The Times piece has a quote from the UK’s (Jewish and trying too hard not to be seen as pro-Jewish) Ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould.

“In what some might consider unfortunate timing, however, the British ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, was quoted Thursday downplaying the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity on campus. During an interview on his “ambitious strategy to persuade Israeli students to study in the UK,” Gould told the Times Higher Education magazine that “an image has taken hold of British universities that they are anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic, that they are not safe for Israeli students.” He blamed the unrealistic, “cartoonish” perceptions of UK universities on an “accumulation of small stories” in the Israeli media.”

I attended two UK universities two decades ago and I could already see bad signs coming in the form of Muslim student associations adopting the “Palestinian” false narrative and pushing this. Today the campuses are hot beds of BDS movements, anti-Israel (thinly disguised anti-Jew) sentiments. It’s well known and Israelis in particular who study at UK universities keep their heads down mostly. I know this from speaking to many.

Today the “small accumulation of stories” is pointing the way forward for the UK in just the same way the “small accumulation of stories” about abuse of Jews from Germany did in the 30′s. It always starts small.

I’m getting over four million search results for “UK university antisemitism“. Where there’s smoke, there’s usually a fire and today, where there is Jew hatred and anti-Zionism, there’s usually a British University campus.

David Ward MP with a Swastika from his own website – Guido Fawkes Blog

You may remember the UK Liberal MP, David Ward, who picked Holocaust Memorial day to lash out at “the Jews” who he believes are becoming the new Nazis and lining up to march all the Arabs into gas chambers one day.

Well he’s given an interview to the Guardian and he just doesn’t know when to stop. The Guardian does it’s best to clean up the views of this accidental Jew hater but he can’t help himself. Once again comparing the treatment of Jews by the Nazis to the treatment of Palestinians by Israel he says:

What was comparable was the treatment of people by people. Because, don’t forget, long before the death camps were set up, the treatment of the Jews in many of these European countries, and of course following 1933, in particular in Nazi Germany, was racist, and directed at the Jewish people. [It was] very low-level or what was regarded as low-level cases of nastiness and harassment to begin with, and then escalated.

Clearly he knows absolutely nothing about the rise of the Nazis. He knows nothing about the way Jews were drummed out of every aspect of public life, how their businesses were collapsed or taken, how they were thrown out of all forms of government and education, out of the courts out of every profession.

And how exactly does that compare to Israel with our Arab members of Parliament, our Arab judges (passing sentence over our President if need be), our Arab doctors and nurses and teachers and every other profession? Even our Arabs serving in the very IDF he accuses of carrying out this proto-genocide.

What a Douchebag. If he knows nothing of these things, yet pretends to speak knowledgeably, I can only conclude he hates Jews too much to bother to become educated.

David Ward MP with a Swastika from his own website – Guido Fawkes Blog

Today is Holocaust Memorial day in the UK and elsewhere (we commemorate this on a completely different day here in Israel).

And as regular as a German rail service, along comes another member of the UK’s Liberal Democrat party (remember Jenny Tonge) espousing rabidly Jew-hating views and thinking he’s just bashing “Israeli government policy”. Well he’s not. David Ward MP, who’s constituancy covers Bradford which is basically a Sharia enclave in Britain’s increasingly restive Muslim north, is just keeping his deeply indoctrinated constituents happy.

As I said yesterday on twitter, only someone who hates Jews can believe the lie that Jews are trying to exterminate Arabs (or for that matter anyone else). It really is as simple as that.

Needless to say his party leadership is making signs of being embarrassed but it’s mostly a fig leaf. Polite UK society widely believes that Israel oppresses and mistreats Arabs and does so without any reason. David Ward is just doing us a favour by making that clear again.

Melanie Phillips has a great post on this. I suggest you read all of it for links and more background but here is just the last part where she, yet again, skewers this nonsense.

The really chilling thing is this. Leave aside Ward’s particular offensiveness and idiocies. The insane belief that Israel is trying to wipe out the Palestinians or at the very least that it behaves savagely towards them, subjects them to ‘apartheid’ and ensures through its behaviour that there is no peace in the Middle East is now common currency in British progressive circles. While most would not use the Holocaust analogy and are careful to damn Israelis rather than ‘the Jews’, the entirely false belief that the Israelis have supplanted the indigenous people of Palestine and towards whom they are now behaving in an unconscionable way is now the default position amongst liberals and the left, and has also made serious inroads amongst the more isolationist and ignorant British conservatives.

