Mason – who had been an SNP MSP for 16 years – told BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland: “To be expelled over a disagreement over the definition of a word – an important word, genocide – but to be expelled for that reason is extremely disappointing.”
He said he was “happy” to repeat his claims.
“There is a war going on,” the MSP, who will now sit at Holyrood as an independent, said.
“Lives have been lost, desperately sadly, as they have been in Ukraine, as they have been in every war.
“But there is a difference between war and genocide and to say that every war is genocide is not the way we use that word.”
He said he “totally regretted” the loss of life but that Israel feels “very threatened”.
Mason told the BBC: “We don’t tend to say that the bombing of German cities was genocide, we don’t tend to say that Hiroshima was genocide – these were acts of war, maybe disproportionate.
“Genocide is a very serious word,” he added. “To just mix up the words genocide and war is not accurate.”
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