Parliamentarians are to demand urgent answers from the British government this week following The National’s revelation that a senior Israeli employee of the UK’s embassy in Tel Aviv owns property in a settlement considered illegal under international law in the occupied West Bank.
The discovery raised cross-party concern but the UK government has offered no explanation as to how the employee, who has worked at the British embassy in Israel for 16 years, was allowed to buy property on the illegal outpost of Kerem Reim and promote it publicly on social media.
London’s silence on the matter has called into question the seriousness of Britain’s commitment to backing Palestinian territorial rights, with one MP saying the scandal “speaks to the lack of moral compass at the core of Westminster's Palestinian policy”.
Chris Law, MP for Dundee Central, added: “If the UK government are to be taken seriously on their pledges
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