Pro-indy politicians at loggerheads over Israel’s deputy ambassador visit

Back to Scotland, where there appears to be trouble in Holyrood’s progressive paradise. The Scottish government’s Culture Secretary Angus Robertson has received strong backlash after appearing in a photo with Daniela Grudsky, the deputy ambassador of Israel to the UK. It transpires that the Scottish government minister met with Grudsky to discuss ‘culture, renewable energy and engaging with the country’s respective diasporas’. A Scottish government spokesperson added that the discussion ’emphasised the Scottish Government’s continued work with Police Scotland to protect Scotland’s faith communities and tackle all hate crimes, including antisemitism’. But Robertson’s meeting has ruffled feathers – particularly with the SNP’s former coalition partners.

First slamming the party of government for holding a ‘secret meeting‘ – the event took place on 8 August before a government readout was circulated on 12 August – the Scottish Greens have called on the Nats to ‘apologise for this underhand attempt to build closer ties with Israel’.