By Heidi Bachram

Tommy Robinson has gone to Israel.

He was invited by the country’s diaspora minister Amichai Chikli. Mainstream Jewish organisations in the UK, like the Board of Deputies and Jewish Leadership Council, issued a statement strongly condemning it, saying the majority of the Jewish community “utterly and consistently reject Robinson and everything he stands for”.

The invitation was announced the day after the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester was attacked by a terrorist with an extreme Islamist ideology. In a post on X, Chikli directly linked the horrific attack with Robinson’s invitation. It set off an explosion of outrage in the British Jewish community. Jewish journalists were the first to respond as the news broke. Daily Mail journalist Sabrina Miller called it a “hideous decision” and Nicole Lampert wrote that “British Jews don’t want this”.

Robinson then recorded a ranting video aimed at Sabrina Miller, accusing her of hanging around with antisemites and jihadists. The Daily Mail is hardly a den of ‘jihadists’. The accusation would be laughable if it weren’t so sinister.

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