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Have you heard?
The Scottish Parliament Petitions Committee has closed its deliberations on petition PE1324, Israel (Scottish Parliament Exhibition) after expending a lot of hot air – and little else!..cont'd

A Huffin’ & A Puffin’ all about Nothin’
The Scottish Parliament Public Petitions Committee met on June 22, 2005 to consider, among other items, a public petition to congratulate the Israeli traitor Mordechai Vanunu on his election as Rector of Glasgow University proposed by Mick Napier of the anti-Israel extremist group Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

Poor old Red Ken sure knows how to win friends and influence people!
Even with all the accusations of anti-Semitism recently thrown at him, his insulting manner towards Israel and friendship with the repulsive Yusef Qaradawi, there are still those who believe that he can be re-educated.

“Archbishop’s Christian pilgrimage to Bethlehem”
Two weeks before Christmas, and one week prior to Chanukah, the Church of England Newspaper published an article entitled “Archbishop’s Christian pilgrimage to Bethlehem”, describing his proposed pilgrimage as “purely pastoral” with “no political overtones”.

The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC)
has proposed on its website to infringe the true nature of Holocaust Memorial Day (January 28, 2007), causing even those who might be considered fellow-travellers in their demonising of Israel to baulk at using the memorial to the victims of the Holocaust as a weapon to attack the Jewish state.

The BBC has now expanded its perceived anti-Israel/anti-Semitic format from discussion and news items into Religion & Ethics?
On Thursday Feb 10, 2005, John Bell, of the Iona Community, whilst a guest on the BBC 'Thought for the Day', related a story he claimed was told to him by an Israeli Arab whom he met in Canada

The BBC - What happened next?
Having wished that they could have experienced one of those “breakdowns in the broadcast” that they used to be famous for, the BBC half-heartedly, if it could even be so described, “apologised” for the errors and for the offence that it caused by their “Thought for the Day” broadcast of Feb 10.

Hanna and her Sisters
Ruth Wishart gave a one-sided view of Israel when she wrote a sanitised account of the activities of grandmother, Hanna Barag, and her Machsom Watch (The Herald, Nov 22, 2004).

They said it…!

There were several pronouncements on Jews, Israel and the Middle East made during 2006, some profound, some provocative and some purely anti-Semitic.

Andrew Klavan, crime novelist, observed:

“There is one good thing about anti-Semitism. All bigotry is wrong, of course, but there's something about this particular form of prejudice that is weirdly reliable as a sign of deeper wickedness. Perhaps it's because the Jews contributed so much to humanity's moral code that to hate them as a race is to despise the restraints of morality itself”.

Denis McShane MP asked the question in the Daily Telegraph:

“What is it in the DNA of the British Establishment that blames the Jews first, last and always”?

But the words, most revealing of an anti-Semitic mindset were uttered by Baroness Jenny ‘The tongue’ Tonge at the 2006 Lib/Dem conference:

"The pro-Israeli lobby has got its grips on the western world, its financial grips. I think they have probably got a certain grip on our party".

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