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An umbrella group representing British Jews told an Israeli ultranationalist politician on Thursday that he is unwelcome, drawing outcry from Israeli opposition politicians. Bezalel Smotrich is leader of the small, far-right Religious Zionist Party in the Knesset that is currently in the opposition. He has a long record of anti-Palestinian and homophobic remarks, and until last year served as a government minister. Smotrich said in October that David Ben-Gurion, the founder of Israel, should have “finished the job” of expelling Palestinians from their homeland. The Board of Deputies of British…