The head of the German Jewish community said the rise of the right-wing populist and anti-migrant AfD party was "frightening", ahead of a key state election Sunday.
The Alternative for Germany party is polling above 20 percent in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where Chancellor Angela Merkel has her electoral seat.
Support for the AfD in the state is at a similar level to Merkel'sconservative CDU and just behind the centre-left Social Democrats.
"The voters aren't realising they are voting for a party that doesn't want to distance itself from the far-right spectrum," president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Josef Schuster told AFP Friday.
The AfD, which gained support when Germany took in a huge influx of refugees, "offers just slogans, no solutions", said Schuster.
Israel has responded with anger to a reported meeting between the French foreign minister and members of the Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah, suggesting the move was comparable to meeting with representatives of the Islamic State group.
Jean-Marc Ayrault met with a political delegation of Hezbollah in Lebanon on Tuesday, according to local media reports.
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The Lebanese news site al-Joumhouria quoted “well-informed” sources who said the delegation that met with Ayrault included lawmaker Ali Fayyad, from Hezbollah’s political party Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc, as well as the head of Hezbollah’s international relations, Ammar al-Musawi.
Ayrault arrived in Lebanon Tuesday for a two-day trip in order to help the country move past the political paralysis that has prevented the election of a new Lebanese president since 2014.
Some 300 Hamas members and supporters – as well as 950 Hezbollah activists and members – are operating in Germany, the country’s domestic intelligence agency said in its annual federal report, the same numbers as were listed in its 2013 and 2014 reports.
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According to the Berlin State intelligence 2015 report, which was overseen by Henkel, there are 250 active Hezbollah members and 70 Hamas operatives in the capital. It is unclear why Berlin authorities have not detained the Hamas members.
International Quds Day – initiated by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Islamic Republic’s founder, in 1979 – is an annual event calling for the destruction the Jewish state.
“This demonstration [al-Quds Day] is directed at a state that represents the same values as Germany and the other countries of Europe,” said Yakov Hadas-Handelsman, Israel’s ambassador to Germany, at a counter-al- Quds Day demonstration on Saturday. “And therefore this demonstration today is not only directed at Israel. The demonstration is directed not only against Jews in the entire world. No, the demonstration is directed against the entire Western world and its values.”
The number of pro-Israel protesters ranged from 260 to 500. Hadas-Handelsman said it is a “disgrace” that for the last 20 years in Germany, agitating publicly against Jews and Israel is allowed.
It is easy to fight antisemitism when your opponent is antisemitic. It is much harder when it's somebody on your side of the aisle.
European leaders talk high and mighty against antisemitism. Do they really mean it?
The test to their words came up this past week, when Palestinian Leader Mahmoud Abbas stood before the European Parliament and blamed Jewish rabbis for inciting the Israeli government to poison wells.
The European response?
The MEPs stood up and applauded.
European Parliament president Martin Schulz tweeted that it was "an inspiring address".
This is all par for the course.
Mahmoud Abbas and various other Palestinian leaders regularly incite against Jews. This incitement results
in Jews getting murdered - in Israel and in Europe.
Europe regularly responds to such incitement by ignoring it and by publicly supporting those same Palestinian leaders.
A reader asked various EU leaders for their response.
European Parliament spokesperson:
The format of the address is constructed in a way, that the leaders give their speeches without any debate afterwards. As a matter of courtesy, some MEPs stand up to applaud at the end of the addresses, which was not an exception with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
This is how polite MEPs react to blood libel
This is how polite MEPs react to something they don't like.
See the difference?
Katharina von Schnurbein, Coordinator on combating Antisemitism:
Allegations of Jews poising water are age-old accusations. The European institutions strongly condemn all forms of Antisemitism and the spreading of such misconceptions to society at large.
We understand that Mr Abbas as retracted his expressions. However, given the external policy dimension of your questions, could I kindly ask you to refer further questions to the European External Action Service.
Summary: We reject antisemitism in principle, but we don't think it's the job of the Coordinator on combating Antisemitism to say anything against blood libels in the European Parliament.
