Herzog urges UK to stop ‘threatening’ Israeli politicians

3 July 2016, 2:49 pm

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Opposition leader Isaac Herzog writes a letter to British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, hours after his party member Livni is summoned for questioning by Scotland Yard.

“I am writing to demand, as a matter of urgency, a change in the law that allows for the questioning and threatening of Israeli leaders standing at the forefront of the fight against terror, an issue I raised during our meeting in London last week,” Herzog writes.

Referring to recent terror attacks in Israel, he writes that “attempting to question MK Tzipi Livni makes a mockery of the British government’s calls for unity in fighting radical Islamist terror, and legitimizes those that seek to murder children and terrorize society.”