Jonathan Cook – jonathan-cook.net June 5, 2025
It is long past time Tzipi Hotovely was expelled from London. Starmer’s inaction proves he has no intention of stopping his support for Israel’s crimes in Gaza
Keir Starmer has been desperately searching for ways to make it look as if his government is getting tough with Israel.
As public anger grows at images from Gaza of emaciated children, echoing historic images of Jewish children being starved in Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz, the British prime minister needs to be seen doing something.
There are many ways he could take meaningful action to end the UK’s complicity in Israel’s saturation bombing of Gaza and its starvation of the enclave’s population.
He could stop shipping arms to Israel, and stop transferring weapons from the United States and Germany. He could stop supplying Israel with intelligence from British spy planes that have been constantly operating over Gaza from RAF’s Akrotiri base on Cyprus.
He could recognise Palestine. He could prosecute British-Israeli soldiers taking part in the genocide. He could stop hosting suspected Israeli war criminals in London, as Declassified has documented. He could tear up special trade agreements with Israel. The list goes on.
Has he done any of this? No.
Sham sanctions
Nominal “punishment” came last September when Starmer very publicly announced a cut in UK arms sales to Israel. He hoped no one would read the small print: it amounted to a paltry eight per cent reduction.
But even this turned out to be a sham. In fact, as data released last month showed, British arms sales to Israel hit record levels in the three months following the announcement.
The only other significant sanction against Israel was not even tangible. Starmer declared last month he was suspending – that is, postponing – a new round of trade talks with Israel until it stopped blocking aid to Gaza.
Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, was summoned to the Foreign Office to have the decision communicated to her.
In fact, that slap on the wrist appears to have been chiefly spin too.
Shortly afterwards, the UK embassy in Israel tweeted an image of Ian Austin, the government’s trade envoy to Israel, on a visit to the Israeli city of Haifa.
When questioned by the Financial Times about why Austin was in Israel, Starmer’s government said Britain was still keen to maintain its existing business relationships.
The truth is that even the government’s highly circumscribed “sanctions” against Israel are nothing more than hollow threats. It has been, and continues to be, business as usual with Israel throughout the Gaza genocide.
Propagandist for genocide
What Starmer and his foreign secretary, David Lammy, should have done – had they even the slightest interest in distancing themselves from Israel’s genocidal extremism – is not just summon Hotovely for another apologetic chat but actually demand her expulsion.
Such an action is necessary not chiefly because she is the main representative in London of a genocidal Israeli government. There is an argument to be made that the UK government needs direct diplomatic channels of communication with Israel, even during a genocide.
But unlike her predecessors, Hotovely is not a diplomat. She is a hard-right politician – a loyal ally of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who has served for the past 20 months as the leading apologist and cheerleader for genocide on British soil.
Her constant incitement has been in flagrant violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention to which the UK is a signatory. Britain has a legal obligation to remove her from a post in which she has fomented support in Britain for the most serious crimes against humanity.
The UK is effectively sheltering a war crimes suspect.
Her influence is likely to have contributed to the commission of crimes by British citizens travelling abroad to join the Israeli military.
After her expulsion, Israel would be entitled to replace her with a real diplomat, one who operates within the confines of British and international law.
But Britain should not be hosting a foreign official acting as a propagandist for genocide.
An online petition, set up in December 2023, calling for the Israeli ambassador to be expelled has attracted more than 170,000 verified signatures – an unprecedented public display of disgust at her continuing presence in the UK.
Inciting violence
It is preposterous for Starmer to blame Netanyahu for “horrific” and “intolerable” scenes in Gaza when one of the Israeli prime minister’s most fanatical aides is comfortably ensconced in London justifying these horrors.
It was Hotovely who less than three months into Israel’s slaughter in Gaza rationalised its crimes by claiming a supposed Hamas underground “terror city” was connected by tunnels to “every school, every mosque, every second house”.
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The journalist interviewing her interjected that this was “an argument for destroying the whole of Gaza, every single building”. Which, of course, is exactly what Israel has gone on to do.
Hotovely responded: “Do you have another solution?”
Her “solution” has left Gaza without any of the basic infrastructure – homes, hospitals, schools, bakeries, government offices, water treatment plants – needed for its population to survive.
She was inciting again last month when she appeared on the popular online chat show Piers Morgan Uncensored. Under unusually tough questioning from Morgan, she asserted in defiance of international law that Israel was “allowed to attack hospitals”.
When Morgan pressed her repeatedly to explain how she could claim Israel has a low civilian to combatant kill ratio when she had no idea how many children Israel had killed in Gaza, Hotovely twice responded: “That’s irrelevant.”
