Israel’s new UK ambassador will expose delusions of Britain’s Jewish leaders
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This article was published by Jonathan Cook on 10 July 2020.
We thought it worth waiting to repost until Tzipi Hotovely had taken up her office as Israeli Ambassador to the UK. She is now well embedded in it.
Her record speaks for itself. She is a right-wing ethno-nationalist Islamophobe, hot from her post as first settlements minister in Netanyahu’s government.
Her appointment will be an acid test of the democratic commitments and liberal values professed by most pro-Israel members of the Jewish communities of Britain
This article was originally published by jonathan-cook.net on Fri 10 Jul 2020. Read the original here.
Israel’s new UK ambassador will expose delusions of Britain’s Jewish leaders
With Corbyn the bogeyman gone, Tzipi Hotovely will finally force Britain’s liberal Jews to confront truths about Israel they long ago buried
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What a charmer. Tzipi tells it how it is. It is not nice. Tzipi is rather racist. But Tzipi represents a rather racist, colonialist and right-wing Israeli government. Get real about this, all you establishments out there. Try to see it for what it is.
Please read Anshel Pfeffer and consider warmly welcoming Ambassador Tsipi Hotovely. Not for her repugnant views, but simply for bringing a little more truth and fewer delusions.
This is from Pfeffer’s article last year in Ha’aretz
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-hotovely-is-the-ugly-extremist-face-of-israel-british-jews-should-welcome-her-1.8932375
“As an Israeli, I hate the fact that Hotovely will be representing my country in the country of my birth. As a British Jew, I hate the fact that Hotovely will be Israel’s public face in Britain for the next few years. She embodies much of what is ugly and distressing about Israeli politics at this time in its history. But campaigning for her rejection by Her Majesty’s Government is a bad idea. Not least because that’s not going to happen.
For the last decade, Israel has been represented in Britain by career diplomats and consummate civil servants like Regev and his predecessors Daniel Taub and Ron Prosor. Sophisticated and cosmopolitan, adept at talking to (almost) any Jewish group, no matter their political or religious persuasion. Men with pleasant accents, who could lull a liberal audience in to forgetting for a while that they represented a Netanyahu government. They were experts at softening the edges of Israeli policy, and made you feel that they embodied not just the right-wing government, but also the other more user-friendly parts.”