FOI demand in Israel reveals how many are happy to cosy up to Israeli ambassador despite genocide incitement

Far-right Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely is notorious for comments justifying the destruction of Gaza’s schools, hospitals and homes, telling LBC that “every school, every mosque, every second house” in Gaza is cover for Hamas tunnels and is a legitimate target, and that “all” Hamas command headquarters are in Gaza’s hospitals – a long disproven lie.
This has not prevented the UK government consulting with her and her staff about which anti-genocide protesters to prosecute or ban, stopped a string of Labour MPs and ministers cosying up to her during Israel’s genocide in Gaza. or prevented the BBC kowtowing to her demands for censorship of its coverage of Israel’s slaughter and starvation of Palestinians.

And now a Freedom of Information request in Israel by Hatzlacha NGO lawyer Elad Man has exposed Hotovely’s diary and passed it to Declassified UK – and it reveals a procession of Labour donors, MPs, lobby groups and businesspeople holding meetings – often repeatedly – with her, including some of the most notorious pro-Israel and anti-left figures of the past decade:
• Israel fanatic and now MP Luke Akehurst
• Government minister Lisa Nandy
• Michael Rubin, ‘star’ of Al Jazeera’s undercover documentary ‘The Lobby’
• Conservative and Labour ‘Friends of Israel’ representatives, including MP and LFI chair Jon Pearce and CFI president Lord Polak, who described becoming a peer as a “once in a lifetime opportunity” to promote Israel
• Israeli venture capitalist and massive Labour-right donor Stuart Roden, who has accused anti-genocide protesters of murdering children
• Jonathan Goldstein, funder of Foreign Secretary David Lammy and mate of Keir Starmer – accompanying Starmer to football matches on free tickets
• business bosses investing in and doing business with Israel during the genocide
• Pro-Israel propagandists and PR specialists
and more.
Read the full Declassified UK article here for details.
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She is, (IMHO of course, formed without ever meeting the woman, unlike half the Laboure Party it seems), a thoroughly unpleasant woman
To them I say
Fuck you, jews AND non-jews
Because advocating for, and enabling (passively or aggresively) a genocide makes YOU a c*nt.
And just happening to be jewish is NO mitigation, and NO immunity from criticism or disgust.
Advocating, covering and aiding and abetting genocide and those carrying it out by any MP, Minister or media hack for a handful of shekels makes you guilty of treason against the interests of the Country on behalf of a foreign Government.
Hang the lot of the treasonous parasites, and then proscribe Zionism and outlaw all the FoI groups as foreign terrorist agents.
Hang the lot of the treasonous parasites, and then proscribe Zionism and outlaw all the FoI groups as foreign terrorist agents
Oh yes, indeedy!
Just like their 2000lb bombs, their bullets and their attitude towards civilians, the rope I’ll happily supply won’t discriminate.
The arrests warrants and justice is coming.
I was in a pub last night with a friend and the Super Cup football was on the TV.
I noticed the interesting EUFA statement on the pitch but I thought it didn’t name the bloody perpetrator, it didn’t say who, it could have been in any country in the bloody world?
Then some lumpen Zionist’s piled in which is very interesting, and as usual they were treating Jewish people as an homogenous group when of course they are wonderfully diverse with some left wing, some right wing, some liberal, centrist, non political, Anti Zionist & Zionist.
None of us have a monopoly of ideas.
Someone recently said if you put on advertising billboards around the world ‘He’s An Idiot Isn’t He?’ 90% of the world would know who you are on about.
So perhaps global billboards should say ‘Stop The Genocide.’
Bazza – “I noticed the interesting EUFA statement on the pitch”
This one?
UEFA Displays ‘Stop Killing Children’ Banner at Super Cup Game
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/uefa-displays-stop-killing-children-banner-at-super-cup-game/
“Someone recently said if you put on advertising billboards around the world ‘He’s An Idiot Isn’t He?’ 90% of the world would know who you are on about.”
That would be 100% when Trump filed for libel!!!!
I suspect you mean copyright on the title rather than libel.
No, libel. It would only be copyright if Trump had written it himself.