Jake Wallis Simons
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Columns: @Telegraph. Podcast: @The_Brink_ (with @Mr_Andrew_Fox). My ‘Thinking HQ’: Substack. New book: ‘Never Again? How the West Betrayed the Jews and Itself’
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Here's a simple, democratic challenge to Ed Miliband: produce the evidence to support your lurid Gaza video, or withdraw the claims. The Foreign Secretary recorded a video in which he recounted what he himself called “stories” he had been told, among them the claim that medicine was being kept out of the Strip, with children “dying” as a consequence. He offered nothing to support it. No agency data, no named source, no figures on what crossed which crossing and when. Israel’s foreign ministry replied that there are no restrictions whatsoever on medicines entering Gaza, and suggested he might take an interest in facts rather than “stories”. Assertions of this sort, made by a private citizen, are gossip. Made by a foreign secretary, with the machinery of the British state standing behind him, they become propaganda at best and, if they cannot be stood up, untruths at worst. Britain has diplomats, defence attachés, an aid department and one of the finest intelligence services in the world. If the claim is true, the evidence must exist. Let us see it. Because there is a bill attached to all this, and Mr Miliband is not the one who pays it. Consider what he is so busy “resetting”. Around one in seven prescriptions dispensed in this country is filled by a single Israeli manufacturer, which employs more than 1,500 people here. The swallowable camera capsule that the NHS has been giving to thousands of bowel patients was devised by an Israeli engineer who took the imaging optics out of a guided missile and turned them on the human gut. When Challenger 3 enters service next year, our tank crews will sit behind an Israeli system that shoots incoming anti-tank rounds out of the air, bought for £20 million, which in defence procurement is a rounding error. The Watchkeeper drone was assembled in Leicester. Trade between the two countries runs to £5.9 billion a year, and we sell them considerably more than we buy. Then there is the part nobody puts in a video. In 2015, acting on a tip-off from Israeli intelligence, MI5 and the Metropolitan Police searched four properties in north-west London and removed three tonnes of ammonium nitrate concealed inside ice packs. A Hezbollah bomb factory, on a residential street, in this city. That is one instance we happen to know about. The others, by their nature, we do not. None of which obliges anybody to admire the Israeli government, and a British foreign secretary is perfectly entitled to criticise an ally in public. That is his job, and sometimes it is his duty. But he is not entitled to do it on the strength of “stories”. That is what democracies are about. Scrutiny. I repeat: Produce the evidence, Mr Miliband, or withdraw the claims. Full interview in first reply.
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“You’re Islamophobic.” “No, I’m not.” “You’re a fan of Tommy Robinson.” “No, I’m not.” “You’re unfair on the Church of England.” “No, I’m not.” A pleasure to chat to Lord Ed Vaizey on Times Radio about my new book, 'Never Again? How the West Betrayed the Jews and Itself', today.
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Absolute state of this! Riots erupted in Italy over the presence of a *single Jewish stall* at a jewellery fair in Vicenza. Police fired water cannons after hundreds of protesters threw flares during clashes described by local officials as an “urban guerrilla war” and a “serious episode of intolerance and antisemitism”. The annual jewellery fair, Vicenzaoro, is one of the biggest trade events in the jewellery world. This year, the 70th-anniversary celebration exhibition involved more than 1,300 exhibitors from approximately 40 countries, including Israel. Protesters objected to Israel’s inclusion and planned a demonstration to oppose the presence of the Jewish state at the fair. Great report by Jane for The Jewish Chronicle. Full story below:
Jake Wallis Simons888,388 次观看 • 2 年前
