Petition was over 100,000 signatures when removed ‘for review’
A huge petition by signed by the British people to demand the expulsion from the UK of far-right Israeli ambassador Tsipi Hotovely has been deactivated by petition hosting site change.org.
The petition had been signed by more than 100,000 people – the point at which it should trigger a formal debate on the topic in Parliament:
But anyone attempting to read or sign the petition now is unable to do so – because change.org has removed it for ‘review’:
The petition was started after Hotovely, a far-right figure described by Israeli paper Haaretz as ‘the ugly, extremist face of Israel’, justified Israel’s flattening of Gaza and mass killing of civilians during an interview on LBC last week:
Hotovely went on to claim that the IDF was killing children because Hamas was parading them ‘in front of every place the IDF soldiers were getting’. Israel has killed more than 30,000 people in Gaza so far, more than two thirds of them children and women, and has forcibly displaced almost two million Gazan Palestinians. It now faces charges of genocide at the international Court of Justice brought by South Africa.
Change.org has been contacted for comment on its reasons for removing the petition.
Update: the page was reinstated at some point afterward.
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