April 5 (Reuters) - Israel has detained two British members of parliament and refused entry to the officials who were visiting as part of a parliamentary delegation, British Foreign Minister David Lammy said in a statement late on Saturday.
Sky News, citing a statement from the Israeli immigration ministry, says that the detained parliamentarians are Labour MPs Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed, who were rejected because they were suspected of plans to “document the activities of security forces and spread anti-Israel hatred.”
“I have made clear to my counterparts in the Israeli government that this is no way to treat British Parliamentarians, and we have been in contact with both MPs tonight to offer our support,” Lammy said.
“They plan on recording the heinous shit we’re doing here and we can’t have that.”
Israel just determined to be the most despicable asshats in human history and no one is stopping them
This is really bad. Like really bad. I would not be surprised to hear Starmer send in the SAS to extract kinda bad. Refusing entry is one thing. Detaining is heinous on a diplomatic visa. I only hope they are on a plane this morning
Starmer is more likely to say that Israel has a right to defend itself against the questioning of these MPs tha send the SAS. He ain’t going to do shit.
This is the beautiful thing about the Westminster system. Starmer is also an MP and so is accountable to Parliament. If he brushed it off like that there would be real trouble.
