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Knesset committee issues STINGING rebuke of Tommy Robinson visit to ‘israel’ saying it is a ‘slap in the face to British and diaspora Jews’.

It’s a complete PR disaster.

He is worried.

He should be.

This mafia doesn’t take kindly to being humiliated. pic.twitter.com/7PP03zpvSz

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Chair of Diaspora Affairs Committee MK Kariv: Invitation to Tommy Robinson to visit Israel is a slap in the face to British and Diaspora Jews; Foreign Ministry official: Issue of Robinson’s visit wasn’t brought before the Ministry

The Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, chaired by MK Gilad Kariv (Labor), convened on Tuesday for a follow-up debate entitled “Policy of the Israeli Government and the Knesset towards extremist political parties with antisemitic roots, and the effect of this policy on Jewish communities in the Diaspora.”

A British right-wing activist known as Tommy Robinson came to Israel last week for a visit, at the invitation of Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli. Major organizations representing the British Jewish community expressed their objection to the invitation extended to Robinson to visit Israel.

Committee Chair MK Kariv: “The campaign being led by a number of ministers and Members of Knesset to legitimize nationalist figures worldwide is incompatible with the State of Israel’s values. The State of Israel has enough supporters around the world in the moderate right wing and also in the moderate left wing, and we don’t need to encourage controversial extremist elements. The invitation extended to Tommy Robinson to Israel and to the Knesset has been condemned by major organizations in Britain. The Government of Israel is well familiar with the position of the Jewish organizations in Britain. Despite the objection of the British Jewish organizations to Robinson’s visit to Israel, the Minister for Diaspora Affairs chose not to listen to the organizations’ position. What kind of message is the State of Israel conveying to the 250,000 Jews in Britain? The Minister for Diaspora Affairs disregarded the position of the Jewish organizations in Britain, and the Ministry for Diaspora Affairs also refused to take part in the debate we are holding today in the committee. This is rudeness and disrespect towards the Jewish communities in Britain and towards the State of Israel’s democratic values. We in the committee will continue to battle against granting legitimacy to controversial people from all ends of the political spectrum. I call from here upon Minister Chikli to apologize to the Jewish organizations in Britain, which were offended as a result of Robinson’s visit to Israel.”

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