Clearly unperturbed by reactions to his recent love-in with Israel, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has opted for an encore with this lengthy eulogy that tweaks heart-strings, dampens eyes, and calls out for a string quartet of violin-playing mice.

But as Betty Hunter, Palestine Solidarity Campaign General Secretary said:

Mr. Brown, in his eulogising that:  ‘nothing – no prison cell, no forced migration, no violence, no massacres – could ever break the spirit of a people yearning to be free’, should understand that this equally applies to the Palestinian people.  He conveniently forgot that his description of the suffering of the Jewish people echoes the current oppression by Israel of the Palestinian people.  Mr. Brown is out of step with the majority of the British people, who while having a proud tradition of fighting anti-semitism, are no longer prepared to allow the Israeli government to commit its acts of subjugation and oppression with impunity.

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