The United Kingdom’s newest Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who began his term on Tuesday, is considered a strong supporter of Israel and a friend of Britain’s Jewish community.
At an event organized by the Conservative Party’s Friends of Israel last August, Sunak argued that Jerusalem was “indisputably the historic capital” of Israel and that there was a “very strong case” for moving the UK embassy from its current location in Tel Aviv.
The United Kingdom’s newest Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who began his term on Tuesday, is considered a strong supporter of Israel and a friend of Britain’s Jewish community.
At an event organized by the Conservative Party’s Friends of Israel last August, Sunak argued that Jerusalem was “indisputably the historic capital” of Israel and that there was a “very strong case” for moving the UK embassy from its current location in Tel Aviv.
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“This is something I would like to do,” he said, acknowledging that the subject was “sensitive” and that “if it was so easy, it would have been done already.
Sunak also called Israel a “beacon of hope” and affirmed his firm opposition to the boycott of the Jewish state in interviews with various community media, and assured that the Jewish community was “right” to denounce “those who seek to harm the only Jewish state in the world.
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