As Morgan pointed out, Hotovely’s dismissal of the death toll among Gaza’s children suggested she regarded those deaths as inconsequential. A less benign reading of her refusal to answer was that she sees those children as legitimate targets.
The official number of children killed – almost certainly a large undercount – is 16,500. Last week a senior Unicef official assessed there may be in excess of 50,000 children dead or injured.
‘All the land is ours’
Hotovely’s incitement did not come out of nowhere. When Netanyahu appointed her as his deputy foreign minister in 2015, she insisted that the Palestinians would never be allowed a state on any part of their historic homeland.
She said: “This land is ours. All of it is ours.”
In 2019, she accused the fervently Israel-supporting British Board of Deputies of “working against Israeli interests” after it tentatively expressed support for a “viable Palestinian state”.
She again reiterated that position in December 2023, as ambassador, saying she did not accept the positions of the UK government and the United Nations in support of an independent Palestinian state.
She referred to Palestinians as a “radical people” – a racist and dehumanising formulation intended to suggest that there could be no peace with the Palestinians and that Israel was therefore justified in slaughtering them.
Making sure no one could misunderstand what she means by the extent of Israel’s sovereignty, she has observed: “Between the sea and the Jordan River, there needs to be one state, only the state of Israel”.
Notably, in an act of pure projection, Hotovely has claimed that, in contrast to her own ethnic supremacist agenda, pro-Palestinian demonstrators who call for equal rights for Jews and Palestinians in the same area – “between the river and the sea” – are calling for genocide.
In late 2023, she claimed Jews “don’t feel safe” on London’s streets because of the large marches against Israel’s genocide in Gaza: “They [British Jews] see the same jihadi ideology on the streets of London as in Gaza.”
Hotovely’s history
Hotovely made her name in Netanyahu’s Likud party early on, when she was still a young backbench MP. In 2009, she openly called for the annexation of the West Bank, before that position all but became official Israeli policy.
In 2013 she developed a blueprint for annexation in an essay titled “The five-stage plan for the Greater Land of Israel”. It included a provision in which only those serving in Israel’s army would qualify for citizenship – a transparent way to exclude Palestinians from meaningful rights.
Her fanaticism earnt her the position in 2020 of Israel’s first-ever minister for the settlements. She views these illegal, Jewish-only colonies – declared illegal by the International Court of Justice last year – as a weapon to dispossess Palestinians and deprive them of any hope of Palestinian statehood.
Hotovely is openly Islamophobic and denies the history of the Palestinian people. In 2020, shortly after taking up her position as ambassador, she called the Nakba – the well-documented expulsion in 1948 of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians by the newly declared state of Israel – an “Arab lie”.
She has been supportive of hardline Jewish racial purity groups, such as Lehava, that try to stop relationships between Jews and non-Jews.
And she backs Israel’s takeover of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, one of the most important Islamic sites in the world. Such a move could set the Middle East on fire.
Radicalising UK Jews
The Israeli ambassador has been undermining British foreign policy towards Israel and Palestine ever since she was appointed to the post five years ago. At that time, there was a campaign by British Jews to stop her bringing her extremist agenda to the UK.
Liberal Jewish community leaders were appalled at the prospect. Jeremy Beecham, a Labour peer, warned that her appointment would “do nothing to win friends in the UK – or indeed any other reasonable country”.
Notably, Britain operates a draconian Prevent programme ostensibly aimed at stopping the radicalisation of minority communities. In practice, it has focused on targeting – and stigmatising – British Muslims, presenting them as especially susceptible to extremism and supportive of terrorism.
However, Hotovely illustrates the way the very same British establishment so obsessed with curbing Muslim extremism not only tolerates dangerous ideological influences on British Jews but actively cooperates with those influences.
Further, those radicalised by Hotovely’s incitement against Palestinians are largely insulated from criticism. Anyone trying to object to her brazen racism – or its impact on attitudes among British Jews – faces being smeared as an antisemite.
In late 2021 pro-Palestinian solidarity activists protested her racist statements outside the London School of Economics as Hotovely gave a lecture there. As she emerged to a waiting car, demonstrators shouted: “Shame on you!” and “Free Palestine!”
The then ruling Conservative government and the opposition Labour party rushed to her defence, denouncing the protest as antisemitic – and, in a moment of peak cognitive dissonance, as an attack on free speech.
Lisa Nandy, then shadow foreign secretary and now the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, called Hotovely’s treatment “appalling”. While Nick Thomas-Symonds, then shadow home secretary and now head of the cabinet office, even more egregiously smeared the protesters. “Antisemitism has no place in our society,” he said.
