It wasn’t anti-Semitic to reject this extreme racist Israeli ambassador
Anti-Hotovely, not anti-Semitic: British-Jewish people protesting against a previous Hotovely event last month.
On the surface, it may have seemed like an angry mob chased Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely from the London School of Economics.
In fact, she was in no danger at all, being protected from protesters by UK police and embassy security personnel:
https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1458218239247405056
But she was booed off the LSE campus – and rightly so.
She is a racist – even anti-Semite, white supremacist war-monger:
If you want to know why the Israeli Ambassador was booed off the LSE campus last night, read this racist screed from 2013, penned by her wig Nakba denying hand. https://t.co/65JH5bJFsB
— Phil Gould 🇵🇸🖕🥁 (@bongosaloon) November 10, 2021
In May @TzipiHotovely was the star speaker at a Zionist demonstration in support of the Israeli embassy in London at which participants called for Palestinian villages to be burned and chanted in support of the genocidal Rabbi Meir Kahane https://t.co/sVonCsmsuu
— Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) November 10, 2021
Israeli ambassador @TzipiHotovely claims there's "no Palestinian people" and has a decades-long track record of support for the West Bank's most violent extremists. She calls for Palestinian homes to be demolished or emptied to make way for Jewish settlers https://t.co/zCxbWJm5OL
— Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) November 10, 2021
Israeli ambassador @TzipiHotovely is such a far-right extremist that she has even called for Israel to invade Jordan and Syria: "We must not settle for preserving what exists" pushing for "the state of Israel expanding” its borders: https://t.co/79kJSjYELU
— Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) November 10, 2021
With such a violently racist ambassador being invited to speak at LSE, it's no wonder that students like @LSEforPalestine didn't want her on campus
— Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) November 10, 2021
Tzipi Hotovely is a right wing extremist who supports the annexation of all Palestinian land and describes the 'nabka' – the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 – as an "Arab lie".
She's the Ambassador of a state deemed by Human Rights Watch to practice Apartheid.
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) November 10, 2021
That’s why 18 student groups signed an open letter expressing outrage that Hotovely had been asked to speak on their campus. They said said Hotovely’s racism was in clear contravention of LSE policies on external speakers.
Protesters turned out in force, outside the building where Hotevely’s lecture took place. The group LSE for Palestine said “students maintained a peaceful protest throughout the evening” and claimed that several students had walked out of the event in protest at Hotovely’s racism:
Official LSE for Palestine Statement on the Protest 09/11/21
There has been a lot of misinformation and misreporting. We hope this clears it up. pic.twitter.com/pdPmVusubg
— LSE for Palestine (@LSEforPalestine) November 10, 2021
Both Conservative and Labour politicians have condemned the demonstration against this anti-Arab, genocidal racist, falsely portraying protesters as violent anti-Semites and condemning “intimidation, harassment and abuse”…
Disgusted by the treatment of the Israeli Ambassador at LSE last night.
Antisemitism has no place in our universities or our country.
I will continue to do everything possible to keep the Jewish community safe from intimidation, harrassment & abuse.
(1/2)
— Priti Patel MP (@pritipatel) November 10, 2021
… that simply did not happen.
A prime example is the contribution by Lisa Nandy, once chair of Labour Friends of Palestine:
The appalling treatment of Israeli Ambassador @TzipiHotovely is completely unacceptable. There is no excuse for this kind of behaviour.
Freedom of speech is a fundamental right and any attempt to silence or intimidate those we disagree with should never be tolerated.
— Lisa Nandy (@lisanandy) November 10, 2021
Now let’s read Daniel Finn’s response to her claim about freedom of speech:
"Freedom of speech is a fundamental right"—unless you're Palestinian, that is, in which case Nandy won't breathe a word in defence of your "fundamental rights." Her commitment to enforcing anti-Palestinian racism and supporting its most fanatical advocates is quite extraordinary. https://t.co/nzqMP6mWHJ pic.twitter.com/iF65ZAGKbZ
— Daniel Finn (@DanFinn95) November 10, 2021
Here’s a sane reaction to the claims of anti-Semitism being spread by such loose-lipped individuals as Nandy, Patel and others:
https://twitter.com/NatalieStrecke1/status/1458440674047668233
And remember that while this was going on, the Israeli government was continuing its campaign of brutal oppression against the Palestinian people:
According to the UK establishment class, if you're a far-right politician representing a brutal racist regime and people boo you outside an event, you're being "silenced".
But if you're a 13 year old child shot to death by the racist regime, you're not being "silenced"!
— Another Angry Voice (@Angry_Voice) November 10, 2021
Like this child?
Abdulrahman Obeidallah, 13, Palestinian child shot right in the heart by #Israel sniper. #Palestine #ICC #BDS pic.twitter.com/IPfQAD1vtn
— Omar Gaza 🇵🇸 (@Omar_Gaza) October 5, 2015
You can bet he’s not saying anything now, though.
And the oppression goes on and on…
Israeli occupation forces destroy water pipes to four Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank.
Where are the human rights for the Palestinian people?
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) November 10, 2021
Yet racists like Hotovely, Patel and Nandy – and all their fellow travellers – are trying to gaslight you into thinking Hotovely is the victim. They are genuinely sickening.
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