Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has lambasted the UK government, saying its “Jews hate knows no boundaries” after comments on Gaza made by Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband.
In a video posted online on Friday, Miliband – who is Jewish – said he had just attended a meeting with people who had been in Gaza.
“It was horrific what is unfolding,” he said. “You know, the stories that people were telling me of medicines being blocked, children dying while waiting for vital life-saving treatment.”
He went on: “we as a UK government, as the prime minister has said, have got to act and act more decisively than we have”.
But reacting on X, Huckabee delivered a fierce rebuke, posting: “The Brits have lost it. The Jew hate of their government knows no boundaries and knows no facts.”
The Brits have lost it. The Jew hate of their government knows no boundaries and knows no facts. https://t.co/W6iZ1ZrHrR
— Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) September 5, 2026
Israel’s foreign ministry responded more diplomatically: “If the foreign secretary were interested in facts rather than stories, he would know that there are no restrictions whatsoever on the entry of medicines into the Gaza Strip, and that no medicines are being blocked,” it stated on X.
The Foreign Office has been approached for comment.
Meanwhile, Huckabee, an evangelical Christian who refers to the West Bank as “Judea and Samaria”, has been challenged over his condemnation of settler violence.
Urging the Israeli government to take action against those perpetrating it, he recently described such behaviour as “terror”.
One of his ambassadorial predecessors, David Friedman took issue with his comments, writing a public message to his “dear friend”: “Jews don’t wake up in the morning saying ‘I’m going to go kill a Palestinian today.’”
However, he continued: “Hundreds and hundreds” of Jews in the West Bank have been “murdered by Palestinian terrorists”.
He added: “Labelling the Jews who fight back as ‘terrorists’ is a win for the anti-Israel PR machine who then create a moral equivalency between both sides.”
To my dear friend Mike Huckabee,
— David M Friedman (@DavidM_Friedman) September 6, 2026
No one doubts where your heart is. Your support for Israel is unwavering and historic.
There is violence in Judea and Samaria — there has been for many years. But Jews don’t wake up in the morning saying “I’m going to go kill a Palestinian…
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