David Ward and the Ruthless Suppression of Anti-Israel Criticism – Spectator Blogs

David Ward, Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East, is unhappy that his recent comments about The Jews attracted such widespread criticism. You see:

“There is a huge operation out there, a machine almost, which is designed to protect the state of Israel from criticism. And that comes into play very, very quickly and focuses intensely on anyone who’s seen to criticise the state of Israel. And so I end up looking at what happened to me, whether I should use this word, whether I should use that word – and that is winning, for them. Because what I want to talk about is the fundamental question of how can they do this, and how can they be allowed to do this.”

As machines go, this one seems a pretty Heath Robinson contraption, idiosyncratically constructed and wildly inefficient. It certainly ain’t a marvel of mechanised efficiency. We kinda know this since, with the possible exception of the United States, there ain’t a country in the whole world that’s more criticised than the state of Israel.