Deputy Leader Tom Watson of Britain's Labour Party wrote on Twitter, Monday, "The bar on Israeli paralympic swimmers from entry into Malaysia is completely unacceptable. The UK must demand this decision is reversed, or the world championships must move to a country where the ideals of the Olympic movement are upheld."
The Huffington Post reports that on Friday, Watson, who serves as Shadow Secretary for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, wrote a letter to that effect to Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.