Israeli minister wears bulletproof vest to address UK crowd
The Israeli Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sharren Haskel, was clad in a bulletproof vest when she addressed people who had gathered in Manchester, in the UK, on October 5th, according to the Middle East Eye.
Addressing a crowd that had gathered to remember the victims of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue attack that occurred on October 2nd in Manchester, Haskel said, “[A]s a Jew, I am not safe in your streets.”
The Deputy Minister claimed to have been “threatened with death, for nothing more than [her] very existence.” She added: “I stand before you in a bulletproof vest, a Kevlar vest, here on this stage.”
More to follow.
Middle East Eye, Maghrebi.org
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