UK Liberal Democrat ban the phrase “the Jews”
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The curious case of David Ward’s scalp
Confusion as UK Liberal Democrats issue new instructions on language involving “the Jews”
By Stuart Littlewood
Last week British MP David Ward was left wondering if his scalp would soon be hanging in the Zionists’ tepee.
Ward, if you remember, wrote on his website:
I am saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza.
This caused a great hullabaloo. Karen Pollock of the Holocaust Educational Trust said Ward “deliberately abused the memory of the Holocaust” and his remarks were “sickening”.
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