 This year alone, Israeli police have stormed the holiest site in Palestine, Israeli courts have expelled Palestinians from their homes, and the Israeli army have killed 260 Palestinians, including 60 children, in airstrikes. It should then be no surprise that when the country's ambassador speaks in public, protests take place. This is what happened on Tuesday night when Zippy Hotovelli spoke to students at the London School of Economics. That to me looked like a pretty standard protest. I spoke to a bunch of people who were on it and by all accounts, it was, but that's not how the media reported it. The Jewish Chronicle quickly published a leader titled, On the anniversary of Kristallnacht, a Jew hunting mob on the streets of London. Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass was a pogrom against Jews carried out by Nazi paramilitaries. It happened over two nights in 1938, 267 synagogues were destroyed, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were damaged, and 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps. It was one of the most despicable events of the 21st century, and it has absolutely nothing to do with some LSE students protesting apartheid. Other journalists got in on the act though, Theo Usherwood from LBC tweeted the following, not quite sure what is more worrying. The fact that this happened at a London university or the fact that 11 hours on that same university, the LSE still has nothing to say about it. LSE did go on to make a statement. It condemned any threats made to the Israeli ambassador on social media, but it didn't condemn the protests themselves. Labour politicians had less of a spine. Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandi tweeted the following, the appalling treatment of Israeli ambassador Sipi Hotovelli is completely unacceptable. There is no excuse for this kind of behaviour. She goes on, freedom of speech is a fundamental right and any attempt to silence or intimidate those we disagree with should never be tolerated. Now Hotovelli took part in a 90 minute debate at LSE. It was uninterrupted. When she left the building, she had to witness a protest against the crimes committed by the state she represents. The only threat to free speech here is the demonisation of the peaceful protesters. She took part in a 90 minute debate. Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Simons had an even worse statement. So he tweeted the following. During scenes last night involving Israel's ambassador, anti-Semitism has no place in our society. I wish Sipi Hotovelli well and support the police in any investigation. Now why do I say this tweet is worse? Because without any evidence it explicitly accuses the protesters of anti-Semitism. Secondly, it explicitly wishes Sipi Hotovelli well. Now let's look in more detail at who this person is, who the Israeli ambassador is to see why both parts of that tweet are ridiculous. So we still have the tweet up there by the way, I don't know if we want to take that down. So before taking her job as Israeli ambassador to Britain, Sipi Hotovelli served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and then Minister for Settlements, Minister for Settlements, just keep that in mind. Both were in governments of Benjamin Netanyahu. That means Hotovelli is on the right even in Israel, which might be why Netanyahu was confident putting her forward to defend Israel's bombing campaign this May. This is Hotovelli speaking to Sky on day 10 of Israel's bombing campaign. By this point Israeli forces had killed 260 Palestinians, including 66 children. Israel didn't want this conflict to begin with. It was a pure provocation of a radical jihadi terror organization, Hamas, that wanted to shoot our kids, our women, our men. Millions of Israelis spent the last 10 days in bomb shelters because the whole country was under attack of over 3,000 rockets. The reason Israel wants to make sure that those kind of attacks won't be coming back again and again. So we want to restore quiet. We definitely don't want to be in a war, but we would like not to have a quick fix. We would like to have something that is sustainable so our people can get back to normal life. First of all, the idea Israel didn't want this conflict or that its leaders deserve sympathy is ridiculous. 