European External Action Service:
In his statement before the European Parliament on 23 June, the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas mistakenly alleged that rabbis in Israel had asked their government to poison water supplies so as to kill Palestinians, citing it as an example of incitement to violence. We understand President Abbas has retracted his claim two days later, calling it baseless and saying it had not been his intention to harm Judaism or to offend Jewish people.
The EU is determined to fight antisemitism in all its forms wherever it comes from. Antisemitism is not just a threat to Jews, but to the very values that Europe stands for.
Summary: This is as close as you're going to get to us condemning blood libels in the European Parliament. We see no problem with applauding blood libels.
As far as European leaders are concerned: It is okay to incite against Jews, especially if you take the most blatantly antisemitic parts of it back after a few days, and it's okay to applaud such antisemitic incitement, because it's "a matter of courtesy" and it was an "inspiring address".
If it bothers you that Abbas stood before the European Parliament and incited against Jews, then you must be Jewish. Because nobody else really cares.
A group conducting an aggressive anti-Israel boycott campaign has its headquarters in Bremen city-owned property that has received federal funding, an investigation by The Jerusalem Post found.
“The Bremen Peace Forum has already publicly supported the BDS movement for some time. This [BDS] is nothing other than an anti-Israel, yes, anti-Semitic idea. It intolerable when such institutions are still publicly supported,” Gitta Connemann, a leading Bundestag deputy and a member of the German-Israel parliamentary group, told the Post on Thursday.
According to the Bremen Peace Forum’s website, “it is the time to boycott merchandise from Israel, some of which is produced in Israeli settlements, but also other goods that come directly from Israel.”
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In an email to the Post, André Städler, the spokesman for the Social Democratic Mayor Carsten Sieling, said, “The City of Bremen, as the owner of the Villa Ichon [where the Bremen Peace Forum has its headquarters], agreed to a leasehold contract with the management company of the Villa Ichon.”
Städler said that the agreement expires in 2031 and cannot be cut short. He declined to send the Post a copy of the agreement. The spokesman said the City of Bremen condemns calls to boycott Israel.
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In 2013, the Villa Ichon was embroiled in a scandal because it barred Jewish music teacher Noemi Köster and Israeli student Maor Shani from attending a lecture on anti-Semitism.
The event was organized by various peace activists and a local Left Party group.
The doorman at the event insulted Shani, who was wearing a kippa, and Köster, saying “Everything belongs to you already anyway, also the media,” the Bild newspaper reported.
Bremen is the center of anti-Israel activity in Germany.
Cyprus’s ruling conservatives took the lead in Sunday’s general election, results showed, while a far-right party won its first seats in the legislature amid voter disillusionment after a 2013 financial meltdown.
With the voting tally at 100 percent, and an unprecedentedly high abstention rate, the right-wing Democratic Rally party was ahead with 30.6 percent of the vote followed by Communist AKEL with 25.6 percent.
Compared to the previous elections of 2011, those two main parties on the Cypriot political scene suffered setbacks. AKEL’s Communists lost up to seven percentage points while Democratic Rally lost 3.7 percentage points.
By contrast ELAM, an extremist party forged on the coat-tails of Greece’s Golden Dawn, scraped past a newly-imposed 3.6 percent electoral threshold and won up to two seats, according to preliminary estimates.
“It’s sort of a kindergarten version of Golden Dawn,” said political analyst Hubert Faustmann, referring to the party formed in 2008. “All the big parties lost.”
Malia Bouattia has been elected as the new president of National Union of Students.
The election took place in Brighton at NUS national conference on Wednesday.
Ms Bouattia has faced criticism from Jewish students over her controversial remarks about Zionists.
Ms Bouattia won the election on the first round of voting with 372 votes, beating outgoing president Megan Dunn who had 328 votes. Candidate Adil Waraich won nine votes and Re-open Nominations (RON) won 22.
The Union of Jewish Students said: "Antisemitism has been something of a buzzword at NUS Conference 2016 and in the student movement this year. This looks set to continue, especially in light of the questions posed by 57 J-Soc Presidents to Malia Bouattia ahead of the presidential election. Jewish students have not yet received adequate answers from Malia on these concerns and UJS will continue to support their demands for answers over the next year.
"There is now a choice to be made. Jewish students need to decide whether NUS has gone too far for them to want to be involved, or whether now is the time to step up the fight from within. UJS will be consulting Jewish students in the near future and will continue to ensure that their interests are best represented."
