by Ian Mosley

Britain is a strange land. I’ve reported on their Orwellian practices including the ubiquitous closed circuit television cameras and the proposed “license to smoke.” And yet in the British media it is possible to talk about Jews and Israel in a way which would simply never see the light of day at all in the United States. Individuals still go to prison under the notorious Race Relations Act for criticizing people with brown skins, but (and I may be wrong on this) I can’t recall that anyone has been imprisoned recently for so-called “anti-Semitism;” even the Irving trial was years ago, and that was a civil lawsuit pointlessly initiated by Irving himself.

The Guardian newspaper recently ran an article entitled “How Labour Used The Law to Keep Criticism of Israel Secret.” That headline alone would never have seen the light of day in the United States, and anyone who wrote it at any newspaper would simply have been fired before the day was out. The article begins, “The full extent of government anxiety about the state of British-Israel relations can be exposed for the first time today in a secret document seen by the Guardian. The document reveals how the Foreign Office successfully fought to keep secret any mention of Israel contained on the first draft of the controversial, now discredited Iraq weapons dossier. At the heart of it was nervousness at the top of government about any mention of Israel’s nuclear arsenal in an official paper accusing Iraq of flouting the UN’s authority on weapons of mass destruction.”

In other words, Jews get to have all the WMDs they want, while Israel’s Muslim neighbors are denied any.

The Guardian goes on: “The dossier was made public this week, but the Foreign Office succeeded before a tribunal in having the handwritten mention of Israel kept secret. The FO never argued that the information would damage national security. The Guardian has seen the full text and a witness statement from a senior Foreign Office official, who argued behind closed doors that any public mention of the candid reference would seriously damage UK/Israeli relations. In the statement, he reveals that in the past five years there have been 10 substantial incidents and 20 more minor ones relating to Israeli concerns about attitudes to their government within Whitehall.”

In other words, Israel runs the British government just like they run the American government.

Guardian: “The Information Tribunal, which adjudicates on disputes involving the Freedom of Information Act, agreed to remove the single reference to Israel when it ordered the release of the draft of the Iraqi weapons dossier written by John Williams, the FO’s chief information officer at the time. Along with unfavourable references to the US and Japan, the reference to Israel was written in the margin by someone commenting on the opening paragraph of the Williams draft. It was written against the claim that ‘no other country [apart from Iraq] has flouted the United Nations’ authority so brazenly in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction’.”

Which is of course perfectly true, but apparently unfit for the British public to read.

The willingness to criticize Israel in the United Kingdom is due in a large part to the fact that such criticism is leftist in nature and that Israel (a socialist society from top to bottom) is for some odd reason viewed as “right wing” by the left-liberal establishment in the U. K. In Britain, left-wingers enjoy virtual immunity to all the various censorship laws designed to stifle protest and critical comment from the island’s native-born white majority.