Israel must reconsider its choice of UK ambassador
JVL Introduction
Tzipi Hotovely has just been appointed as Israel’s Ambassador to replace Mark Regev later this year.
By any account, she is an extraordinary choice. Not long ago she accused the Palestinians of being “thieves of history” because they don’t recognise the Biblical contract proving that Abraham bought the Cave of the Patriarchs at its full value.
Viscerally opposed to “mixed” (Jewish-Palestinian) marriages, or to American Jews who don’t send their sons to serve in the Israeli army, she perfectly encapsulates Netanyahu’s contempt for diaspora Jews who still regard Palestinians as human, deserving equal respect.
No doubt the Board of Deputies will welcome her with open arms.
Here Jenni Frazer a committed liberal Zionist writing in the Times of Israel, expresses her dismay.
This article was originally published by Jewish News on Fri 22 May 2020. Read the original here.
Israel must reconsider its choice of UK ambassador
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And I thought Mark Regev was the lowest of the low! But Bibi knows oi is possible to sink lower
Should we not publicise her support for Lehava and its appalling antics at every opportunity? I suspect most Brits, including Jews, are unaware of the ‘racial treason’ notion and its prevalence in Israel…. It is up to individuals whether we ‘assimilate’ or not, not to ‘communal leaders’….
Mustn’t mention Nuremberg laws….ooops! there I go again…
Bring it on!
The Israel supporting Jewish community in the U.K. have already performed prodigious moral contortions, in defending the indefensible. Maybe this appointment will be the thing to finally break their determination to refuse to see the horrible reality of the state they support.
The israeli government must hand back the land it stole from the Palestinians, and stop the heinous crimes it continually commits against the Palestinians. Stop stealing and demolishing Palestinian homes!
But if the next Israeli ambassador is a stupid and clumsy nationalist with self-evidently distasteful and racist views, that is surely a great improvement on Regev who is a master of propaganda and has had an extraordinary success in driving ‘the wrong kind of Jews’ to the margins.
The comment that “ The BOD will welcome her with open arms” is biased, contentious and unproven!
Dear All
Thank you Jewish Voice for Labour, for the fabulous support your organisation gives to promote peace and justice, which is tremendous and heart warming.
I would urge people also to protest the views of Maajid Nawaz, who as an LBC presenter, who occasionally projects the Likud perspective.
Originally he was a member of group: Hizb ut-Tahrir.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-british-activist-who-went-from-radical-islam-to-staunch-israel-ally/
Now he appears to sympathise with President Trump’s view on Jerusalem and also heavily criticised former US President Obama for abstaining on UNSC Resolution 2334, which condemned illegal settlements.
His approach to Jackie Walker was less than appealing on LBC.
Thank you.
Best wishes
Ant
The IDF does indeed fight for a country and has done so since 1948 – to grab and annex as much of Palestine as they can; then to impose military rule on the Palestinians….
Pace John Hurwitz, the BoD welcomed Mark Regev with open arms on March 4 2016. And the BoD’s response to the IDF continual murders of Gaza demonstrators was so ‘contentious’ and proactive it had to be withdrawn. We await Mr Hurwitz’ examples of criticism of, or even reservations about, either Regev or Hotovely.