Train booking website defends Israel ‘puppeteers’ tweet

A small railway ticketing firm has defended a tweet calling Israel “puppeteers” over its approval of plans to build 780 new homes in the West Bank.

The train booking website, called TicketySplit.co.uk, sells low-cost tickets and has over 1,000 Twitter followers. It appears to have no employees, according to a financial statement filed in 2019.

Ticketysplit said in a tweet on Monday it was unlikely “the Puppeteers will take any notice from the Puppets” in response to a foreign office statement calling on Israel to cease construction. 

One online user replied that calling Israel “puppeteers of the UK” was an antisemitic trope.