British Museum hosts Israeli 77th independence anniversary celebration
Imran Mulla – Middle East Eye May 15, 2025
On Tuesday, staff at the British Museum were reportedly told there would be a “large corporate event” that evening.
They said they were asked to leave work early. That evening, British ministers and prominent politicians were seen arriving at the country’s largest museum. So was Jimmy Carr, one of Britain’s most prominent television personalities.
The event, which had not been advertised, was no corporate affair. This clandestine party had been organised by the Israeli embassy to celebrate the anniversary of Israel’s 77th Independence Day.
Word of the event had been leaked and pro-Palestine protesters arrived outside the museum gates, where they were greeted by the Metropolitan Police – who penned them into a side street.
Inside the museum, the Labour ministers in attendance could listen to entertainment by the host, Carr, while rubbing shoulders with prominent opposition politicians who had been invited to the exclusive bash.
Among them was Nigel Farage – leader of Reform UK, which polls regularly indicate is the most popular party in the country.
Also seen was Kemi Badenoch – leader of the Conservative party.
It was quite a statement for these British politicians to attend an event at which the keynote speech was given by Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely, who once called the Nakba an “Arab lie” and is an avowed opponent of the creation of a Palestinian state.
More so, given that it has been less than a week since Israel’s security cabinet approved a plan to “capture” Gaza and hold its territory, and Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich vowed that Gaza would be entirely destroyed.
Moreover, earlier on Tuesday, the British government was in court facing a legal challenge over its decision to allow the export of F-35 parts to a global pool that could eventually end up in Israeli jets.
Monstrous that UK Government Ministers can still party in London, celebrating the British contribution to Israel’s Gaza Genocide, even as starvation stalks 2 million civilians & Netanyahu publicly makes clear that he intends ethnic cleansing for the entire Palestinian population https://t.co/rT4o2guP8l
— William Dalrymple (@DalrympleWill) May 15, 2025
Hotovely is herself no stranger to controversy. She takes an interventionist approach to British politics.
In recent months, for example, the ambassador issued an official complaint to the BBC over a documentary it aired on children in Gaza, because the child’s narrator was the son of a minister in Gaza. The film was ultimately pulled.
She also launched an unexpected attack on the mayor of London over his annual Eid al-Fitr message. The Israeli embassy accused him of “spouting Hamas propaganda” for talking about suffering in Gaza (Sadiq Khan’s office responded accurately that he has “repeatedly” condemned Hamas).
“Israel knows how to party,” wrote journalist Jonny Gould in the caption of a photo he posted of himself in the museum, posing with a delighted-looking Farage.
The walls inside the insitution, which is publicly funded, were lit up in blue and white, the colours of the Israeli flag, and the Israeli national anthem was played.
Speech by British minister
The party was imbued with a serious air when Britain’s minister for defence procurement and industry, Maria Eagle, took to the stage to give a speech.
She boasted about the regular Royal Air Force spy planes that have been flying over Gaza on reconnaissance missions, and of Britain’s help in defending Israel from Iranian attacks.
“The UK stood with Israel, with the RAF conducting surveillance flights over the Eastern Mediterranean in support of hostage rescue efforts,” Eagle told a rowdy crowd.
“We stood with Israel; when Iran launched its reckless coordinated missile and drone attacks, with RAF aircraft intercepting a number of them.”
She said that “it’s been hard over the last couple of years to see Israel going through some of the most difficult times in its history”.
But it was unclear how much of the speech the crowd heard.
At one point a guest walked onto the stage and took the microphone from Eagle. “She’s speaking. I know we’re Israeli, I know we don’t like listening for long,” she told the partygoers, “but please, give her five more minutes, it’s really embarassing.”
Eagle took it in her stride. “I’m a politician – I expect people to speak over me. You just carry on regardless,” she said.
The minister called for “a deal that brings a stop to the fighting, enables the release of all hostages, gets the aid flowing and establishes a political horizon with a credible and irreversible path for peace”.
It is unlikely that Hotovely approved of this sentiment. Her own keynote speech focused on emphasising the threat of Iran (“the most dangerous state actor in the world today”) and the need to dismantle its nuclear enrichment programme.
Stephen Crabb, a former Tory minister, was seen at the event. So was Lord Ian Austin, Britain’s trade envoy to Israel.
Middle East Eye spoke to Energy Embargo for Palestine (EEFP), which describes itself as an “anti-imperialist climate organisation” and organised the protest outside the museum.
