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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Earlier this month, Israeli parliamentarian Bezalel Smotrich touched down in the UK. His visit, reportedly to meet with “UK Jewish communities”, quickly drew near-universal condemnation from across the spectrum of the British Jewish community, and many others, for his extremist views. We should all be concerned about, and indeed outraged by, someone who has declared himself “a proud homophobe”, supported the segregation of Jewish and Palestinian women on maternity wards, and abused fellow Knesset members – Palestinian citizens of Israel – saying it was a “mistake that Ben-Gurion didn’t finish …