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Ex-Israeli foreign minister granted diplomatic immunity

Friday, 19 June 2015 12:27 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 19 June 2015 2:14 PM ]

Tzipi Livni, former Israeli foreign minister © AFP

An anti-war activist has slammed the British government for what he calls protecting war criminals.

“It is a disgraceful policy intended to protect criminals on all levels not just the war criminals and crimes against humanity,” peace activist Kenneth O’Keefe told Press TV on Friday.

He was reacting to a recent decision by the British government to grant diplomatic immunity to former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni.

Zionist Union politician traveled to London earlier this week to take part in the Fortune Most Powerful Women International Summit in London.

"What we see in UK is that there is concerted effort on behalf of the government here to protect war criminals especially from Israel. The policy of the UK government is to harbor people like Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak, Netanyahu, or any other criminals from Israel that have committed the most atrocious crimes including using weapons like white phosphorus against the people in Gaza,” the former US marine reiterated.

Anti-war activists and pro-Palestinian campaigners had called for the arrest of Livni over alleged war crimes against the people of Gaza.

Back in 2009, pro-Palestine activists had petitioned a court in the UK to issue an arrest warrant for Livni for her involvement in Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people.

As Israeli foreign minister, Livni was involved in Tel Aviv’s decision to launch military strikes against the Gaza Strip at the turn of 2009.