Priti Patel doesn’t seem to know what BDS is about. Is that why she wants to ban it?
Smug supporter of apartheid: this was the look on Priti Patel’s face when she left Downing Street in November 2017, having been forced to resign from Theresa May’s Cabinet for trying to run her own foreign policy, apparently as an asset of Israel. Now she wants to outlaw the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in another overt display of support for that country’s persecution of Palestinians.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against apartheid Israel is “racist and anti-Semitic”, according to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel who seems not to understand what it is about.
“Holding the Jewish community collectively responsible for what happens in the Middle East by my definition is racist,” Patel said.
But that is not what BDS does. It holds Israel responsible for the actions of its government against the people of Palestine.
Israel is not “the Jewish community” and Palestine is not “what happens in the Middle East” – unless the person suggesting it is deliberately trying to blur the issues, or doesn’t understand them.
This Writer is not going to put forward an opinion on which of those best sums up Patel’s mindset.
But I will point out that she was ordered to resign from Theresa May’s Cabinet after she had been exposed as trying to run her own foreign policy, independent of the UK’s, favouring Israel.
To quote the Another Angry Voice article of the time that best sums up her behaviour,
Priti Patel decided to completely ignore the ministerial code of conduct by holding a number of political meetings in Israel without informing the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, without informing the UK embassy in Israel, and without informing the Prime Minister.
She then dug herself deeper into her hole when she was caught by lying that the Foreign Office had known about her meetings at the time, and ‘forgetting’ to mention the most significant meeting of all that she had with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
She … only admitted this stuff because she got caught, and that it would all still be secret if she hadn’t been busted.
For Priti Patel to have arranged all these meetings in secret, it seems highly likely that she would have used her own communications devices to make the arrangements, rather than a FCO approved device. An obvious security risk.
The next thing to note is that all FCO approved meetings require security and sweeping for bugs. Presumably none of that happened, which is another security risk.
The next problem is that no proper records were kept of the meetings, or what was discussed in the meetings, which opens Patel up to suspicions that she could have subjected to blackmail or bribery, especially if she then starts behaving in the interest of the foreign state.
Which brings us to Patel’s conduct upon her return to the UK: She quickly started making inquiries into whether part of the UK Foreign Aid budget could be diverted in order to fund the Israeli military in the occupied Golan Heights (a policy that would have been in Israel’s interests, and that a significant percentage of British people would have been horrified by).
Additionally she told nobody that she was making these inquiries about using the foreign aid budget to fund the Israeli military as a result of her secretive meetings in Israel.
This request makes it seem that Patel was behaving like an asset of the Israeli state, working on their behalf as an operative within the UK government.
Doesn’t that seem an accurate description of Patel’s activities now – “behaving like an asset of the Israeli state, working on their behalf as an operative within the UK government”?
Source: ‘BDS movement is antisemitic,’ British Home Secretary says
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Patel was sacked by May for acting as as an agent of Israel. Was May guilty of antisemitism? No doubt Stormer would think so.
What I found most interesting was when the BBC kept talking about Denmark sending Asylum seekers to Rwanda and conveniently not mentioning Israel doing the same as well as sending them to Patel’s parent’s homeland Uganda – they very slowly started to release this info much later.
That to me shows Israel’s influence on UK Immigration policy via Patel.
Yes – this is from the Times of Israel: “Israel sent several thousand people to Rwanda and Uganda under a contentious and secretive “voluntary” scheme between 2014 and 2017. Few are believed to have remained there, with many trying to reach Europe.”