An Israeli diplomat calls the British Foreign Minister an “idiot”

Al-Jazeera released the first of four videos with the footage from an undercover Al-Jazeera reporter that shows Israeli diplomat Shai Masot talking to Maria Strizzolo, former aide to British education minister, about ‘taking down’ parliamentarians considered anti-Israel in their views.

The video, allegedly recorded by an Al-Jazeera reporter posing as a pro-Israel advocate and not by any security services, shows the Israeli embassy employee Shai Masot, freely admitting that he wasn’t a diplomat, speaking to Maria Strizzolo, a civil servant who was formerly an aide to Conservative Minister Robert Halfon.

The recordings form the basis of four half-hour documentaries that al-Jazeera is to broadcast starting January 15.