Why did UK media ignore Lammy's secret meeting with the Israeli FM? | Peter Oborne | MEE Opinion

In this opinion video, Peter Oborne, associate editor at Middle East Eye, highlights Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar’s "secret" visit to London, where he met with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy.

The meeting came as Israel faces genocide charges at the International Court of Justice and amid its ongoing blockade of Gaza.

Neither the British nor Israeli governments announced Sa’ar’s visit; it only came to light after Middle East Eye broke the story. Even then, the British media largely ignored it.

Oborne asserts that the British government wanted to keep this visit quiet, and journalists joined in in treating Saar’s visit as a "state secret".

Indeed, the secrecy surrounding Saar’s visit, which conveniently came during Parliament’s Easter recess, required the collaboration of the mainstream British media, Oborne says - and "as so often during the Gaza war, they cheerfully obliged".

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