{"id":189004,"date":"2019-05-29T05:52:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T05:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=189004"},"modified":"2019-05-31T07:07:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T07:07:09","slug":"top-contenders-to-replace-british-pm-may-viewed-as-pro-israeli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=189004","title":{"rendered":"Top contenders to replace British PM May viewed as pro-Israeli"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tovah Lazaroff — The Jerusalem Post May 26, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Boris-prays-at-wall Like Presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump such displays are now EXPECTED of Western leaders. Boris Johnson’s stepmother Jenny, the second wife of his father Stanley, is the stepdaughter of Edward Sieff, the former chairman of Marks & Spencer. In other words Johnson is part of a closely connected Jewish-British elite. Click to see other examples of world leaders pledging loyalty to Israel.<\/p><\/div>\n

The top contenders to replace outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May, who announced her resignation on Friday, are viewed as pro-Israel friends of the Jews and are likely to continue the strong ties between the Jewish state and Great Britain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leading them are Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and former foreign secretary Boris Johnson.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the German parliament approved a motion earlier this month equating the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement with antisemitism, Hunt tweeted his support for the gesture.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTremors, turbulence & terror in Mid East remind us of urgent need for peace: two-state solution. But the foundations for peace are respect & coexistence. Boycotting Israel \u2013 the world\u2019s only Jewish state \u2013 is antisemitic. I salute Germany for taking stand,\u201d Hunt wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnson, a Conservative lawmaker, is the favorite to replace May. In 2015, when he was mayor of London, he visited Israel and prayed at the Western Wall.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time, The Jerusalem Post reported that he told Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz that he had Jewish ancestry.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I have Jews in my family from Moscow, some of them rabbis,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThat\u2019s on my mother\u2019s side.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnson, who is a member of the Anglican faith, wrote in the Western Wall guest book, \u201cIt is a great privilege to come to this Wall for the first time in my life, and I join the prayers for peace in Jerusalem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking at a conference in Switzerland, Johnson spoke in support of May, who he said had been \u201cpatient and stoical\u201d in facing all the difficulties around the country\u2019s departure from the EU bloc.<\/span><\/p>\n

She tried and failed three times to get a deeply divided Parliament to ratify her divorce deal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe job of our next leader in the UK, he or she, is to get out of the EU properly and put Brexit to bed,\u201d Johnson said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd to make sure we have an exciting, dynamic, but also socially compassionate conservatism that can see off Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party,\u201d he said, referring to the main opposition party.<\/span><\/p>\n

He declined to give further details of his own leadership campaign, in which he will face rivals including Hunt and probably former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab, ex-leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom, and several others.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t wish to elaborate on what I\u2019m going to do and how we are going to do it, but believe me, you will hear possibly more about that than you necessarily want to in the next few days,\u201d Johnson said.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Steve Linde and Reuters contributed to this report.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Boris Johnson is a favourite and Zionists will be rooting for him. Visiting Jerusalem he told Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz \u2018I have Jews in my family\u2026 some of them rabbis\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189008,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189004\/revisions\/189008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}