Time to go
The British establishment has further rallied to her defence since she became Israel’s spokesperson in the UK for the genocide in Gaza.
In March 2024 the Metropolitan police imposed a wide exclusion zone around the area in London in which she lives to stop a group of anti-zionist Jews holding protests outside her home.
The voices calling for her expulsion have grown. In January, the former Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell called for Israel’s complete isolation, and Hotovely’s removal.
He said: “We have an Israeli ambassador who’s an advocate of Greater Israel, refuses to recognize the Palestinian state, defies all the UN resolutions that have been passed about how we can secure that peace, and she still remains in this country. Why aren’t we expelling the Israeli ambassador?”
Zarah Sultana, an MP sitting as an independent after she was expelled from the Labour party by Starmer for opposing his austerity cuts, has also called for Hotovely’s expulsion, pointing to her “genocidal rhetoric”.
After the petition against Hotovely reached 100,000 signatures, it qualified for a debate in parliament. No such debate has happened. Nor is it likely to.
The truth is, whatever rhetoric the Starmer government deploys to soothe public anger, the British establishment considers its alliance with Israel – and Israel’s patron in Washington – as far more important than the lives of 2 million Palestinians in Gaza.
“Why Is the UK Sheltering Israel’s Genocide-inciting Ambassador?”
Eh? That’s like asking why a pedo has its penis up a five year old boy’s backside.
“Why Is the UK Sheltering Israel’s Genocide-inciting Ambassador?”
Because Izzy & Ukky are co-owners of ‘Kosher Krime Inc” … and “criminals of a feather” stick together.
Hope that helps explain things. Any further questions… or may I run along for my toasted-bagel breakfast now? 🤔
Playing the ‘R2P’ card has been played and because of Gaza can never be played again.
Taking someone out whom the West labels a cruel dictator has just got a whole lot harder. But not impossible as Whitey might already be so far gone already to not even care…
Let’s see how UK Whitey and US Whitey react when all are dead in Gaza?
this is brilliant best article i have read on the topic of the genocide
Indeed..
Crook’s Mi6, look into his background if you can be arsed, like so many of the anti’s farmed out by the no too alternative media your Galloways et al..he’s merely a rhetorician..
There’s a lot these people could do to undermine the jewe regime in the stolen state..but instead we have this…
‘As public anger grows at images from Gaza of emaciated children, echoing historic images of Jewish children being starved in Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz, the British prime minister needs to be seen doing something.’..
you see, he’s reinforcing regime tropes, tropes created by jewes..because of course Crook knows that the hollowcaust footage was mainly starved adults…not children at all…because that would be Dresden and Hamburg etc.. but then again Crook is himself a spooky jewe..and rather than unwind histories lies..and repair the present,
..he’d rather bawl nonsense into the void…demand answers to the bleeding obvious…and play the shell game..
NEWS FROM THE TRENCHES
Youth Demand promises a ‘revolution’
Story by Elliott Goat, The Week UK •
“The government is engaging in absolute evil. They are enabling genocide in Palestine by sending money and arms to Israel. They are contributing to the murder of billions
That is the founding claim of Youth Demand, the UK’s latest activist movement “taking up the mantle of public disruption” from Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, Stop the Genocide and, most recently, Just Stop Oil, said The Times.
Who are they and what do they want?
The group emerged last year out of the youth wing of Just Stop Oil, which recently announced it would end its programme of civil disobedience having achieved its goals after the government pledged to stop issuing new licences for oil and gas exploration and production.
Made up predominantly of masses of students and young people in their 20s, Youth Demand has two main aims: to end all trade with Israel and “make the rich pay”. It says the latter must be achieved by raising £1 trillion by 2030 from the “fossil fuel elite to pay damages to countries harmed by fossil fuel burning”.
Until these demands are met,” the group said, “we will be in nonviolent resistance against this rigged political system of both controlled political parties and the people with blood on their hands.”
They are busy in ireland today demonstrating about the mass dumping of migrants
What tactics do they use?
The group first hit the headlines last spring after spray-painting the Labour Party’s HQ and Ministry of Defence buildings. In protest over Gaza, it has laid child-sized body bags outside the home of Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and hung a banner covered with red hand prints reading “Starmer stop the killing” outside the home of the PM.
They are the fastest growing party, and appeal strongly to the young
chesterton–
yep the morons still can’t figure out the ‘alt news media’ scene was created or coopted by cia-mi5-kgb moles (ritter, cook, whitney, johnson, macgregor etc) pretending to be ‘independent journalists’ ..
Notice these jews and wogs have one thing in common: they want us whites to care more about them, than our own race or nation.
CROOK is a jew??….just like that Scottish jewish geek heading up MI5.
