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2005-04-11 Europe

Jewish MP pelted with eggs at war memorial

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Posted by ed 2005-04-11 9:28:33 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 His friend added: "She represented these people and then voted for the war. We all hate her. She comes here with her Jewish friends who are killing our people and then they come to our back yards. "It is out of order. What do they expect?"

If "his" people are being killed, there's no one stopping him from finding his way to Iraq to help them out.....and losing his life in the process. The UK would be better off as a result.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-04-11 10:55:36 AM|| 2005-04-11 10:55:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Miss King, 37, the black Jewish Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow,

This sounds like a person I could admire very much. Go Oona!!

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-04-11 12:02:18 PM|| 2005-04-11 12:02:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 LH -- she's apparently very much in the mainstream of the Labour party:

I agree that this is an outrage, but take a look at Oona King's web site at www.oonaking.com and read her comments about Israel. She considers Ariel Sharon a war criminal, calls for an economic boycott of Israel and in general parrot's the traditional dhimmi line that blames Israel for all the ills of the Middle East.

Still think she's all that admirable?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-04-11 12:37:27 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-04-11 12:37:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 (That's from the first comment at dhimmiwatch.)

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-04-11 12:38:27 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-04-11 12:38:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Anyone but George Galloway.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-04-11 3:52:57 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-04-11 3:52:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I especially liked the how Galloway played the race card. Ms. King, as a black Jewish woman Labourite who supports the war, must have given many a severe case of cognitive dissonance. The cure for that obviously is to egg an 89 year old WWII veteran.

Posted by ed 2005-04-11 4:03:57 PM|| 2005-04-11 4:03:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 RC 1. thats NOT the labour party line on Israel.

2. It sounds like shes desperately trying to hang on in a batty constituency. Still by supporting Iraqi liberation she has gone further than is politically good for her. She thinks Arik is a war criminal, but at least shes not willing to say all US and UK policy in the region is part of conspiracy of neocon "likudniks" as even the good Dr. Cole, so beloved of much of the liberal blogosphere in the US, seems to think. As the bible says of noah, he was righteous IN HIS generation.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-04-11 4:05:14 PM|| 2005-04-11 4:05:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 among many things on Israel with which I DO NOT agree, Ms King says the following:
"Israel, too, has certain rights. The right to live with secure borders, and without the threat of terrorist attack. "
How many of her constituents agree with that? Does George Galloway agree with that?

RC, I am represented in Congress by someone whose stated position on Israel is similar to Ms King's. I voted Republican for Congress for the first time in my life recently for that reason. But my congressman represents the Virginia suburbs of Washington, not the East End of London.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-04-11 4:12:14 PM|| 2005-04-11 4:12:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 according to the BBC, Bethnal Green and Bow, King's constituency, is 39% muslim.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-04-11 4:48:35 PM|| 2005-04-11 4:48:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Galloway's a bellwether. We can expect more and more leftists to find electoral gold in pandering to young jihad-supporting muslim voters. Within a generation I predict that most left-leaning political elites in Europe will owe their office to stridently anti-jewish politics.

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-11 5:18:50 PM|| 2005-04-11 5:18:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 thibaud - what makes you think it will take that long? A lot of them already do. Not that they have a problem with it.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-04-11 6:27:01 PM|| 2005-04-11 6:27:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Yes but they don't owe their very political careers to jew-baiting. That would represent a huge leap downward, and will take some time to achieve. All depends on the demographics.

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-11 7:22:25 PM|| 2005-04-11 7:22:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Oona King is an anachronism. Labour have allied themselves with the Muslim block vote - becoese they are more numerous. Jews are no longer wlecome in the party.

Posted by Bulldog 2005-04-11 7:26:17 PM|| 2005-04-11 7:26:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Labour have allied themselves with the Muslim block vote - because they are more numerous

I'm making a distinction between "allied" for tactical political advantage and a deep, fundamental shift that puts the new group at teh very center of the party's power base and long-term strategic direction.

At 10% of the electorate, a minority group like the muslims are a swing group that affects close races at the margin. The parties will shade their policy platforms accordingly but not necessarily add the minority group's hot-button issues to the top of the list of party priorities.

At 20%+, they become a core constituency that isn't merely appeased at election time. At that point their priorities become the party's enduring core priorities.

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-11 7:35:37 PM|| 2005-04-11 7:35:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Muslims only make up ca. 3% of the national vote, but they tend to vote en bloc which makes them more important a constituency than most others. The Jewish vote has become relatively insignificant, and is regarded by the Left as expendable, at best.

Additionally, Muslim political aactivists are known to be highly successful criminal voting factors. Labour's efforts to increase postal voting have been seized upon by corrupt local Labour representatives to promote Muslim politicians running for Labour. The Labour/Muslim alliance is a mutually beneficial symbiosis.

Posted by Bulldog 2005-04-11 7:41:42 PM|| 2005-04-11 7:41:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 vote en bloc, deport en bloc?

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-11 7:54:53 PM|| 2005-04-11 7:54:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 My point, LH, was that you should be more careful about who you voice admiration for. She may have the right stand on Iraq, but that hardly makes her an admirable figure.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-04-11 9:04:32 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-04-11 9:04:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Liberalhawk, are you represented by Jim Moraon? I pity you. I'm in the next district over, thank G-d.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2005-04-11 9:51:36 PM|| 2005-04-11 9:51:36 PM|| Front Page Top

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