In her first conference speech as Foreign Secretary, the new PM said Israel was part of a “network of liberty” to resist dictatorships and “malign actors”. She has also said that the UK has “no closer friend and ally” than Israel and called for an “advanced free trade agreement that supports jobs and drives growth” between the two countries.
On UN anti-Israel bias she has said: “UN representatives with a history of antisemitic remarks should have no role in reviewing the activities of Israel.”
She says “We have to stop Iran getting nuclear weapons. That is very, very clear.”
She has pledged to crack down on anti-Israel boycotts, saying “Public bodies should not be engaging in such discriminatory policies which go against the stance of this government and sow needless division”.
There’s an excellent analysis of the new PM’s foreign policy views, particularly regarding the Middle East, in this article for BICOM’s Fathom Journal by Toby Greene: https://fathomjournal.org/liz-trusss-world-view-and-its-implications-for-uk-israel-relations/
And here is an article quoting Israeli PM Yair Lapid saying Truss is a “true friend of Israel”: https://m.jpost.com/international/article-716357/am
Reminder – join our campaign to protest against the sacking of UN official who condemned terror attacks on Israel
Sarah Muscroft served as the head of the United Nations' Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
She was forced to apologise for a tweet she issued on 8 August 2022 that – rightly - condemned the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror organisation for its "indiscriminate rocket fire" into Israel.
Following pushback from pro-Palestinian activists who accused her of being overly deferential to Israel, Muscroft called her original missive "ill informed" and then deleted her Twitter account altogether.
A UN official confirmed that Muscroft was removed from her post as a result of the tweets and will be reassigned elsewhere in the agency.
Nothing Ms Muscroft said was inaccurate.
PIJ is a terror organisation and it was responsible for indiscriminate rocket fire into Israel.
The United Nations Secretary General appears on television and pontificates about paths to peace, yet he presides over organisation that punishes its own staff for speaking the truth about terrorist attacks on Israel.
As the UK is a significant contributor to the United Nations and sits on the UN security council, we want activists to email the Foreign Secretary (copying in the UN) and ask what action she will take to press the UN to rectify this egregious decision.
Please send an email using the IBA website here: https://www.israelbritain.org.uk/reinstate-sarah-muscroft-wb/
Best wishes,
Luke Akehurst,
Director, We Believe in Israel
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