Mr Ward, you sir are a pillock.

If you want to criticise Israeli policy or Bibi then do so explicitly. But you’d have to have the political instincts of a blancmange to use the term “the jews” and think that is acceptable.

You have been rightly taken to task. Your party leader should issue an ultimatum – apologise or step down.

“To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.”

Voltaire.

Is it not allowed to mention B’Tselem? Two posts have been deleted which referred to the Israeli human rights organisation which meticulously documents the deaths of Palestinians and Jews in the Occupied Territories and Gaza. B’Tselem shows that 6500 Arabs have been killed by the IDF in Gaza and the West Bank since 2001, with at least 3000 of them taking no part in hostilities. Over 1300 of the dead were minors. The number dead Jews, though every lost life is a crime is tiny by comparison, and the number killed by rocket fire is less than thirty in the same period.

Look up the data from the Jewish human rights organisation in Israel. Google:

B’Tselem + palestinian deaths

Some key UN Security Council Resolutions on Palestine

252
(21 May 1968)
Urgently calls upon Government of Israel
to rescind measures that change the legal status of Jerusalem, including the
expropriation of land and properties thereon.

262
(31 December 1968)
Calls upon Government of Israel to pay
compensation to Lebanon for the destruction of airliners at Beirut
International Airport.

267
(3 July 1969)
Expects Israel rescind measures seeking
to change the legal status of occupied East Jerusalem.

271
(15 September 1969)
Expects the demand that Government of
Israel rescind measures seeking to change the legal status of occupied East
Jerusalem.

298
(25 September 1971)
Expects the demand that Government of
Israel rescind measures seeking to change the legal status of occupied East
Jerusalem.

446
(22 March 1979)
Calls on Israel to cease, on an urgent
basis, the establishment, construction, and planning of settlements in the
Palestinian Territories, occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem.

452
(20 July 1979)
Expects Israel cease, on an urgent
basis, the establishment, construction, and planning of settlements in the
Palestinian Territories, occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem.

465
(1 March 1980)
Expects Israel cease, the establishment,
construction, and planning of illegal settlements in the Palestinian
Territories, occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem.

471
(5 June 1980)
Demands prosecution of those involved in
the assassination attempt of West Bank leaders and compensation for damages;
Expects demands to comply by Fourth Geneva Convention.

484
(19 December 1980)
Expects
Israeli compliance with the Fourth Geneva Convention.

573
(4 October 1985)
Condemns
the Government of Israeli with respect to the attack in Tunisia. Call on Israel
to pay compensation for human and material losses from its attack and to
refrain from all such attacks or threats of attacks against other nations.

592
(8 December 1986)
Demands Israel comply with the Fourth
Geneva Conventions in all Occupied Palestinian Territories including East
Jerusalem.

605
(22 December 1987)
Calls upon the Government of Israel, the
Occupying Power, to comply by the Fourth Geneva Convention.

607
(5 January 1988)
Expects Israel to comply with the Fourth
Geneva Convention as well as cease its practice of deportations from the
Occupied Palestinian Territories.

608
(14 January 1988), 636 (6 July 1989), 641 (30 August 1989)
Expects that Israel cease the
deportations of Palestinian people from the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

672
(12 October 1990)
Expects Israel to comply by the
provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories.

673
(24 October 1990)
Demands that the Israel come into compliance with UN Resolution 672.

681
(20 December 1990)
Expects
Israel to comply with the Fourth Geneva Convention with respect to the Occupied
Palestinian Territories including East Jerusalem.

694
(24 May 1991)
Expects that Israel stop Palestinian
civilian deportation from the Occupied Palestinian Territories and ensure the
safe and immediate return of deportees.

726
(6 January 1992)
Expects Israel to comply with the
provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention and to cease its deportation
practice from Occupied Palestinian Territories.

