‘Get your house in order’: UK minister tells Israel to confront pogrom in West Bank

UK health secretary Wes Streeting has told the Israeli government to “get its own house in order” in response to questions about the controversy surrounding chants made by rapper Bob Vylan at Glastonbury Festival. Streeting used the interview with Sky News to call out the “pogrom” of non-Jews in the illegally occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers. “I wish they’d take the violence of their own citizens towards Palestinians more seriously,” said Streeting speaking to presenter Trevor Phillips, while calling attention to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and settler-led pogroms in the occupied West Bank . The health secretary warned that Israel’s refusal to hold its own citizens accountable was fuelling regional instability. Streeting’s comments followed the controversy surrounding British […]