Published: 23 June 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Outrage as hardliner is chosen as next Israeli ambassador to UK (Guardian)
The appointment of a hardline supporter of the annexation of Palestinian land as the next Israeli ambassador to the UK has dismayed sections of the British Jewish community, with some calling on the UK government to refuse to accept the nomination.
Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s settlements minister, has been named by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the successor to Mark Regev, who stepped down as ambassador to the UK last week.
She has described herself as “a religious rightwinger” and rejects Palestinian claims to any part of the West Bank, Gaza or East Jerusalem. In a speech in 2015, she said Israel had tried too hard to appease the world. “This land is ours. All of it is ours. We did not come here to apologise for that.”
Tzipi Hotovely is the ugly, extremist face of Israel; British Jews should welcome her (Haaretz)
ANSHEL PFEFFER: Israel has been represented for too long by urbane professionals who lull a liberal audience into forgetting they represent a Netanyahu government
Photo: Tzipi Hotovely in Washington, 2017 (Shmulik Almany/MFA)
