Tommy Robinson praises Israel at Tel Aviv event, blasts UK gov’t

British activist Tommy Robinson drew 1,000 supporters at a sold-out Tel Aviv event Saturday night.

By World Israel News Staff

Right-wing British activist Tommy Robinson spoke to a sold-out crowd of around 1,000 people in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, blasting political correctness and the liberal government running his country while praising Israelis for their patriotism and voicing full-throated support for the Jewish state.

Robinson — credited with exposing a British government and police cover-up of the mass rape of young British girls by older Muslim migrants — received a warm welcome from the diverse audience, which included both English-speaking immigrants and native-born Israelis.

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli (Likud), who invited Robinson to tour and speak in Israel, attended the event, along with Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman.

Also present was Sheffi Paz, a longtime anti-migration activist from South Tel Aviv. The talk was moderated by conservative Israeli commentator Gadi Taub.

Robinson’s wide-ranging speech covered several issues, including the UK government’s recent decision to recognize a Palestinian state. He said such a move would never have passed a public vote, claiming that most Britons stand with Israel and reject what he called a Palestinian “terror state.”

He argued that a “vocal minority” of far-left and terror supporters in the UK had been given an amplified voice by the media and government but that the “silent majority” in Britain was beginning to “wake up” to the dangers of Islamic extremism and mass immigration.

“There is an uprising, and the silent majority will be silent no more,” he said, citing a recent rally he had organized with more than 100,000 attendees.

Robinson said he was not surprised by the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists on October 7, warning that he had spent over a decade raising the alarm about Islamic extremism. However, he said he was “shocked by the response in the Western world.”

He blasted weekly anti-Israel protests in London, accusing authorities of giving “full reign of our capital cities to jihadists,” and criticized police for allowing demonstrators to wave Hamas, Hezbollah, and ISIS flags.

Shortly after Robinson began speaking, he was interrupted by former Times of Israel political correspondent Raoul Wootliff, who shouted, “Tommy Robinson is a racist” while holding a piece of paper with the same message.

Wootliff clashed with security, attempting to remain in the venue and trying to continue to disrupt the event.

He was eventually removed as the crowd chanted, “Shame on you.”

Unfazed, Robinson continued, saying Qatar that had poured billions of dollars into funding extremist Islamic preaching in Western European mosques.

He warned that the Gulf Kingdom was now paying influencers to promote pro-Islam content on social media.

Robinson denied claims that he is a racist, stressing that any person – regardless of faith, ethnicity, or sexual orientation – is welcome in his movement, under one condition: “That they love Great Britain.”