Far-right extremist and Islamophobe Hotovely should be nowhere near the Labour Party
The Labour Muslim Network has written to leader of the Labour Party Keir Starmer outlining an expectation “that no further engagements be made or platforms shared by Labour Party representatives with the current Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely”.
Hotovely: an extremist and an Islamophobe
Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom Hotovely made clear in a Sky News interview last week that Israel will never accept a Palestinian state. When pressed on the question of an independent Palestinian state in the future, Hotovely answered without equivocation “the answer is absolutely no.” A two-state solution has been the policy of the Labour Party, the UK, and has had international consensus, for decades.
Moreover, Hotovely is considered to be far-right politically by many people. She has repeatedly denied Israel is causing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Hotovely also repeated the lie that Hamas had beheaded 40 babies on 7 October. Moreover, as Middle East Eye wrote:
Hotovely’s comments are not new. In 2013, when she was a member of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, Hotovely previously wrote a policy paper titled “The five-stage plan for the Greater Land of Israel“, outlining the steps Israel should take to prevent a Palestinian state.
“The long years of propaganda for the vision of ‘two states for two peoples’ have obstructed the most basic desire harboured by a majority of Israeli citizens – not to give up territory that was conquered through blood,” Hotovely wrote in the essay translated by Na’amod, a UK-based Jewish organisation that opposes the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.
Labour Muslim Network said in a statement:
It is clear for all to see, the ambassador is no partner in peace.
The right of self determination for Palestinians and an independent Palestinian state has been a long standing position for the Labour Party, for the United Kingdom and for the international community. To deny the right of Palestine to exist as an independent state is not only Islamophobic, but also completely contrary to international consensus.
It is difficult to read this report and reach any other conclusion than there being institutional Islamophobia within the Labour Party.
Any Labour representatives that shares engagements and/or platforms with Ms Hotovely would not only be legitimising her extreme positions, but could also be violating our Islamophobia code of conduct.
🚨 Today the Labour Muslim Network has written to Labour leader Keir Starmer regarding Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely.
Denying the right of Palestine to exist is clearly Islamophobic and contrary to Labour Party policy and international consensus.
We expect that no further… pic.twitter.com/q6HPD8jWuJ
— Labour Muslim Network (@LabourMuslims) December 19, 2023
So far, it appears neither Starmer nor the party has responded.
You can sign a petition calling on the UK government to expel Hotovely here.
Featured image via UK government – Flickr
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If denying the right of Palestine to exist is clearly Islamophobic then denying the right of Israel to exist is clearly anti semitic so thats most of the pro palestinian supporters in the canary and other far left rags in the Nazi camp.Cheers for clearing that up.
But Palestinians ARE semitic. Not all Israelis are.
See Shredni, people like you who’ve used claims of anti-semitism in order to try to justify the actions of Israel, what you’ve done is devalued the concept totally.
How far would you like to take it ? Should the Israeli football team automatically be awarded the World Cup, on the grounds that any team trying to beat them would be, by your definition, anti-semitic ?
The bottom line is that if you’re busy conducting a genocide, crying “anti-semitism” doesn’t make it any less genocidal.
That is like saying denying South Africa the ‘right’ to have Apartheid is anti-Boer. It only makes sense TO the far-right, who fantasise about “Ethno-states”. Palestine was, and will be, a multi-ethnic democracy on western Liberal Democracy lines, with equal rights of religious worship and citizenship.
It is not Hamas murdering Gaza’s Christians, it is Israel. And the West Bank’s.
It is so funny hearing the far-right racists accuse others of far-right racism with venom, it shows their own self-loathing.
If an Israeli attacks my child you and those like you would shriek the devalued “antisemitism” crap were I to defend my child. Israel has one ambition in Gaza that is to eliminate the civilian population and occupy the ethnically cleansed area. Your defence of Israeli genocide is defending the indefensible and Israeli leaders state their intentions public ally. Try reading some history!!
Forgot to mention that almost all my info on Israel/Palestine is from Jews, British and Israeli. Their condemnation of Israel is more vehement than non- Jews. I suppose Shredni would join Starmer in claiming that Jews who refuse to submit to Israeli propaganda are “antisemitic”. This concept of “antisemitic” Jews is an invention of Starmer with whom Shredni, would, no doubt, mindlessly agree.
As “Red Star” says:
Palestinians are a Semitic people speaking a Semitic language in their traditional lands.
Not all Israelis are ethnically Semitic.
Neither are many of the international diaspora who identify as Jewish actually of Jewish descent.
The far-right extremist and racist views of Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely even horrify some of her own people.
Yes. Just like the open corruption of Resnikov horrified many of his.
But that’s Tory Britain for you.