I am deeply concerned at accusations of antisemitism. In an open letter last week in response to concerns raised about my candidacy by Jewish students, I sought to allay their fears, and answered all points put to me honestly.
I want to be clear, again, that for me to take issue with Zionist politics is in no way me taking issue with being Jewish. In fact, Zionist politics are held by people from a variety of different backgrounds and faiths. For me it has been, and will always be, a political argument, not one of faith or ethnic identity. Zionism, religion and ethnicity must not be seen as one and the same. If the language I have used in the past has been interpreted any other way then let me make this clear – it was never my intention, although my political ideologies and beliefs remain unchanged.
There is no place for antisemitism in the student movement, or in society. If any of my previous discourse has been interpreted otherwise, such as comments I once made about Zionism within the media, I will revise it to ensure there is no room for confusion. I was being critical of media outlets that unquestioningly support Israel’s actions and maltreatment of Palestinians, I was not talking about the media as a whole, or repeating despicable antisemitic prejudice. The first thing I did on being elected was to hold a meeting with the Union of Jewish Students, and these meetings are set to continue.
Here are some of the statements which were 'misinterpreted', according to Bouattia:
"Mainstream Zionist-led media outlets - because once again we're dealing with the population of the global south - resistance is presented as an act of terrorism, but instead of us remembering that this has always been the case thoughout struggles against white supremacy, it's become an accepted discourse amongst too many."
Bouattia thinks Jews are colonialists and white supremacists. She believes the dichotomy of Jews as the rich, powerful White vs. Palestinians as the poor, powerless Black. She believes Jews control the media. She supports violent resistance against Jews.
Bouattia's basic attitude is antisemitic.
But it's much easier to claim she's been 'misunderstood' than deal with the problem.
The hard-right has made stunning gains in a local election in central Germany - with a small neo-Nazi party winning 17 per cent of the vote in one district.
The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) won an average of 13.2 per cent of the vote across the state of Hesse on Sunday - making it the third largest party in the region behind Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democratic Party.
Meanwhile in the small town of Leun, 50 miles north of Frankfurt, the neo-Nazi NPD party managed to win 17 per cent of the vote - making it the third largest party.
In Büdingen, which is home to Hesse’s largest refugee centre, the NPD took up 14 per cent of the vote - up from two per cent in 2011.
The hard-right’s gains were particularly noticeable in Frankfurt - a global financial capital with a cosmopolitan population - where they won 10.3 per cent of the vote, coming in fourth place, Hessischer Rundfunk reports.
Previously the AfD have typically been most successful in the economically marginalised areas in the former East German states.
Ireland’s parliamentary elections, held two weeks ago, are yet to
result in the formation of a new government, but there is reason to
expect increased official hostility toward the Jewish state, as Herb Keinon writes:
[P]ro-Israel candidates were roundly
defeated across the board, while pro-Palestinian candidates enjoyed a
good day . . . at the polls. For instance, . . . Alan Shatter, the sole
Jewish MP who served from 2011 to 2014 as both justice and defense
minister, and who has been the victim of anti-Semitic swipes for his
willingness to speak up for Israel, was defeated. . . .
On the other hand, [the newly elected]
Gino Kenny . . . celebrated his election victory . . . by waving a
Palestinian flag. . . . Another candidate who won, John Halligan,
launched his candidacy in January in the presence of the Palestinian
Authority’s ambassador, Ahmad Abdelrazek. . . .
[In addition,] the Ireland-Palestine
Solidarity Campaign asked candidates to commit themselves to working to
end bilateral Israel-Irish arms trade, and to suspending the EU-Israel
Association Agreement. Of the 551 candidates, 263 gave some level of
endorsement to these pledges, and 142 gave their full commitment.
The ultra-nationalist Slovak National Party, Fico’s potential partner, returned to Parliament after a four-year-absence with 8.6 percent while the traditional party in the predominantly Roman Catholic country of 5.4 million, the Christian Democrats, didn’t get enough votes to be represented.
Most notably, the neo-Nazi People’s Party – Our Slovakia, got 8 percent, or 14 seats.
