This sceptred isle

Reflecting on that Dispatches programme, Tom Gross writes:

I wonder whether the directors of Britain’s well-regarded Channel 4 television, or the program-makers, have read — or even care about — the European Union’s working definition of antisemitism, part of which reads:

'Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective – such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.'

The program — which may leave many viewers with the impression that Britain’s 290,000 Jews somehow control the rest of the British population of 62,000,000 — has been widely plugged by neo-Nazi and left-wing antisemitic groups.

Do the program-makers care? Apparently not.

Presumably they won’t care either about the hatred...

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Everything is now illuminated

After watching Peter Oborne’s ‘Dispatches’ programme on the power of the Israel lobby in Britain, the scales have fallen from my eyes.

I now see things in an entirely different light. I now realise that the power of this unique cabal is so vast and unprecedented in its truly demonic power – a power given to no other lobby – that both the Labour government and Tory opposition slavishly and unquestioningly support Israel’s military actions and that the Guardian and the BBC have found themselves totally unable to publish or transmit anything other than wholehearted support for Israel.

I now realise that, every day, a cowed and intimidated Guardian publishes story after story in support of Israel, focusing relentlessly upon the beleaguerment of its citizens under the onslaught from Hamas while never carrying anything in favour of the Palestinians, presenting...

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Britain's least effective lobby?

In respect of tonight’s TV programme on the allegedly malign influence of the Israel lobby in Britain -- previewed here in today’s Guardian by presenter Peter Oborne -- readers may find enlightening these comments by Robin Shepherd, who takes issue with Oborne’s claim that he is not peddling ‘Jewish conspiracy theory’, and Tom Gross, who observes that there is no effective British pro-Israel lobby.

A propos, in view of Oborne’s suggestion that pressure from pro-Israel donors upon the Tory party silenced criticism of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza by the Tories’ foreign affairs spokesman William Hague, it is instructive to see what Hague actually said about that operation.

He first called for restraint from Israel:

‘We deeply regret the loss of civilian life in Gaza today.  We call on the Israeli government to

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The flight from reason in jihad denial syndrome

Two essential pieces on the hallucinatory madness of the reaction to the Fort Hood jihadi attack: the first by Mark Steyn and the second by Barry Rubin. Read, and tremble.

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And so it begins again

Readers might be interested to see in particular the comments below this advertisement for a TV programme to be transmitted tomorrow night.

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Oh dear...

The website devoted to monitoring the Guardian’s Comment is free site, CiF Watch, has a scoop which may be causing some sucking of cheeks at Guardian HQ, where there is no small anguish over job cuts with the Observer being stripped of some sections and the Guardian launching a voluntary redundancy scheme. Turns out that ‘Bella M’, the Cif moderator who abused her position by contributing her own ‘two-minute hate’ to the spittle-flecked thread abusing me below Ed Husain’s recent attack – but who, as the Jewish Chronicle reports today, was reprimanded but not disciplined by the paper despite her abuse of its own website’s code of conduct – is none other than the Guardian editor’s own daughter.

Read the whole thing here.

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