Israel’s president has accused the English of being anti-semitic and claimed that MPs pander to Muslim voters.
Shimon Peres said England was “deeply pro-Arab … and anti-Israeli”, adding: “They always worked against us.”
He added: “There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.”
His remarks, made in an interview on a Jewish website, provoked anger from senior MPs and Jewish leaders who said the 87-year-old president had “got it wrong”.
But other groups backed the former Israeli prime minister and said the number of anti-semitic incidents had risen dramatically in the UK in recent years.
The controversy follows the furore last week over David Cameron’s remark that Gaza was a “prison camp”, as he urged Israel to allow aid and people to move freely in and out of the Palestinian territory.
Mr Peres, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who is three years into his seven-year term as president and was awarded an honorary knighthood by the Queen in 2008, said that England’s attitude towards Jews was Israel’s “next big problem”.
“There are several million Muslim voters, and for many members of parliament, that’s the difference between getting elected and not getting elected,” he said.
“And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment.
“They abstained in the [pro-Zionist] 1947 UN partition resolution … They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s … They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.”
By contrast, relations with Germany, France and Italy were “pretty good”, he added.
He made the comments in an interview with the historian Professor Benny Morris of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev published last week in Tablet, a Jewish news website.
The wide-ranging interview covered Mr Peres’ role as one of Israel’s longest-serving political leaders – an MP for 48 years, twice prime minister, and holder of other ministerial posts over the decades. He is firmly on the Israeli Left.
He was awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 jointly with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat for his part as foreign minister in the peace talks which produced the landmark Oslo Accords.
But following his comments, James Clappison, the Conservative MP for Hertsmere and vice-chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel, said: “Mr Peres has got this wrong.
“There are pro- and anti-Israel views in all European countries. Things are certainly no worse, as far as Israel is concerned, in this country than other European countries.”
The MP added that he could “understand the frustration” that people in Israel felt with “certain elements of the British broadcast media” which present an unbalanced view of Israel.
He said: “I can understand Mr Peres’ concerns, but I don’t recognise what he is saying about England.”
Yet in Israel, Mr Peres is far from alone in holding such views, which have gained a wider following, particularly on the Right, since the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat over accusations that Mossad sent agents using British passports to assassinate a Hamas commander in Dubai.
Aryeh Eldad, a right-wing member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, accused Britain of working against Israeli interests for decades – ever since it “betrayed” its promises to build a Jewish homeland when it governed Palestine under a League of Nations mandate.
“Both governments from the right and the left prefer Arab interests over Israeli interests,” said Mr Eldad, whose father Israel was a leading figure in the Stern Gang, the most radical of the Jewish terror groups that fought British mandatory rule.
“The other layer is an ongoing, subtle form of anti-semitism. It is not as overt as it was in Germany, it is a quiet, polite form.”
Some leading Jewish commentators in Britain disagreed. Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, minister of Maidenhead synagogue and a writer and broadcaster, said: “I am surprised at Peres. It is a sweeping statement that is far too one-sided.
“Britain has supported both Israel and Arab causes at different periods over the last 50 years. There are elements of anti-semitism but it is not endemic to British society.
“The tolerance and pluralism here make Britain one of the best countries in the world in which to live.”
Mr Peres found support, however, from other pro-Israeli groups. Jacob Vince, the director of Christian Friends of Israel, said there was anti-semitism in the UK although many people had a positive view of Israel but were unwilling to express it publicly.
Mr Vince said it was “difficult to see how many MPs would not be influenced by the number of Muslim voters in their constituencies”.
The Government was not treating Arabs as the underdogs but rather was trying to appease them, he said. “The question is how well they understand those with whom they are seeking conciliation.”
Mr Peres is “measured and moderate,” he added.
He said: “His comments have serious connotations and I am sure would not be said lightly.”
One Israeli politician expressed disbelief that the doveish Mr Peres had launched such a broadside against the British.
Benny Begin, a cabinet minister whose father Menachem was prime minister and before that leader of Irgun, the group that killed 91 people in an attack on Jerusalem’s King David Hotel in 1946, said: “Peres? I simply can’t believe he said that.”
