Sir Eric Pickles was pleased to announce a ban on BDS, a movement of which I am far from uncritical, in the King David Hotel, a building with a history that he presumably declined to mention.
Labour's submission to the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism means that it could not now resist the outright criminalisation of any such reference. Nor will it. Nor, already, does it in practice.
It is also now impossible for anyone to resist the criminalisation, which again is already in place in practice, of any reference to the continuous two thousand year Christian presence in the Holy Land, the presence that founded modern Palestinian national consciousness.
For 18 centuries, from the destruction of the Temple to the early Zionist settlements, the Land must be said to have been "Empty". Or the race relations legislation, which ought to have no application here, will be invoked in order to send you to prison.
Watch the Midnight Mass from Bethlehem this year, and think on that. Next year, it will probably not be shown in this country, for fear of imprisonment. And there will be nothing that the Labour Party will be able to say or do about that, because it has sold the pass.
But I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
Labour's submission to the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism means that it could not now resist the outright criminalisation of any such reference. Nor will it. Nor, already, does it in practice.
It is also now impossible for anyone to resist the criminalisation, which again is already in place in practice, of any reference to the continuous two thousand year Christian presence in the Holy Land, the presence that founded modern Palestinian national consciousness.
For 18 centuries, from the destruction of the Temple to the early Zionist settlements, the Land must be said to have been "Empty". Or the race relations legislation, which ought to have no application here, will be invoked in order to send you to prison.
Watch the Midnight Mass from Bethlehem this year, and think on that. Next year, it will probably not be shown in this country, for fear of imprisonment. And there will be nothing that the Labour Party will be able to say or do about that, because it has sold the pass.
But I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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