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October 18, 2017
In an email to Matthew Rycroft, the UK’s UN ambassador, Mr Arkush described the tweet as “unworthy, hostile, unbalanced, negative and evidently intended as criticism of the State of Israel”.
He said he intended to lodge a formal complaint with Prime Minister Theresa May and Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, and called for the message to be deleted and an explanation provided as to how it had come to be posted, and by whom.
The view expressed, Mr Arkush said, was “completely inconsistent with the United Kingdom’s declared policy to mark, commemorate and celebrate the Balfour Declaration (all terms used by the Prime Minister and other ministers in recent weeks)".
The post would be greeted by the Jewish community with “strong dismay and virtually unanimous condemnation,” he added.