“It is not lost on us that Maria Eagle’s speech in the British Museum comes on the same day that the UK government was brought to court by [legal groups] Glan and Al-Haq,” an EEFP spokesperson said.
The spokesperson added that EEFP has “exposed the true face of the British Museum, which presents as a progressive institution”, and that British Museum staff members were “lied to”.
MEE has asked the British Museum for comment.
british people wonder why their politicians are such a failure ?
the truth is they are not there for you
rothschild does not place these folk for your benefit
people tried to help like oswald mosely william joyce enoch powell
and get pushed to the side
the more you go out to vote the more rothschild puppets you get
think about it
Doctor Who star migrant Ncuti Gatwa will be replaced as the UK’s spokesperson for the Eurovision Song Contest, due to “unforeseen circumstances”, the BBC has said.
The 32-year-old migrant actor, rose to fame in Sex Education, had been due to reveal the points given by the UK national jury to other contestants during the competition’s grand finale in Basel, Switzerland, on Saturday.
His remarks in support of palestine
His opinions have upset the jews who run the show and the BBC
What, farage is a jew too? Who’d have believed it?
It’s interesting that the kikes and their whores have to skulk in private for their little horrible gatherings to “celebrate” ira-hell.
Warnings that Israel would be destroyed by fire, I posted on Facebook ages ago; Zionist Britain and other Zionist-controlled countries will be destroyed in a similar manner.
Jimmy Carr is very anti-Christian, with his vanity and profanity, callousness and atheism, and this is where you end up if you do that. It seems to him that the Jews had already discovered those four traits
Well, in case there was any doubt, there you have folks… it couldnt be any plainer:
UK and its ‘bought & paid-for’ sneaky, spineless, snivelling pissant politicians not only OWNED lock, stock & barrel by (((The Lobby)))… but also CRIMINALLY COMPLICIT in genocide.. and rubbing your noses in THAT by hosting The Butchers Of Gaza in the BRITISH Museum!!
Karma is gonna be a FKIN BITCH… count on it!!
I think there’s something strange about Nigel Farage. It’s the way he laughs. He looks like the Joker in Batman – no offence to the Joker in Batman! 😉🤢
BTW…
.. not knowing who the fck she was..
I forced myself to listen to ‘maggot-gagger’ Maria Eagle… and – surprise! surprise! – yet ANOTHER insufferable “facially-challenged” Dumb Fat Fkin Bitch from Britain’s ‘Political Pantheon Of Porcine-Faced Bull-Dykes!!🙄
As for Jimmy Carr…. a talentless THICKBrit Wanker if ever there was one.. so its hardly surprising he’s “one of Britain’s most prominent television personalities”… is it??😒
Where were a few platoons of determined Einsatzgruppen armed with machine guns, flame throwers, and hatchets when we really needed them?
Yah for Israel! Yeah for its conquest of England! Yah for the genocide of those terrorists! Yah for the “gift” of England to the Zionist state! Yah for the natural resources offshore of Gaza and the contracts with Big Oil to develop them! Yah for the expulsion of the terrorists from the land of Judea and Samara! Yah for Israel! Yah for the Zionist International! Yah for Greater Israel! Yahweh ascendant! Yahweh! Yahweh! Yahweh gave the world to us! Yahweh has Chosen us!
Tory and Labour are two ends of the same turd and Reform is that bit in between.
So Nigel Farage is in league with these scum too? Not surprising of course. This brings to mind what I think should be the latter-day “motto” of the American, British, and indeed, the people of the west in general:
“Sometimes I think it’s a sin
When I feel like I’m winnin’ when I’m losin’ again”
from the song “Sundown”, a Neil Young classic.
I was right of course Jimmy Carr is a dirty sleazy scumbag crypto jew……
A lot of wokists attend his shows so this will result in a fall off of attendance figures.
Then there was the appearance of Nigel “Strangely Brown” Farage……his role in all this may simply be as a disrupted….in which case he is doing a good job.
As the French saying goes “perfidious Albion”….meaning the treachery within British politics makes it very difficult to mount opposition to trash like Starmer-steen.
The objective will no doubt be to break up and disrupt opposition to the crypto jew Starmer……Obviously a quick “dealing” with Starmer would be efficacious…..but unlikely.
LOL…
“It’s the jooz. stoopid!”…
Dear Dear.. Jimmy Carr… the rot really is deep.
