ANGUS Robertson has apologised for meeting a senior Israeli diplomat after a backlash from SNP members.
Nationalist MSPs reacted with fury after the External Affairs Secretary welcomed Daniela Grudsky to Edinburgh two weeks ago.
Hundreds of rank-and-file SNP members have quit the party in protest.
Robertson said: "Given the Israeli UK deputy ambassador had requested a meeting, it was an opportunity to express the Scottish Government's clear and unwavering position on an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and I did exactly that.
"No one intended that this meeting be presented as legitimising the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza.
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