The belief that, in Israel, the victims of one of the greatest crimes against humanity are themselves now guilty of crimes against humanity is the collective libel that has become the default position amongst the British intelligentsia. And as Ward suggested in his remarks on Sky, only those Jews who themselves endorse this libel by denouncing Israel are to be considered free of this taint. British Jews who support Israel and try to counter these Big Lies are quite simply treated as pariahs by baying mobs whose obsession with Israel has brought about nothing less than a mass derangement in British public debate.

The full, monstrous obscenity of both Ward’s remarks and the widespread British attitude to which he has given voice is no less than this: accusing the people who were the victims of genocide entirely falsely of committing crimes against humanity — simply because they are trying to defend themselves from being wiped out again by those for whom the Holocaust is unfinished business. Self-defence against extermination is now considered a crime against humanity.

David Ward may have been particularly clumsy – but he has merely given voice to Britain’s national sickness and shame.

Turns out that when I clear my history and search on google.co.uk only the second of the first six results relates to our Jew hating, anti-Israel friends. That’s nice.

bds – Google Search on google.co.uk

So BDS is not a particularly highly regarded term even in the UK, one of the hotbeds of this particular strain of modern Jew hatred.

Throughout the medieval and post-medieval periods, January 1 – supposedly the day on which Jesus’ circumcision initiated the reign of Christianity and the death of Judaism – was reserved for anti-Jewish activities: synagogue and book burnings, public tortures, and simple murder.

The Israeli term for New Year’s night celebrations, “Sylvester,” was the name of the “Saint” and Roman Pope who reigned during the Council of Nicaea (325 C.E.).  The year before the Council of Nicaea convened, Sylvester convinced Constantine to prohibit Jews from living in Jerusalem.  At the Council of Nicaea, Sylvester arranged for the passage of a host of viciously anti-Semitic legislation.  All Catholic “Saints” are awarded a day on which Christians celebrate and pay tribute to that Saint’s memory.  December 31 is Saint Sylvester Day – hence celebrations on the night of December 31 are dedicated to Sylvester’s memory.

I’m staying at home with a glass of Glenmorangie.

Aussie Dave adds: I covered this (more or less) 3 years ago. But no harm in a reminder.

So the fact that they didn’t own the domain name palestinesolidaritycampaign.com is rather unfortunate for them.

That site now contians a comprehensive explanation of who the Palestine Solidarity Campaign really are and it’s worth reading.

For better or worse I engaged one of the enemy. After two tweets he blocked and marked me as a spammer. Unfortunately I believe this has happened before. The first time I was able to revive the account on my own. This time I have to open a support case which I’ve done. This may take some days to go through.

If any readers have any inside connections with Twitter, please get in touch. If you value my tweets, perhaps you can open a support case independently at ask where my account has gone.

I’m not going to give the identity of the person who did this as I will wait for the review process.

Let’s be careful out there.

UPDATE 19 Nov 2012 09:13:

I’ve now had two identical response notes back from Twitter’s “Zendesk” system (I’m not feeling the love….). They say I’ve been un-suspended (twice) but more than 8 hours later I’m still suspended. I’ve just sent in my third request. Fans of the late great Douglas Adams might like to look up the verb “throcking” in The Deeper Meaning of Liff.

I have now un-suspended your account. Please note that it may take an hour or so for your follower and following numbers to return to normal.

Be sure to review the Twitter Rules, as repeat violations may result in permanent suspension:

http://twitter.com/rules

Thank you,

Zendesk

UPDATE 19 Nov 2012 15:52:

BrianOfLondon is still incarcerated in digital lock down. Many thanks to anyone who has tweeted on the #FreeBrian hash tag. Remember, I’m not a wapist or a webel or wobber. I’m just a very naughty boy.

Well not only is it happening again this year, but the fact that someone has sprung for advertising on all the buses certainly indicates they want it to be bigger than ever.