The latest figures show that the number of anti-semitic incidents in Britain is rising, according to the Community Security Trust (CST), a charity set up in 1984 to monitor such incidents.
The situation in Britain had worsened “significantly” in the past decade, a spokesman said.
In 2009 there were 924 anti-semitic incidents, the highest figure since CST began keeping records in 1984, and 55 per cent higher than the previous record in 2006.
The figures include reports, accepted only when backed by evidence, of physical assaults, verbal abuse and racist graffiti.
The monthly figure has soared from 10-20 incidents in the 1990s to 40-50 now.
Last year nearly half of the 924 anti-semitic race attacks recorded by the CST showed a political motivation, with 66 per cent of those including some reference to Israel and the Middle East.
A 2009 report by the US-based Anti-Defamation League found one in five Britons admitted Israel influences their opinion of British Jews, and the majority of those said that they felt “worse” about Jews than they used to. It found, however, that Britain was less anti-semitic than other European countries.
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The kike has it wrong
We Brits do not like Ragheads or Jews
Besides which, the jews are responsible for flooding our great nation with these ragheads and coons
Talk about a triple mindfuck lol
Encyclopedia Americana (1985):
“Khazar, an ancient Turkic speaking people who ruled a large and powerful state in the steppes North of the Caucasus Mountains from the 7th century to their demise in the mid 11th century A.D… In the 8th Century it’s political and religious head… as well as the greater part of the Khazar nobility, abandoned paganism and converted to Judaism… (The Khazars are believed to be the ancestors of most Russian and Eastern European Jews).
Encyclopedia Britannica (15th edition):
“Khazars, confederation of Turkic and Iranian tribes that established a major commercial empire in the second half of the 6th century, covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia… In the middle of the 8th century the ruling classes adopted Judaism as their religion.
The Jewish Encyclopedia:
“Khazars, a non-Semitic, Asiatic, Mongolian tribal nation who emigrated into Eastern Europe about the first century, who were converted as an entire nation to Judaism in the seventh century by the expanding Russian nation which absorbed the entire Khazar population, and who account for the presence in Eastern Europe of the great numbers of Yiddish-speaking Jews in Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Galatia, Besserabia and Rumania.
The Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 10, (1971) relates the following about the Khazars (Chazars):
“Khazars, a national group of general Turkic type, independent and sovereign in Eastern Europe between the seventh and tenth centuries A.D. During part of this time the leading Khazars professed Judaism.”
(Encyclopedia Judicia, Vol. 10, (1971)
Academic American Encyclopedia, Deluxe Library Edition, Volume 12, page 66 states:
“The Khazars, a Turkic people, created a commercial and political empire that dominated substantial parts of South Russia during much of the 7th through 10th centuries. during the 8th century the Khazar aristocracy and the Kagan (King) were converted to Judaism.
Collier’ s Encyclopedia, Volume 14, page 65 states:
“Khazars [kaza’rz], a semi-nomadic tribe of Turkish or Tatar origin who first appeared north of the Caucasus in the early part of the third century…in the Eighth Century Khaghan Bulan decided in favor of the Jews and accepted Judaism for himself and for his people.
The Cadillac Modern Encyclopedia, page 822, states:
“Khazars (khah’-zahrz), a S Russian people of Turkic origin, who at the height of their power (during the 8th-10th cent., A.D.) controlled an empire which included Crimea, and extended along the lower Volga, as far E as the Caspian Sea. The Khazar Royal Family and aristocracy converted to Judaism during the reign of King Bulan (768-809 A.D.) and Judaism was thereafter regarded as the State Religion.
The Bible:
Relates that the Khazar (Ashkenaz) Jews were/are the sons of Japheth not Shem:
“Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. The sons of Japheth;…the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz…”
(Genesis 10:1-3)
Therefore, the Bible proves that the Ashkenaz Jews [Khazars] are not the descendants of Shem and cannot be Semite.
Bible,Revelation 2:9,,3:9 JEWS ARE THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN,FAKE,IMPOSTORS.
Of course one should not misunderestimate the power of anti-semitism.
Allow me to tell you a story,it involves one Mr Sharon before he left the world stage and became an enduring mystery.
