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UK Board of Deputies tells visiting far-right MK Smotrich to ‘get back on a plane’

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Published: 11 February 2022

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Top UK body says it rejects Smotrich’s ‘abominable views and hate-provoking ideology’; MK on Euro tour to rally support against conversion and kashrut reform

Top UK Jewish body tells visiting far-right MK Smotrich to ‘get back on a plane’ (Times of Israel)
In a Hebrew tweet, the Board of Deputies of British Jews says it rejects Religious Zionism lawmaker’s ‘abominable views and hate-provoking ideology’

Top British Jewry group tells Smotrich to leave Europe, calls him 'disgrace' (Jerusalem Post)
In a tweet, in Hebrew, the Board of Deputies said that it rejected the Smotrich’s ‘abominable ideology that promotes hatred’

'Get back on the plane': UK Jewish body slams Israeli far-right lawmaker's Europe tour (Haaretz)
Bezalel Smotrich, a lawmaker from a far-right Religious Zionism party, is touring Europe in a bid to rally communal leaders against conversion and kashrut reform in Israel

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