Footage of Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s ambassador to the UK, being confronted by pro-Palestinian protesters outside the London School of Economics spread around the world this week. A video shared on Twitter showed the Ambassador, who was giving a speech at the university, being rushed into a car by her security team as police held back protesters. But what did Hotovely make of it?
Speaking on Spectator TV this week, Hotovely said her team were told about ‘a big pressure to cancel the lecture’ beforehand, and that the protests were ‘outrageous’ and ‘shouldn’t have happened’.
Hotovely is on the right of Israeli politics, but the grim scenes that unfolded outside the LSE united the Tories and Labour here. Home Secretary Priti Patel said she was ‘disgusted’ at the protests, and gave her backing to a police investigation into what happened at the LSE. Lisa Nandy, the shadow foreign secretary, said the ambassador’s treatment was ‘appalling’.
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