Party chairman Marian Kotleba was chairman of the banned neo-Nazi Slovak Togetherness-National Party, which organized anti-Roma rallies and expressed sympathy for the Slovak Nazi-puppet state during World War II.
Conservative Friends of Israel chairman Sir Eric Pickles has accused
the Foreign Office of “turning a blind eye” to Palestinian incitement as
violence flares in Israel.
The former cabinet minister said Palestinian society had been “harmed
by a widespread culture of hate” and “glorification of terror and
violence against Jews and Israel”.
Writing for the Conservative Home website, Sir Eric said David
Cameron had been unequivocal in his condemnation of incitement and
violence.
But he added: “Our Prime Minister’s clear message somehow seems to
have become lost in translation in the bowels of the Foreign Office,
which has an almost pathological desire to appear balanced whatever the
cost.
“The call for both sides to end incitement equates the acts of a
handful of extremists on the very fringes of Israeli society to the
state-sanctioned incitement of violence rife within Palestinian society.
By doing so, the Foreign Office is turning a blind eye to what is a
glaring problem for the Palestinians.”
Sir Eric said officials should condemn “each incident of incitement” and suggest Department for International Development aid should be withdrawn if the Palestinian Authority did not stop encouraging violence.
“Make no mistake; leading Palestinian officials have inflamed the
recent unrest. The British government can no longer afford to be
silent,” he concluded.
Last month Sir Eric told the JC his love of Israel went back more than 30 years. He was attracted to
its "free speech, independent judiciary, functioning democracy. It's a
fundamental part of being a Tory."
Founding Director Tomas Sandell
of the European Coalition for Israel was invited to the roundtable and
was the
only representative of a non-Jewish pro-Israel organisation. In his
remarks he gave credit to Timmermans for acknowledging that “there are
those
who use anti-Israelism as a cover for anti- Semitism”. He went on to
state that “Zionism has historically been the solution to
anti-Semitism and not the reason for it”.
Today
the mere existence of a Jewish state is again being questioned by
radical groups that call for boycotts of Israel. The
same groups also hold a negative view of the Jewish people as such. In a
separate written statement Sandell warned that “the European Commission
risks undermining its own goals of preventing anti-Semitism by time and
again singling out Israel and calling for the labelling of Israeli goods
produced in the disputed territories”. The new directive is expected to
be introduced any week now and is likely to give further fuel for
anti-Israeli forces who like to see a ban of all Israeli products. In
Reykjavik, Iceland, the city council recently had to backtrack from a
decision
to ban all Israeli goods after international outrage. ”The call for
labelling of Israeli goods will only strengthen those forces who believe
that Israel is the sole reason for the conflict in the Middle East and
who turn against Jews in Europe in retaliation”, he wrote. He also
reminded the European Commission of the fact that the rise of
anti-Semitism in the Third Reich started with the boycott of Jewish
businesses. [...]
At the colloquium Mette Bentow, one of the survivors of the terror attack in Copenhagen, shared her testimony
of the trauma that it had inflicted on her young family. She openly asked if she has a future in Europe.
In his address President Moshe Kantor
of the European Jewish Congress warned that the EU is not doing enough
to
prevent Jews from leaving Europe. Over the last years tens of thousands
of Jews have left Europe to seek a safer home elsewhere. And today one
third
of Europe's 2.5 million Jews are considering emigration. Whole areas of
Europe are being emptied of Jews and not enough is being done, he
warned.
In
his written statement Sandell noted that “it appears as if the European
Commission no longer acknowledges anti-Semitism
as a specific problem that threatens the very fabric of European Jewry
but simply refers to it as another form of racism and discrimination.
When
Europe faced its last peak of anti-Semitic violence in 2003 and an EU
survey named Israel as the worst threat to world peace, the then
European
Commission President Romano Prodi called together a
crisis summit to specifically tackle the rise of anti-Semitism. Eleven
years
later the new European Commission reacts to the same challenge by
calling together a seminar to speak about anti-Muslim hatred, he noted. Read more.
Official Palestinian Authority media outlets incite Palestinians, from a young age, to murder Jews. (Image source: Palestinian Media Watch)
Typically only 13 MEPs out of 751 signed the long overdue appeal - and not a single one from France, the UK, Portugal, Poland ... More about Palestinian violence that MEPs prefer to ignore here and here.
