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Alistair Campbell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

It's a very, very good point.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

I'm going to spend the whole evening thinking about which country might actually... What about Denmark?

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

Why Denmark?

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

Well, maybe on the point about why is the UK government being so silent, maybe your children should become the UK government.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

Now, let's move on.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

Richard, what did you make of the treatment of Gaza flotilla activists by Itamar Ben-Gavir and the Israeli forces?

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

And if people haven't seen this, it's this flotilla, I think about 400 people from 40 or different countries.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

I mean, largely symbolic, but with stuff that they're going to try to get to Gaza.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

They were essentially picked up by the Israeli authorities, and they were put in this place.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

And the pictures that were put out were of Ben-Gavir taunting them, abusing them.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

They were made to kneel.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

They had their foreheads on the ground.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

And he was basically laughing at them, frankly, for being activists.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

you know, you've had hostages that have been used by states.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

But I think you're right.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

I think this is more synonymous of a kind of non-state state actor.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

Ben Gavir has got a track record of, he says he's really, really proud that he's basically brought in a regime of effectively brutality in the prisons.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

It was a horrible thing I read recently about, you know, rape inside prisons has been used as a kind of weapon against some of these guys.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

And also, although Netanyahu, as you say, has rebuked publicly Ben-Gavir on a couple of occasions, on that specific thing, he basically said that he did not criticize what was the evidence, the people involved in the evidence that was produced.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

In fact, he called them heroes, didn't he, at one point?