SNP in civil war over Israel deputy ambassador meet

It’s a day that ends in ‘y’ so the nationalists are fighting amongst themselves again. This time it’s over a controversial meeting between the Scottish government’s Culture Secretary Angus Robertson and Daniela Grudsky, the deputy ambassador of Israel to the UK. As Mr S revealed this week, certain Nats were rather upset about the encounter, in which discussions about energy, culture and the Middle East took place. Aberdeen Central MSP Kevin Stewart writing that: ‘I hope Angus Robertson also demanded an immediate ceasefire’ while his colleague Elena Whitham tweeted out, um, a sad face emoji. You can always rely on the SNP for serious politics, eh?

The SNP’s National Secretary Lorna Finn has taken to Twitter to rage about her ‘disappointment‘ and has called for ‘much soul searching’ over the meeting. Meanwhile the SNP Friends of Palestine group – of which Humza Yousaf’s wife Nadia El-Nakla was recently convenor – has posted six-tweet thread about how it was ‘shocked