A British JP, Joy Wolfe (who I know) yesterday wrote on her Facebook page that:

I am deeply disturbed by the growing evidence of virulent antisemitism at the top level of the Labour Party. The latest examples come from members of the Shadow Cabinet and are frankly mind blowing and would seem more at home in Nazi Germany that multicultural Britain.

Communities spokesman Grahame Morris wants British Jews who serve in the Israeli defence force to be treated as suspected terrorists.

And Justice spokesman Richard Burgon has urged MPs and party members to quit the Labour Friends of Israel group, declaring: “Zionism is the enemy of peace.

I suppose that in trying to support the Palestinians at any price, such comments may appear justifiable to the socialist politicians. There again, I fail to find any statements from them regarding the 3,000+ Palestinians killed in Syria since 2011. Thus, clearly, the hate contained in their words is directed solely against Israel and its citizens.

So let us spend two minutes and look at some recent developments in Israeli society – three quick ‘did-you-knows’ and a bonus package for the MPs themselves.

• Did you know that the Israeli army has 18,000 thousand volunteers? And did you know that approximately 25% of them – about 4,500 – come from Arab communities (Muslim or Christian)? For the record, the numbers of Arabs in the army continues to grow every year.
• Did you know that in the aftermath of a fatal terrorist incident last month in the West Bank, one the first people on the scene to help was Dr Ali Abu Shareh. Now this is man, who assumedly rejects the concept of Jews living in places like Hebron and the West Bank. Yet he rightly and proudly placed humanity before politics. He tried to save lives. Ironically, Dr Shareh has since been fired from his job by his Palestinian superiors. Coincidence? Whatever – it has been left to the Jews of Hebron to help him find new employment.
• Did you know that Check Point, an Israeli company and a global leader in the fight against software fraud, has just discovered mega security flaws in 900 million android devices around the globe. I could cynically imagine that our intrepid MPs would prefer the bugs to remain in place rather than benefit from technology emanating from such a wicked country, ‘the enemy of peace’.

But here’s the crunch issue for the esteemed reps of the British people. It is now horrendously apparent that large chunks of British aid for the Palestinian people have been diverted towards the private bank accounts of their leaders – I suppose that technically they too are a part of the ‘people’ – or towards means of war against Israeli civilians. The trouble is that these monies come from the pockets of British taxpayers. They could have been used more effectively by true sufferers in other regions.

In other words, basic democratic principles of accountability and transparency have been flouted in the name of hatred. I can but presume that this is what Joy Wolfe is so rightly concerned about. It is the kind of ‘politically correct’ deceit that was used by Mosley in the 1930s.

It is the language that was rejected by one of the great democratic socialists of all eras, George Orwell, who described it as the defence of the indefensible. Shame upon them and their supporters.