For criticising Israel support
law,” he said. “I think the time has come to flush out those extremists in our own parliamentary politics and around it.”
He also said that security minister Tom Tugendhat should be sacked.
He added: “If you read about Tom Tugendhat ... How can you have a security minister who does not believe in international law? I think he should be sacked.”
He continued: “We should stop arms sales immediately. Anything in support of what is becoming a total catastrophe in Gaza is morally unacceptable.
“And what we have to accept is that it’s not just what they are doing now that is wrong, it’s what Israel has been doing for years that is wrong because the Israel Defence Force does not follow international law, it has been backing and supporting illegal settlers in the West Bank who steal Palestinian land.
“It is that land theft, that annexation of Palestine, that is the origin of the problem, which has given rise to the Hamas atrocity and the battles we are seeing.”
A Conservative Party spokesperson said: “Following his comments on LBC this morning, Alan Duncan has been informed in writing that he is under investigation by the party.”
Meanwhile, a new diplomatic crisis between Poland and Israel has erupted amid shock over the death of Polish aid worker Damian Sobol in an Israeli air strike.
On Tuesday, Israel’s ambassador to Poland Yacov Livne pushed back at what he said were attempts by the “extreme right and left in Poland” to accuse Israel of “intentional murder in the attack”.
Yesterday, Polish president Andrzej Duda called the comment “outrageous” and described the ambassador as “the biggest problem for the state of Israel in relations with Poland”.