A cross-party group of Members of the European Parliament urged EU’s
foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and European Parliament
President Martin Schulz to make an "unambiguous" statement in
response to inflammatory language used by Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas in recent days and his silence and refusal to
condemn the murders and stabbings of Israeli citizens.
"We press upon you the need for an unambiguous and clear European
repudiation of the language used by Mr. Abbas to date, his silence in
the face of brutal and unwarranted murders of Israeli citizens,
including the murder of two parents in front of their children, and his
failure to properly respond and engage with (Israel’s) Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer of peace negotiations," wrote the 13 MEPs,
members of the Europe Israel Public Affairs advisory Committee or
friends of EIPA, in a letter sent Wednesday to the two EU leaders.
The MEPs are concerned that current events in Israel and the West
Bank are taking a turn for the worse, and want the EU “to follow UN
Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s lead, when he chastised Mr Abbas for his
“filthy Jewish feet” quote with regards to events at the Temple Mount
in Jerusalem.”
"We urge you to issue this clear and unambiguous statement as soon as
possible, so that the Palestinian leadership understands that
incitement to hatred, and silence in the face of Palestinian terror
attacks against Israel’s population have consequences and will not be
tolerated by the European Union, the letter continues."
The MEPs noted that in stark contrast, Israel immediately condemned
and brought the full weight of justice to bear on Israeli citizens who
attack and murder Palestinian citizens.
"You will also be aware of the Israeli Prime Minister’s desire to
begin peace process negotiations immediately and without
pre-conditions," the MEPs said, adding that this offer, which must be
grasped, is still on the table.
The leftist and anti-austerity Syriza party has won the elections in Greece, international media reported Sunday, taking some 35-38% of the final votes, according to exit polls.
The win signals a reversal for the Greek government, as the ruling New Democratic Party came in distant second with 26-28% of the vote, according to BBC.
In third is the Neo-Nazi 'Golden Dawn' party, with 6.4-8% of the Greek vote.
The Jewish community in Greece has already raised some alarm over the developments. Leaders say that the relationship between Israel and Greece could be at stake.
"No doubt we will see a big change in the state of diplomatic relations between Greece and Israel, as well as the situation in Greece," a Jewish community member stated to Arutz Sheva Sunday on condition of anonymity.
Civil war has broken out in the bizarre world of Dieudonné, the black, anti-Semitic comedian at the centre of the “Nazi” salute row surrounding the footballer Nicolas Anelka a year ago.
Several black supporters of Dieudonné M’bala M’bala, including former bodyguards, have turned against him, complaining of his increasingly close connections with white, allegedly racist, groups in France and what they claim is his supposed obsession with personal enrichment. (...)
The campaign is led by Jérémie Maradas-Nado, alias Jo Dalton, a former leader of the Black Dragons, a gang which defended black people from attacks by white skinheads in the 1990s. He was for several years the leader of Dieudonné’s bodyguards.
Of Dieudonné and Mr Soral, Mr Dalton now says: “At first I told myself that these guys were breaking new ground – that they were courageous. Then I saw more and more people with shaven heads and swastikas. By allying himself with fascists, Dieudonné has betrayed the black cause.”
(...)
Another former Dieudonné bodyguard, named only as Jessie, told the newspaper Libération: “In truth, they don’t give a stuff about Palestine, the black cause, or social inequalities.” Dieudonné has retaliated by accusing Mr Dalton of “extortion” and being a “Zionist stooge”. Mr Dalton has created, with friends, a website called Les Vrais Savent (“Real People Know”). In recent weeks they have posted the alleged email exchange between Mr Soral and Ms Bangoura – and the purported image of Mr Soral – in an attempt, they say, to reveal the true nature of Dieudonné’s political theories.
Ukip leader Nigel Farage has blamed Muslims for what he called “a sharp rise in antisemitism” in Britain and Europe.
Speaking during his weekly phone-in show on London’s LBC Radio, Mr Farage told a caller from Highgate: “I have detected quite a sharp rise in antisemitism, not just in this country, but across the rest of Europe too.
