Selected extracts from Conservative MP Alan Duncan, former deputy foreign minister to Boris Johnson , concerning Israeli interference within the conservative party and government.
Conservative Friends of Israel succeeded in stopping Boris Johnson appointing Duncan as Middle East minister, Duncan claims in diaries
Opposition was âfor no other reason than that I believe in the rights of the Palestiniansâ, Duncan wrote
Johnson was âindignantâ, exclaiming âThey shouldnât behave like thisâ, referring to the Israelis, Duncan reported
Level of Israeli influence amounts to âentrenched espionageâ and means âour own national interest is being taken for a suckerâ, according to Duncan
Foreign Office refuses to comment toDeclassifiedon Duncanâs allegations
The headline is misleading there. She hasnât refused to sell Hebrew translation rights full-stop. She has refused to sell Hebrew translation rights to the Israeli company Modan because she believes in BDS.
Par for the course, init. Anyone that supports BDS is an anti-semite, according to Netanyahu. I know heâs not in charge anymore, but thatâs a common view.
I think Rooney set out her case carefully and well. She was smart to mention the apartheid of South Africa and smarter still to mention that back then, there were other rogues on the world stage and yet it didnât seem to stop people boycotting SA.
In a way, quite sad to have to jump through so many hoops just to make the simplest of points without being labelled a giant and moreover, a specialist form of racist.
The headline says âIsraeli translationâ, not âHebrew translationâ. I canât see anything in either the headline or the article that portrays her as antisemitic.
Sheâs no more anti-semitic than Jeremy Corbyn. The trouble is that the headline alone is enough to imply that she is, before anyone even starts to read the article.
The Israelis never waste a good crisis. They had a field day when Bush started on about Iraqi terrorism, safe in the knowledge that nobody important could criticise them for similar behaviour.
