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April 3, 2023

How Diaspora Jewish Leaders Should Respond to Israeli Political Controversy—and How They Shouldn’t

The UK’s Board of Deputies gives Netanyahu the cold shoulder.

Founded in 1760, the Board of Deputies of British Jews bills itself as “the only democratically elected, cross-communal, representative body in the Jewish community” of the United Kingdom, and enjoys an authority to speak for its constituents without parallel in the U.S. Thus its decision to ignore Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 24 diplomatic visit to London, where he met with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to discuss the Iranian nuclear program, was a significant one. Melanie Phillips argues it was also a bad one:

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