“What’s fuelling it is that there are many more Muslim voices, and some of those Muslim voices are deeply, deeply critical of Israel. In fact, some of them even question the right of Israel to exist as a nation.” He went on to say that the situation was inevitable “when you have a society that’s got a lot more different groups in it, you’re going to get these kind of conflicts".
Mr Farage also noted: “It’s quite interesting because there aren’t actually that many Jews in the country - there’s only a few hundred thousand.
“It just shows you what an extraordinary group of people they are, the success they’ve achieved, whether it’s media or politics.”
At this point the show’s host Nick Ferrari interjected with the suggestion of “banking”, to which Mr Farage responded: “Anything.”
Mr Farage, who attended a Ukip Friends of Israel event in Westminster on Tuesday, also criticised politicians for not standing up for Jews because of Israel.
Accusing the government of being “always frightened to say something for fear of causing offence to someone else,” he said Israel and Jews “often get conflated, and that’s really the point.
“I feel that we’re not being strong enough at times in defending the rights of the Jewish people to have a homeland because we worry that we’ll offend another group of people in the country.”
Barcelona High Court Judge Santiago Vidal said in the November-December edition of the local Delta magazine that the "facts indicates" that within three years a Catalan state could establish independence through "legal, political and peaceful means."
Without initial membership in the European Union, an independent Catalan state could not appeal to the Central Bank of Europe to finance its debts, said Vidal, a member of a pro-Catalan independence expert group.
"But there is a solution for this," Vidal said in the interview adding that "another state with solvency, basically speaking of Israel and Germany, will serve as our temporary bank."
Vidal downplayed the interviewer's doubts over whether it was "risky" to believe Israel would back a country seeking independence, given the Palestinian issue.
He stated that "the Palestinian issue is characterized by violence. Whereas, the Catalan issue is characterized by civic lessons, pacifism and the doing of good things that we are giving to the whole world. And this is something the Israelis like very much."
Jewish peers [Baroness Deech, Lord Mitchell, Lord Palmer, Emeritus Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks and Lord Leigh] have highlighted what they said was the hypocrisy of singling out Israel for blame in the ongoing troubles of the Middle East.
They voiced concerns over the focus on Israel’s actions in Gaza despite the growth of Islamic State, the continuing civil war in Syria, and Russian belligerence in Eastern Europe.
Labour’s Lord Mitchell led the defence of Israel during a four-and-a-half-hour debate in the Lords on Thursday.
The session included repeated attacks by former Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Tonge on what she called the “dangerous pro-Israel lobby”.
Lord Mitchell said: “Around the world, atrocities are being committed and we all wring our hands and do precious little, but when Israel alone defends herself, everybody goes ballistic. At best it can be called hypocrisy, and at worst it is called something else.”
He said he agreed with actress Maureen Lipman’s criticisms of his own party and its leader Ed Miliband on foreign policy.
“When we see demonstrations in the streets of London which are pro-Hamas with a nasty element of antisemitism thrown in, it beggars belief,” he said.
“When I see my good friend the MP Luciana Berger receive death threats from antisemitic Twitter trolls for her position on Israel, it shows where all this can lead.
“I ask this question: if the demonstrators are so concerned about countries that commit crimes against humanity, why do they not demonstrate against countries which make no secret of their barbarism?”
French satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné has reported that Benoît Hamon, a French politician, member of the Socialist Party and former the Minister for Education, has advised that the best way of attracting back Muslim voters (euphemistically named as "banlieues et quartiers") into the party's fold would be for the Socialist-led governement to recognise the state of Palestine.
Benoît Hamon believes that French Muslims are disappointed at President François Hollande's friendly stance towards Israel and that the way to placate the large and growing French Muslim minority is to recognise Palestine as a state.
The candidate selected to stand for the Conservative Party in an upcoming by-election in Kent is an anti-Israel activist at odds with the party’s stance on boycotts.
Kelly Tolhurst won an open primary to fight in Rochester and Strood next month.
A local businesswoman and councillor, Ms Tolhurst is known as a vocal anti-Israel campaigner in the area.
During the Gaza conflict in July and August her Twitter account regularly posted messages calling on supporters to boycott Israeli companies. She also re-posted messages from the "Free Gaza Movement".
She repeatedly targeted companies, including SodaStream and Ahava, and encouraged others to “hold Israel accountable for its violation of international law”.
