Sir Alan also suggested that the supporters of settlements should be disqualified from sitting in Parliament and remaining a member of a political party.
At the time, a spokesman for the Board of Deputies branded his views on Israel and settlements as “breathtakingly one-sided.”
In an interview with the BBC's World at One programme, he also claimed the USA was "in hock to a very powerful financial lobby which dominates its politics."
In 2017, Israeli embassy staffer Shai Masot was secretly filmed saying he would like to “take down” Sir Alan, which forced the ambassador to apologise to the then-Foreign Office minister.
The MP for Rutland and Melton since 1992, he joins a growing list of Conservatives who will not contest December’s election, including David Liddington, Jo Johnson and Michael Fallon.
