Right, so Israel has already faced criticism over Tommy Robinson, but it seems the fallout has not gone away and if anything, Israel’s problems off the back of this have only gotten bigger.

In October 2025, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, AKA Robinson AKA Tommy Ten-Names travelled to Israel at the personal invitation of Amichai Chikli, Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism. And even for Israel and it’s Zionist fan club, this was a tough pill to swallow. He is as we know a British far-right, anti-Islam activist whose politics had already made him toxic to many of the very British Jewish organisations Chikli’s ministry was supposedly there to engage with, literally Chikli’s remit as that is. The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council, infamous bodies as they are, publicly rejected the invitation ...