So while Israel holds demonstrations for “peace” and for improved social conditions, London holds demonstrations calling for the murder of Jews.

You still proud of London?

Harry’s Place has a call to action if you want to ask for the bus adverts to be taken down. I don’t see the point myself. London has become the centre of “civilised” Jew hatred: better that it’s out in the open and we know where we stand.

First I will bring you up to date on what I discovered on Wednesday. A change to the declaration of the size of Israel. I reported that first here.

I also submitted a third formal complaint which included a list of other countries whose borders are in dispute yet whose pages contain no qualifiers to size. This, of course includes the UK.

Last night I received exactly the same form email brush off from the BBC that they’ve been using since they changed the page in response to the Prime Minister’s first complaint. This form email is the one alleging my complaint was ”generated by online lobby activity”. Whatever that strange alusion to a shadowy Zionist conspiracy of letter writers might indicate.

So this morning I re-submitted a follow up complaint and declared myself unhappy with their answer:

Some time between 25/07 and 29/07 the BBC Sport website page for Israel was changed to further delegitimise Israel. This was after the changes that were made in response to the Prime Minister’s letter.

The Size of Israel (previously just stated as “size 22,072km2″ like all other countries) was qualified with this phrase:

Size
Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics cites (including Jerusalem and Golan) 22,072km²

This is after and separate from the whole Jerusalem / East Jerusalem / Palestine re-write.

No other country, including many which have border disputes, has a qualified size.

I’ve complained officially and still received (over night last night) the form email using the “lobby activity” trope.

More details on my web page including screen shots before and after:

http://www.israellycool.com/2012/07/30/hey-bbc-what-size-are-all-these-countries/

I have also passed this complaint on to the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office (the one in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel).

So sometime after correcting the page to note that Jerusalem was the seat of government (not the capital of Israel) somebody who works for BBC Sport, completely on their own initiative went and edited ONLY Israel’s page to make a political point about the size of Israel.

There is only one reason for doing this: this person hates the existance of a Jewish state and, as I don’t mess about with terms like antisemitism any more, this is Jew hatred. I’m also fairly clear that nearly all modern expressions of “support” for Palestinians are more likely just thinly disguised exhibitions of Jew hatred.

So the person who edited that page, and only the page of the Jewish state, did it out of a hatred for Jews.

And I dare the BBC to tell us who did it and why.

Summary from the start:

The story so far: a week or so before the start of the Olympics, eagle eyed concerned citizens Zionist stooges spotted something odd on the BBC Sport’s website. The site gave a brief fact sheet for every country. One of the salient facts given was the capital city.

Odly enough Israel appeared to have no capital city and a strange and mythical country called “Palestine” had it’s capital in another strange place called “East Jerusalem.

My first post contained the text of a formal complaint I submitted to the BBC: Poisoning minds like Nazis poisoning Jews.

The Prime Minister also chose to complain directly to the BBC’s Jerusalem Bureau chief (is the irony not lost on them?). This led the BBC to climb down and alter the page with the weasel words:

Due to an error which was made at the time the information was added onto the website, incorrect details and mistakes appeared on the Israeli and Palestinian team pages. This has since been rectified in line with BBC policy.

It seems that this was in response to the first set of complaints and specfically those of the Prime Minister.

But what they changed it to wasn’t good enough. I’ll ignore their pointless dreaming about the one day status of the never before existent “East Jerusalem” as a capital for the also mythical country of Palestine. Their designation for Israel now read:

Seat of Government: Jerusalem, though most foreign embassies are in Tel Aviv.

In this post I pointed out the idiocy of this statement especially in light of so many other countries that have split seats of governments. The Prime Minister and I also wrote another formal complaint.

The brush off answer to those secondary complaints contained the following strange phrase: “generated by online lobby activity”. An allusion to a kind of Zionist conspiracy to waste the BBC’s time with something so pointless as trying to get, say, facts straight?

And so we arrive at my discovery of the change to the BBC’s page suddenly inserting the following qualification for the size of Israel:

Now they’re telling us the size of Israel is 22,072 km² (screen cap on the left). What’s the difference? We are now informed that this number is the work of the “Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics” and includes “Jerusalem and Golan”.