Jerusalem’s new UK-born deputy mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum says Israel has an issue with bad PR – and hasn’t done anything to deserve its bad reputation. She is the first British citizen to hold a senior political role in Israel.
So who is Fleur Hassan-Nahoum?
She is the new deputy mayor of Jerusalem who believes that Israel’s negative global perception is a consequence of “atrocious” PR. Hassan-Nahoum claimed there must be something more sinister at play to explain “how the liberal public in Europe have so blindly accepted the rhetoric” of the Palestinians.
“The world shouldn’t take this totally one-sided narrative of the poor Palestinian and this brutal, apartheid Israeli rule,” she said. “I can only conclude that the oldest hatred in the world, antisemitism, is just at play here.”
“Israel’s PR is currently atrocious and we are war criminals in the foreign media. I intend to become an important figure for Israel in terms of how we are represented outside of our country,” she added. She insists that is is the Palestinians, not the Israelites, who “time and again, when they are at a crossroads of peace or war, have chosen the path of war.”
Hassan-Nahoum is a member of the Yerushalmim party, and seeks to gain supporters from all strands of Israeli society – from Ethiopian Jews to ultra-Orthodox Charedi women. Local media have dubbed her the “Orthodox feminist.”
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