..Archibald Maule Ramsey many many years ago put a little pamphlet together detailing the infiltration of the the lol ‘establishment’ ..hehe ‘families’…
It was, as you can imagine extensive…Which brings to mind, something some famous Froggy who I cant remember the name of said in the nineteenth century…which paraphrased ran thus:
“Whenever one has the misfortune to run into the British aristocracy nowadays, one could be forgiven thinking that you were dealing with a synagog of Eastern European rag peddlers”..
Yup…it’s gone, time to close the coffin lid and bury it…
@ dwd. I also like the song ‘Sundown’ but it’s by Gordon Lightfoot (another Canadian like Neil Young) from around 1974.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IBdZ645S-o
sorry that the palestinians + we folk dont have so
much money to be spend to make us well recieved
in the world . the rich are buying love from corrupted .
“..synagog of Eastern European rag peddlers..”
nice one Ches
its amazing what a complete lack of morals, networking & professional lying will get you!
we pay for these xxxxx with our money, children, country & future
you dont politely ask a disease to leave your body..
YOU EXTERMINATE IT
(((The Sainsbury Wing of the BM no doubt)))…
lets make sure the kikes occupy a small cabinet in the corner of the BM in the future…as a relic of a past corrupt aberration
the mention of nevile chamberlians secretary archibald maul-ramsey
is pertinent here
he wrote a book explaining the truth of w w 2
and was put in prison for it
the ” name less war” is on line and should be read by all
The boss of the BBC is a crypto jew….without doubt.
The there is Dan Wootton.He is an obvious jew originally from NZ.
Of course almost ALL his guests are also crypto jews…..
Currently Gary Lineker the highest paid employee of the BBC is pretending to be “anti-semitic”…in yet another BBC jewish scam.
Linekers brother owns a nightclub in Marbella Spain….so the fiends are moving back in numbers as they do.(same story in Portugal. .. INCLUDING crypto jews Harry&Meaghan…..they prefer hot countries…….it is no coincidence The place is known as the Costa del Crime..Recall that the Belearics had investment from Franco (a Sephardic origin jewish name) post 60’s……Incidently at one point Franco was protected by a Moroccan bodyguard…..MOST likely Donmeh.
Know Your (((Enemy)))
Schneerson Speech:
https://fitzinfo.net/2025/02/27/alleged-schneerson-speech-in-spirit-of-protocols-of-zion-eliminate-ethnic-slavs-through-subversion-and-warfare-jewish-power-based-in-the-crimea/
Point No 7. Money
7. But money is most important. Money does everything. Money is power. Money is force. The man with money has weapons, most advanced weapons, and the army of mercenaries. Money owns media, which is fooling the billions of human cattle. Money bribes the people we need. Money eliminates those who do not submit to us. Money bombs those resisting us – Iraqis, Serbs, and, in the future – Russians. Capital and taking power decide everything. We practice our skills in the accumulation of capital and the seizure of power for more than three millennia, and no one will defeat us in this. You [cattle] do not have money. You [cattle] do not have power. And you [cattle] will not ever have money and power. We will not give money and power to you!
We hate you immensely! This hatred gives us strength to smile charmingly in your face. Our hatred gives us strength to win your trust and control you [cattle] under the guise of “care” about you and your children, grandchildren and your great grandchildren who would never be born.
You (herd) are doomed. And until you understand this simple truth, as long as you continue resisting us, you will be beaten more than it is due. If you obey us, there will be 65 – 70 million of you left, otherwise – 40-45 mln.
The main thing for us now is to hold on for at least another 2-3 years. After that, there will be no problems for us in this country (Ukraine and Russia). We will create such protective means that none of you will be able to oppose us. We know and secretly control all that will be. And no one can stop us!
THIS IS THE KEY – TAKE BACK OUR MONEY & THEY ARE FUCKED!!!
pop a few cans of Zyklon B thru the windows..
Luvverly Jubberly!
Par for the course with these scavenger politicians, their feral equivalents in the EU do exactly the same thing of course.
Nice contrast here with ‘best western’ politicos in the EU thundering against anybody daring to attend Moscow’s 80th Victory celebrations on the 9th May. No supporting Putin’s war crimes!! EU officials’ lust for total war and re-writing history guarantees this.
The fat whore that is organized society run by the chosen, lifted up her skirt and the rank stench of evil, hypocrisy and cruelty was beyond belief.