by Melanie Phillips
Britain has made itself an enemy of the Jewish people, a threat to the west and a menace to civilisation
There are few spectacles more disgusting than someone who announces that “as a Jew” he is taking vicious action that will actively harm the Jewish people.
In the House of Commons today, the UK’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband used this contemptible formulation when announcing the punishment of the state of Israel through trade sanctions against the “settlements”.
These are the communities of Israeli Jews that have developed in the ancient Jewish homeland of Judea and Samaria known in Britain as the “West Bank,” and who are the victims of a campaign of mass character assassination in Britain and the west as the latest strategy to destroy the world’s only Jewish state.
Miliband thus follows a tragically long line of people of Jewish origin who, throughout the centuries, have done the Jew-exterminators’ dirty work for them by inciting the mob to murderous frenzy against the Jewish people.
There is, alas, no shortage of such people today — the left-wing “as a Jew” antizionist enemies of the Jewish people who were amongst those consulted by Miliband to help craft his vicious and defamatory falsehoods.
It’s been pointed out that, despite Miliband’s attempt to distance this boycott from the BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions) movement whose declared aim is the destruction of Israel, the move will amount to a full Israel boycott because of the impossibility of differentiating between products from the “settlements” and those produced by other Israelis.
But the real issue is that the whole thing is based on ignorant and malevolent lies and distortions, behaviour directed at no other country, people or cause on earth.