The Zionist Lobby Veto and the British Government
August 26th, 2011
By Tim Ross, Telegraph
The international development minister, Alan Duncan, has been forced to remove a video from a government website in which he accused Israelis of a “land grab” in the middle-east after protests from Jewish leaders.
Mr Duncan, Conservative MP for Rutland and Melton, also accused Israeli settlers of “deliberately” taking water away from the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Israeli Embassy criticised Mr Duncan for his remarks about Israel’s controversial security wall. The minister has now removed the video from the Department for International Development’s website, claiming that his comments had been “misinterpreted”.
In the video Mr Duncan declared: "The wall is a land grab. It hasn't just gone along the lines of the proper Israel boundary.
“It's taken in open land which actually belongs to Palestine. Israeli settlers can build what they want and then immediately get the infrastructure so that takes the water deliberately away from Palestinians here.”
The Board of Deputies wrote to Mr Duncan – and the Foreign Secretary William Hague – and demanded that he take the video down. Shortly afterwards, the footage was removed.
Jews sans frontieres summarises,
"So a UK minister has used a video on a government website to express government policy on Palestine and the Board of Deputies of British Jews has told him not to do that. And he has dutifully removed the video from the site.
We now have two front page articles in the most recent edition of the Jewish Chronicle boasting of a Jewish lobby group's ability to effect government behaviour and policy. Next week perhaps there will be a couple of front pages telling us that it is antisemitic to speak of a Jewish lobby."
