Shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy has been attacked on social media by leftwing activists after describing the treatment of Tzipi Hotolevy as ‘unacceptable’.
Following the incident at LSE last night, where Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotolevy had to be escorted to her car by security, Ms. Nandy posted a message of support ambassador Hotolevy, saying: “The appalling treatment of Israeli Ambassador @TzipiHotovely is completely unacceptable. There is no excuse for this kind of behaviour.
“Freedom of speech is a fundamental right and any attempt to silence or intimidate those we disagree with should never be tolerated.”
Soon after posting, Nandy started to receive abusive replies to her tweet from leftwing journalists and activists as well as anonymous accounts.
Tzipi Hotovely is a full fascist, who both denies & celebrates the nakba, promotes the annexation of West Bank, backs banning intermarriage & represents the world’s most racist country. They were literally protested outside the event. What an embarrassing person & a useless party https://t.co/XEO2jOXFFt
— ashok kumar (@broseph_stalin) November 10, 2021
Ashok Kumar, a professor of political economy at Birkbeck, tweeted that Nandy was an ‘embarrassing person’ and member of a ‘useless party’
Other self-proclaimed leftists posting using anonymous accounts on twitter replied with statements like ‘F**k Keir Starmer’s Labour Party’ and called the shadow Foreign Secretary ‘Nakba Nandy.’
Hotovely is a fascist. You are a fascist apologist. Labour has an institutional lack of regard for Palestinian human rights https://t.co/hxMUs6oFiI
— Ruqaiya (@ruqaiya_h) November 10, 2021
Nakba Nandy Ladies and Gentlemen! https://t.co/TPeljy9z1e
— Indigenous Spirit (@Indigenous_Soul) November 10, 2021
Nick Thomas-Symonds, shadow Home Secretary also posted in support of the ambassador, causing Novara Media’s Aaron Bastani to label him ‘utterly disgusting’ and claim he didn’t ‘give a rats arse about minorities.’
Hotovely has castigated mixed race marriages. Yet protest against her, according to this Labour front bencher, is apparently antisemitic.
— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 10, 2021
Utterly disgusting, these people don’t give a rats arse about minorities unless it figures in some political calculus that benefits them. https://t.co/PmuooiuyuN
