The fake outrage now sweeping through British media and political circles about Shimon Peres’ analysis of anti-Israel hostility in the UK is something to behold. Peres had made a series of remarks about Britain and other European countries to Tablet Magazine.
As anyone who reads the comments can see (link above) Peres was measured and fair in his analysis which centred on long standing pro-Arab sentiment in important parts of the British establishment, attempts to appease Britain’s Muslim population and traditions of anti-Semitism in some quarters. He did acknowledge that there was also some support for Israel in Britain but portrayed that as a minority pursuit largely confined to sections of the British right.
So, nothing much to take issue with here, right? Not according to Conservative parliamentarian Andrew Rosindell who was quoted in the Daily Express as describing Peres’ remarks as “wholly inaccurate” and “inappropriate”. “Maybe he should spend more time here, get to know the British people and realise we defeated the Nazis in the war,” said Rosindell, making the embarrassingly elementary mistake of confusing correlation with causation — Britain’s brave stance in WWII stopped the Holocaust from being completed, but we did not go to war to stop the Holocaust. We went to war to prevent German expansionism and save our own skins.
But it gets worse.
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