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Source: https://www.jpost.com/international/article-872666
Former UK PM Boris Johnson: "Strange to See Intellectuals Supporting Hamas"
(Jerusalem Post) Josh Aronson - Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a European Jewish Association conference that it was "strange to see intellectuals supporting Hamas....It is sad and surprising to see a large number of middle-class intellectuals wearing keffiyehs, marching in the streets of London, and calling for Israel to be wiped off the map." Johnson urged political leaders "to tell the truth" about the difference between Israel and Hamas, "an organization that still holds to its charter calling for the destruction of Israel." Johnson criticized the decision by Britain to recognize a Palestinian state. "Israel has always faced an existential threat. Why choose this particular moment? Under the conditions of the Montevideo Convention of 1933...[a Palestinian state] doesn't even meet the criteria. You don't know the borders of this entity, you don't know who will run it. It was about managing the pressure within the Labour Party...and Muslim constituencies in metropolitan areas."