Israel Midnight Cafe

British Islamic Website Pursues Explicitly Anti-Semitic Editorial Policy

Its a sign of the times: A major British Muslim website, the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK), which is sponsored by Channel 4 (one of the UK's main terrestrial tv broadcasters) has led off an article with the following title:

Zionists want their pound of flesh!

The article, an incoherent rant attacking British Jews for reacting against Ken Livingstone's Nazi jibe, says:

"Call/visit your local mosque and ask them what they are doing to defend this friend (Ken Livingstone) of Muslims."

The article ends with:

"Don’t let the Zionists get their pound of flesh! MPACUK: Inshallah, Loyal to friends, lethal to adversaries!"

Clearly, the use of this racist imagery, derived from Shakespeare's anti-Semitic depiction of Shylock in the Merchant of Venice, in a political context as an attack on British Jewry constitutes a serious incitement to racial hatred. But MPACUK feels the climate in Britain is sufficiently hostile to Jews to go ahead with it.


The MPACUK Website: Home Of Explicit Anti-Semitic Racism

update: MPACUK seem to have concluded that their anti-Semitic slogans have become too obvious, and have changed their title to: "Zionists out for revenge!" They explain: "MPACUK.org have made a Labour party style gaff. We acknowledge this and have changed the title of the article."

The "Labour party style gaff" is a mocking reference to Labour's use of anti-Semitic campaign posters targetting Jewish members of the Conservative party. There is no clearer evidence that the anti-Jewish posters of Labour and Ken's recent remarks are gaining the electoral support of the British Muslim constituency, as planned.