Historian and TV presenter is among those to speak out as protest grows over settler violence against Palestinians
, the “vast majority” of his congregation in Maidenhead, Berkshire, was “deeply worried” about what’s happening in Israel. “The extremist faction in the government is anti-gay, anti-women, anti-civil liberties, anti-pluralism, hostile to Palestinians,” Romain said.
Next weekend’s protest, under the banner “Defend Israel’s democracy”, is open to all expat Israelis “and all supporters of Israel and democracy”, the organisers said. “Since this government was formed, it has given many reasons for people in the diaspora to find themselves alienated from it. Hannah Weisfeld, the director of Yachad, a UK organisation that advocates for a political resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said: “There is real disquiet in the community over Smotrich and Ben-Gvir. The settler attack on Hawara was quite a gamechanger.”People, she said, were starting to understand there was “a connection between the undoing of democracy and settlers running wild in the West Bank.
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