Edited sentence: Following pressure from a radical fringe group, the festival in 2009 returned a financial contribution from the Israeli embassy.The Israeli Embassy claimed that the donation was to pay for the travel expenses of an Israeli film-maker, Tali Shalom Ezer, a graduate of Tel Aviv University, to travel to Scotland for a screening of her film Surrogate.The link to the Israeli Embassy was ended, and the Festival agreed to pay from its own funds to allow her to attend