Diaspora minister meets far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer in Jerusalem

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli meets with far-right American activist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer in Jerusalem.

“It was a pleasure meeting Laura Loomer, a courageous woman, who clearly understands the threats facing the West from radical Islam and its growing influence in the US,” Chikli tweets.

Loomer, who is Jewish, is a close ally of US President Donald Trump and played a key role in the purge of National Security Council staffers earlier this year. She has also called herself a “proud Islamophobe,” promoted the idea that the 9/11 terror attacks were an “inside job,” and that several school shootings in the US were “false flags.”

In her own post about the meeting, Loomer says she and Chikli “discussed the growing threat of Jew-hatred around the world and the challenges our respective countries face in the near future as the Digital Pogrom advances.”

Chikli sparked outcry from the two largest mainstream organizations for British Jewry when he invited far-right, anti-Islam British activist Tommy Robinson to Israel last month. He also garnered backlash earlier this year for inviting far-right European politicians whose parties had ties to Holocaust denial to an antisemitism conference in Jerusalem.

Today was an incredible day in Israel!

I landed in Israel after an 11 hour flight and I can tell you, the spirit of the Israeli people will never be broken, no matter how much hate they receive from the world.

It is truly inspiring to see how positive the Israeli people are… pic.twitter.com/qP0HuuoCCo

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) November 3, 2025