Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has sparked outrage after posting footage taunting activists detained while travelling on a Gaza-bound flotilla. Ben-Gvir has been condemned by the international community including Britain and has even prompted a rare rebuke from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In one clip, Ben-Gvir is seen waving an Israeli flag shouting “welcome to Israel! We are in charge here”, in a room of dozens of activists forced to kneel on the floor with their hands tied. James O'Brien is joined by Clare Azzougarh, the daughter of Malcolm Ducker, a 72 year-old-British RAF veteran who's been caught up in the Ben-Gvir flotilla controversy. Listen to the full show on the all-new LBC App: https://app.af.lbc.co.uk/btnc/thenewlbcapp #lbc #jamesobrien #israel #middleeast #bengvir #news #politics #middleeastcrisis #middleeastconflict LBC is the home of live debate around news and current affairs in the UK. Join in the conversation and listen at https://www.lbc.co.uk/ Sign up to LBC’s weekly newsletter here: https://l-bc.co/signup
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If they do this to westerners of camera , imagine what they do to Palestinians off-camera
What do you expect from a genocidal government led by war crimnals?
I'm glad someone is covering this madness
Look at him hide behind all his security. What a coward.
True Israeli values.
They aren’t prisonners, they are abducted by criminals.
They keep making out that Gvir is the only one. The majority of the Israeli government and the Israeli people are OK with this.
Absolutely sickening - Shame the Western media does not have the same outrage when Israel does a lot worse to Palestinians
I'm so angry I'm crying.
Ben Gvir is the future of Israel. He is the personification of Israeli society.
He is Israel personified.
Kidnapped is spot on
Numerous aid groups, Palestinians, and the Israeli soldiers have been talking about the illegal abuse of prisoners in Israel for years, but we are all acting like this is a surprise.
They have always abused the flotilla members, but have gotten more brutal about it because they keep getting away with it. The Western governments are fully complicit here because they have demonized this mission over and over.
Remember people like Blair, Starmer, Farage and "Tommy Robinson" view Israel as a friend because we share the same values. Well, oddly enough, high-sea piracy, torture and kidnap are not MY VALUES and officially haven't been British values since Frances Drake. I believe we preferred the euphemism "Buccaneer" back then.
I'm sorry James. It hurts me to say this. It takes white people getting captured for anyone to even notice. It hurts. It hurts so much.
Israel's a great example of western hypocrisy and corruption
Your Dad is a hero
It’s absolutely shocking what the Israeli government are doing. Imagine if Iran abducted Europeans and UK nationals in international waters and paraded them in front of media!!!
And what has Starmer done.........nothing !