UK Lawyers for Israel was asked to intervene by Jewish dentists who felt that the event would have been divisive and non-inclusive.

Wiley, who earlier this year was stripped of his MBE by the Honours Forfeiture Committee, went on an antisemitic tirade on social media in 2020, in which he compared Jews to the Ku Klux Klan, called on “black people” to go to “war” with Jews and claimed that Jews were “snakes”.

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