260 Palestinians were killed as more than 20 times the number of Israelis who were killed in that period. Just as importantly, the conflict started because of Israel's unprovoked actions storming holy sites and evicting Palestinians from their homes. In that clip, Hotter Valley also spoke of bringing quiet to Israel and a sustainable solution to the conflict. These might sound like reasonable statements to the uninitiated. So it's important to note some background to get what she means. He here is that Hotter Valley is a supporter of a greater Israel. That means all of the Palestinian territories should be a next. This land is ours. All of it is ours. She justifies annexation by another extreme claim that Palestine and thus the Israeli occupation have never existed in 2019, Hotter Valley told a U.S. audience. Using the term annex is not true. You annex something that is not yours. This is not a story of annexation. This is a story of realization. Many ask what's next, what's going to happen? What's going to change after the annexation of Area C? For 52 years, we were feeding this myth of occupation. It's a myth. It's not true. So the occupation, which has been recognized by the UN for 52 years, Palestinians recognize it as going on from 1948, she says it's never existed because the Palestinian people have never existed. Palestine doesn't exist, really, really extreme. It's also worth noting, given the condemnation of the LSE protests, that Hotter Valley is by no means herself an advocate of a vibrant public sphere. In 2017, Netanyahu canceled a meeting with the German foreign minister because he had previously met two Israeli human rights organizations. Defending that decision, Hotter Valley described one of those groups, they're called Breaking the Silence. It's ex-IDF veterans as an enemy of Israel, called them an enemy of Israel and even implied they were war criminals. If you are still not convinced that Hotter Valley is worth protesting, I have one more bit of information about her politics. This one is really shocking. It's from an article written by the journalist Jenny Fraser in Jewish News, came out just before Hotter Valley had become ambassador and it argues that she is too extreme to take on that role. Her examples of her extremism include the following. What are we to make of her 2011 invitation to the La Hava organization to speak to the Knesset's committee on the state of women and gender equality of which she was a member? La Hava's mission is prevention of assimilation in the Holy Land and its bigoted members have frequently demonstrated against personal or business relationships between Jews and Arabs. Hotter Valley's reasoning was that it was important to check systems to prevent mixed marriages. Fraser writes it should scarcely be necessary to point out that even the most traditionally observant of politicians has no role in preventing mixed marriages. Would anyone have as casually invited members of the Ku Klux Klan to address a Knesset committee? So you can see this person's politics. This person's politics is they don't want marriages between people of different ethnicities. This is like 1960s Ku Klux Klan stuff, right? She doesn't think Palestine has ever existed. She wants Israel to occupy the whole of the lands of Israel and Palestine, incredibly extreme. And yet when there is a peaceful protest against her speaking at a university, you have the shadow home secretary of the Labour Party tweeting without any evidence whatsoever that the protesters who by all accounts oppose apartheid, by all accounts oppose bombing campaigns on one of the most densely populated areas in the world, which killed 60 children, very reasonable. So I'd say good reasons to protest. He's called them all anti-Semitic and then he said solidarity to the person who doesn't want people of different ethnicities to get married. He wishes her well. This is the person who in May this year was going out on television saying, oh no, it's absolutely fine that Israel is continuing to bomb, as I say, one of the most densely populated parts of the world. It's completely fine because I think she said in that clip, you know, my grandma had to go into a bomb shelter. Well, let's have some perspective. As I said before, in Israel, there were 12 people killed over that 10 days. In Palestine, there were 260, including, as I've said, 60 children. This is not someone who anyone anywhere near the Labour Party should be expressing their solidarity in a tweet with and especially not because they've experienced a protest. This was people holding up signs and saying, you're not welcome at LSE because you are part of the government of an apartheid regime. That's not my words. That's the words of the Human Rights Watch and Betsalem, which is Israel's most prestigious human rights organization. And yet and yet we have Lisa Nandi saying, this is terrible. What has happened? This peaceful protest. This is terrible. What has happened? I find the whole thing cowardly. I find it despicable and it frankly means no one should have any trust whatsoever in the people at the top of the Labour Party that they will do anything to the left of Tony Blair. You know, these are people who are coming out with actively imperialist statements backing people who are against. It's unbelievable. I'm even saying it. She's someone who opposes marriages of Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Muslims. This is not the kind of person who the Labour leadership should be standing up for and just piling in there and smearing these protesters as anti-Semites is despicable.