Pro-Israel groups and figures should face inquiry after ‘take down’ video leak
Shai Masot discusses MPs he wants “taken down” in the leaked video.
While This Writer has to agree with the Israeli Embassy staffer Shai Masot when he says Alan Duncan is an idiot, there are questions about Israel’s policies in the UK that really must be answered now.
Mr Duncan was the fool who criticised everybody in the UK who isn’t a millionaire as “low-achievers”. Of course, he comes from a privileged background.
He is also outspoken against the anti-Palestinian policies of the Israeli government and has denounced the policy of building settlements on Palestinian land, likening Israeli policy to apartheid.
It is clear, then, that this Israeli politician was proposing the removal of British politicians who oppose his own government’s behaviour when he suggested to Maria Strizzolo, Tory Robert Halfon’s former chief of staff, that she “take” him “down” – as shown on a leaked video.
How many other UK politicians have been the subject of Israeli interference? How is the UK government to prevent further such interference?
It seems the Foreign Office considers the matter closed, after Israel apologised.
But the Labour Party is right to demand an inquiry.
Ms Strizzolo has said there was nothing to the conversation – it should not be interpreted as an attempt to instruct the UK government on its ministerial appointments – but this can only be borne out by examination of her actions, and those of Mr Masot.
Mr Masot is also on record as having admitted setting up front groups. These are both party political & “astroturf” (fake grassroots) bodies, including Labour Friends of Israel.
Would these include the organisations we have seen trying to “take down” prominent Labour figures on bogus “anti-Semitism” claims over the last year?
That must be investigated, also.
Until we know how far this rot has set in, we cannot know whether any claims relating to Israel, anti-Semitism or Zionism have solid foundations at all.
It is good that this issue has been revealed but more work must be done.
And those who try to shut it down should be held in suspicion.
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Good article and a brave stance in view of the astroturf revolutionaries.
Don’t know about mr Duncan’s political record as I am not a Brit. However,it was not Mr Duncan but Mr Johnson who was called an’idiot’ by the Israeli major-suddenly-turned-junior-employee in a ridiculous example of plausible deniability. And here I wholeheartedly agree, even as a foreigner. Seeing Johnson’s Public School pupil’s antics during the Brexit campaign and – still worse – his embarassing fumbling as Minister of Foreign Affairs,are enough to come to that conclusion. Brrr!
Ah, ah – the plot thickens….
So let’s get this right: Israel is powerful enough to exert malign influence over British politics, but not powerful enough to prevent it’s dastardly schemes from being rumbled?
If you say so.