Israeli ambassador met with key UK Labour donors and lobbyists throughout Gaza genocide

The Israeli ambassador to the UK has met with an array of Labour donors, pro-Israel lobbyists and parliamentarians during Israel's genocide in Gaza, it has emerged.

Tzipi Hotovely's diary has been obtained and reported on by Declassified UK, after being released following a Freedom of Information request by lawyer Elad Man at Hatzlacha, an NGO promoting social justice in Israel.

Hotovely, who once called the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, an "Arab lie" and is an avowed opponent of the creation of a Palestinian state, has become a prominent public figure in the UK and takes a markedly interventionist approach to British politics.

In recent months, for example, the ambassador issued an official complaint to the BBC over a documentary it aired on children in Gaza, because the child narrator was the son of a minister in the war-torn enclave. The film was ultimately pulled.

In July, she met Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, after complaining about the BBC iPlayer showing punk duo Bob Vylan chanting "Death to the IDF" during a performance at Glastonbury festival.