Go on keeping it real, David

So David Ward, lib dem MP for Bradford East, finds out the true meaning of political correctness in Britain today: you can't say anything negative about Israel, however disgracefully they are behaving. It's just not right, apparently, especially on Holocaust day. David was bemoaning the fact that the Jews, having come through a serious attempt to wipe them off the face of the Earth, are now acting in ways that the Nazis might have found familiar. To me though, the analogy is more with the Apartheid state of South Africa rather than the Nazis. They were trying to enclose the blacks in their "homelands" (an entirely artificial concept, developed by the government) and then keep them there to have their "separate development", because they were different from, and inferior to, the Whites. Go to Israel and you'll see exactly the same thing happening there.

But while the South African blacks received support from around the world, Israel's campaign of disinformation has been so effective that the Palestinians are thought of almost universally as a band of bloodthirsty terrorists, intent on throwing the Jews into the sea. The truth is much more banal. The Palestinian people are just a community of people who are denied the human rights of travel and full citizenship. They don't want murder and mayhem; they just want to get on with their lives in peace, without having their land stolen and their farms vandalised.