799
(18 December 1992)
Reaffirms
Fourth Geneva Convention to all Palestinian Territories occupied by Israel
since 1967, including Jerusalem. Also affirms that deportation of civilians
constitutes a contravention of its obligations under the Convention.

904
(18 March 1994)
Israel is called upon, as the occupying
power, to take and implement measures, inter alia, confiscation of arms, with
the aim of preventing illegal acts of violence by settlers.

1073
(28 September 1996)
Calls on the safety and security of Palestinian civilians to be ensured.

1322
(7 October 2000)
Calls upon Israel to comply with the
Fourth Geneva Convention regarding the responsibilities of the occupying power
in the Palestinian Territories.

1402
(30 March 2002)
Calls for Israel to withdraw from Palestinian cities.

1403
(4 April 2002)
Demands that the Government of Israel go through with the implementation of UNSC
Resolution 1402.

1405
(19 April 2002)
UN inspector call to investigate
civilian deaths during Israel’s assault on the Palestinian Jenin refugee camp.

1435
(24 September 2002)
Calls on Israel to withdraw to positions
of September 2000 and end its military activities in and around Ramallah,
including the destruction of security and civilian infrastructure.

She was also of the Liberal Party, Baroness something or other of Richmond, who wanted to be a suicide bomber so that she could blow up Israeli citizens. What is wrong with these people who hide their fascism behind a benign Any Questions liberalism.

hmm Bradford East – who says MP’s don’t represent the views of their electorates…

Most of the population of Israel is not related to any Jewish people who perished in, or were subject to, the Holocaust. The two biggest groups are Russian and Morrocans, neither of whom suffered in this way. Ignorance is the basis of racism.

Anti-Semitism is ‘irrational hatred’ of Jews; Arab terrorism is supposed to have a ’cause’ for which the Israeli Jews are supposed to share culpability. Some among them even believe that if Israel would only give in to all Palestinian demands the violence against Jews in the world would cease. Anti-Semitism is not something that was eradicated together with the Jews in the ovens of Auschwitz. Rather it was put to rest, only to emerge in multiple forms years later, as overt and covert anti-Semitism. And there is plenty of the latter. When people protest that it’s not the Jews they hate, they simply want to condemn Israeli policies against the Palestinians; this is covert Anti-Semitism. When Israel is singled out for condemnation, while wholesale slaughter and human rights abuses abound in other countries; this is anti-Semitism. So many decades ago six million Jews did not have the protection of a strong and determined Jewish state. They thought they had the protection of the Allies who flew over Auschwitz in 1944, yet did nothing.
‘Never again’ will always be Israel’s overriding policy, while always acknowledging the fact that the past is never ever that far behind.

I must have missed that snippet of news about Israel rounding up Palestinians, herding them into concentration camps and gassing them.

It’s not like the unspeakable BBC to miss something like that!

He’s the MP for Bradford, of course – which is about half Asian Muslims, I think. He got in probably by slagging off the sitting Labour MP after Blair’s Iraq venture (Muslims always support Muslims, even if they’re fascists in countries they know nothing about – the ‘ummah’, donchaknow…)
He is merely stating the view of most anti-Israel MPs and commentators – many express love for the Palestinians and Hamas, that neo-facist organisation which wants to eradicate all Jews from the face of the earth (That preening middle class meeja moocher Owen Jones is a big fan…).
So why on earth are these people joining in with National Holocaust Day anyway? Shouldn’t they have their own National Hitler Day or something, where they can re-enact the annihilation of their jew enemies? That is. after all, what a great many Muslims want, if we’re honest.
But then, when are we ever honest? The Meeja (esp TV esp the BBC) aren’t, anyway, as they constantly portray Muslims as fluggy bismillah bunnies hopping around in peace and love, rubbing noses and whiskers with their bestest fwends, the jews and infidels… Who woulda thunk that 15% of British Muslims think that the bomb attacks in 2005 were a ‘good thing’ and that it’s justifiable to kill non-Muslims?