These mofo jews need to be exposed!!!….
One of the main reasons these mofo jews succeed is because no one calls them out!…
I have had many posts deleted from here…..WHO is doing it.
These days I get jewish activists hanging around….virtually every week………..
Why does Nuttyahoo always have that cat that got the cream look on his face ?
A journalist who’s had a peek at the secret Israeli files obtained by Iran says they include organ and sex trafficking and other illegal activities across the world. Wouldn’t it be something if they got hold of some of Epstein’s files and release some of them? No blackmail, no threats, just release.
https://thecradle.co/articles/irans-intel-breach-involves-israeli-nuke-plans-surveillance-organ-trafficking-report
Tzipi Hot(&l)ovely
“The name game can be both challenging and exhilarating. Ancestors may have changed their names for many reasons—immigration, marriage, adoption, witness protection, or simply a desire to reinvent themselves. One effective strategy is to consider phonetic spellings. Names were often written down as they sounded, especially by officials unfamiliar with foreign names. Variations in spelling can lead to multiple aliases for the same individual. Try searching for phonetically similar names and you might uncover a hidden branch of your family tree.”
“During periods of heightened anti-Semitism, many Jewish families changed their surnames to reduce visibility and protect themselves from discrimination. This phenomenon was particularly prevalent in countries like the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Jewish immigrants faced barriers to employment, housing, and social acceptance.”
So who in JUK or JUSA needs protection now?
“It is long past time Tzipi Hotovely was expelled from London.” … Yup, expelled alright…in buckets that are then flown over Hell Aviv and the toxic sludge dumped on the demons.
What an utterly repulsive, putrid, wicked, overstuffed sack of pig shit it is. Deserving of being chased through the streets, beaten to a pulp, then hanged from a lightpost in front of the embassy.
Stsrmer is a crypto jew and so is blabbermouth Farage…..they’ve got Britain “covered”….
Nearly 8,000 killed in Syria within six months, 75 percent ——CIVILIANS——!!!
Executions of Alawite civilians have continued to take place since the government-led massacres on the Syrian coast earlier this year
At least 7,670 people, mainly civilians, have been killed in Syria since the fall of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s government and the establishment of a new transitional authority, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on 8 June.
According to the war monitor, the number includes more than 2,130 “extrajudicial executions” and “identity-based killings.”
It warned of a “pattern of organized violence” across the country.
The SOHR report documents “the killing of 7,670 people across Syria from 8 December 2024 to 6 June 2025,” adding that among those killed are “5,784 civilians, including 306 children and 422 women.”
READ MORE :
https://thecradle.co/articles/nearly-8000-killed-in-syria-within-six-months-75-percent-civilians-report
Argentinians ! now is the right time to get
your Malwinas bag . but you sleep .
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The problem is that Sir Starmer and Sir Lammy are nothing more than puppets of the International Money Changing Khazarian Mafia (KM). With maybe the exception of Disraeli, the UK has not had a decent populist leader in a long while. One simply needs to follow the money.
Israel was not formulated by any Biblical dictate, but to protect an oil spigot for a thousand mile long British (KM) protected pipeline from Iraq to Haifa built in 1933. The current reason for destruction of Gaza is the vast extreme wealth of a huge pocket of oil and natural gas off the coast of Gaza.
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=275313 Nov. 5, 2023 – Massive Oil and Gas Reserves Discovered Under Gaza – Israel Grants Development Licenses
The murder and displacement of the Palestinians is to remove their right of ownership so the KM can take full possession of it. This is the reason for the false PLO and Hamas narratives, both of KM Israeli creation.
To support their lies that the victim is the aggressor, Eustice Mullins provides insight in his book, Boycott The Jewish Weapon (1977), pp. 6,7:
Arafat passed away in 2004, so Israel needed a new alibi to make the aggressor the victim to continue to receive worldwide support, so they created Hamas in 2007.
To vilify the victim as the aggressor, there is a good likelihood that according to Israel’s Hannibal protocol, some “Hamas snipers” are disguised IDF or paid mercenaries to selectively pick off IDF members, to perpetuate this lie.
This is because the Bolshevik mind has no moral compass. For example:
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=277491 Dec 7 – Israel Destroys Palestinian Archives by tts-admin | Dec 8, 2023:
The KM have no problem with displacing the previous predominant white populations in England, Scotland and Ireland. Similar to the fires of Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii and Pacific Palisades, California, it is to take further ownership of their businesses and properties without even fair compensation. You’ll be happy and own nothing. The KM does not like competition no matter how fair it is. It is not about fairness, it is all about profiting with great wealth at other’s expense.