In conversations it was speculated he may be a secret lemonade drinker,there was a wailing and a gnashing of teeth before anti-semitism was suggested.
Even the ludicrous was deemed such.
I think anything the Goyim can do,say,imagine or think can be deemed anti-semitic.
Maybe it’s a low grade tourets,but surely it would be in hebrew or yiddish if it were involuntary?
The formula seems to have changed since then,it’s now Rumpsfelds neurotoxin as far as i can tell.
You know how it went,our Mr Rothschild had a brainwave whilst riding home from the pub in his Zebra drawn carriage.
Finances were never his strong suit but as long as his buddy Mr Balfour put his name to the scheme someone else would sort all that out.
It was thus that the ‘British’ enticed Jews into Palestine.
If there had been some sort of overview such a thing may never have occured,but you know how it was with the magic purse.
He can recite incantations all he likes but the magic purse is still a cursed artifact.
We see a distinct similarity between the supplied image of Mr Peres and the oil painting of the Warden in the theatrical release of Escape from Alcatraz.
Surely some mistake has been made by the postural advisory committee?
We all see this pomp and ceremony in the press for dead military employees returned as unfit for duty,but i wonder,we never see the Star of David drapped over these coffins.
Not even in the Ghetto they created in Palestine.
On 911 you never saw an Englishman say it would be good for England.
Somehow we all missed out on terrorism and war ushering in an age of unprecedented plenty.
These things don’t just happen by accident,the means include bribery,extortion,terrorism,espionage,treason,brainwashing etc.
The effect,to bring you closer to us.
Few people realize the fact that the jews are behind nonwhite immigration to the white world; Canada , England, France Italy , Germany and most Western Europe have been affected by the jewish backed politicians who allowed nonwhites into their countries. The goal of the jewosh empire is to dilute whites’ vigilenceand awareness in regards to jewish real intention and world domination through money and debt.When will we wake up? Will us sheeple ever wake up?
Lol,you again.
We saw this as an unwelcome insight into the process of contrived narcissism.
DEATH TO JEWS!
England, keep your head up! Tell that KIKE bastard to go fuck himself!
No cold calling,thanks.
I understand the term for that is Brain Fart,origin unknown.
Thanks to the arabs, the british can now be accused of antisemitism.
After many years of careful study we are uniquely unanimous in our description of the Zionist enclave in the occupied states,our study can find no error in the English expression,’They are a bloody menace to society’.
Moving on from this astonishing revelation we thank agent Peres for his lifetimes achievement.
But too late,we already had another just about grasp that it was he and his influence that was a problem.
Disraeli too had to seize power in a foreign country before he too recognised his own shortcomings.
Gotta know your limitations and all that guff.
What can be drawn from the rude awakening of Mr Peres?
An army of vulgar human being seek inroads into Europe.
I think it odd they take part in the Eurovision song contest.
It’s like they have not studied geography,obviously bogus,so really we see they don’t respect national borders.
Failure to respect borders is the behaviour of the illegal immigrant,and is very rude.
It’s an attack,i’ve been right all these years!
Hmmm,Mothra,so cool.
It’s like,’Varan the Unbelievable!’
It’s a good one,i have another.
Like some Dinosaur from the land that time forgot.
It’s like Statler the well known stumblebum shouting abuse from the balcony.
Shakes fist towards Felixstowe in rage at Peres.
Could be we are seeing a bit of a display as Lord Levy of Palestine attempts to muscle in on the turf of Mr Peres.
Like the Yorkist and Lancastrians but with an unusual accent.
Anti-Semitism is a questionable,some may say dubious,term.
Often used,indeed only used,as a rhetorical device by foreigners seeking an ‘In’.
Mr Peres proves himself quite capable of blundering and blurting with the best of them.
You have to wonder what spurred such an outburst.
It’s like our half a prime minister waffled on about,he would empower British Jews.
He made no mention of anyone liking it.
The veracity of the claim is questionable,our CIA case files suggests no agents have been infiltrated into the Golders Green Scene.
And if they had then accounts has no records of pots of paint being bought.
I think i prefered Kennedy describing himself as a bagel.