February 4, 2007
BECAUSE SOMEONE HAS TO WORK THE OVENS?:
British Jews break away from 'pro-Israeli' Board of Deputies (Martin Hodgson, 05 February 2007, Independent)
A new organisation to represent British Jews is to be launched today in response to a perceived pro-Israeli bias in existing Jewish bodies in the UK.The founders of Independent Jewish Voices, IJV, which will include such luminaries as the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter and the historian Eric Hobsbawm, say that the group is being established as a counter-balance to the uncritical support for Israeli policies offered by established bodies such as the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 4, 2007 9:22 PM
Luminaries? "Historian" Eric Hobsbawm? I thought he was just a Stalinist mouthpiece, still clinging to the dream.
Posted by: ratbert at February 4, 2007 10:54 PMOT Via Instapundit:
GEORGE SOROS LOSES IT.
Let's taint Maverick. He took his money and gave us CFR.
That Hobsbawm guy isn't a good Communist yet? Damn!
Posted by: Lou Gots at February 5, 2007 3:35 AMIf you're living in a parallel universe, you might as well make it official.... (Letterhead, press releases, officially sanctioned tantrums instead of just private, personal ones.)
Besides, imagine what fun it will be pissing off the mainstream British Jewish Community!! (while you mutter your truth to power bid).
Posted by: Barry Meislin at February 5, 2007 4:25 AMWell it could be worse. They could be makiong lame excuses for a terrorists promoting Iranian regime whose every leading member of the ruling cliques has called for the nuclear destuction of Israel.
Posted by: Ahab at February 5, 2007 5:38 AMAnti-Zionist Jews are a threat to Israel. Iran isn't.
Posted by: oj at February 5, 2007 8:19 AM