MP SPARKS OUTRAGE WITH
ANTISEMITIC COMMENTS
In a statement released on
Friday 25th January, the MP for Bradford East, David Ward, conflated Israel
Upon signing the Holocaust
Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment in the House of Commons, he stated
“having visited Auschwitz twice-one with my family and one with local schools-
I am saddened that the Jews who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution
during the holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death
camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and
continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza.
Ward’s comments incites
antisemitism and many believe are antisemitic, as it conflates Israel’s defence
of itself against those who seek to destroy it with the persecution and
terrible mass slaughter of the Jews of Europe during World War two. To compare
the two is crass, wrong and trivialises the suffering of Jews in World War 2.
He worsened his initial
transgression by stating It appears that the suffering by the Jews has not
transformed their views on how others should be treated." Whilst Mr Ward
has apologised for any offence caused by his remarks, the damage has already
been done and his demonisation of Israel
The Zionist Federation and
all its UK members will
always condemn strongly criticism of Israel
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