red, pink and black costume coupled with roller buns in her hair was ‘high-key racist’.

Rachel Oelbaum of the University of Manchester called it ‘a massive step backwards’ and Geraint Palmer, a PhD student at Cardiff University, asked: ‘How come no one’s calling Israel out on their cultural appropriation?’

Controversial outfit: Netta on stage EUROVISION winner Netta Barzilai says she wore a kimono-style dress on stage because Korean and Japanese music are big influences on her songwriting and she wanted to pay tribute. ‘We thought the K-pop J-pop theme...