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2003-05-06 11:02 | User Profile
This appeared in the 6 May 2003 issue of the [url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,950116,00.html]Guardian[/url]
Walter
Veteran MP rejects accusations that he is anti-semitic and renews criticism of Jewish adviser to No 10
Michael White, political editor Tuesday May 6, 2003 The Guardian
The Labour MP Tam Dalyell yesterday scornfully brushed aside accusations of anti-semitism but stood by the allegation that has landed him in political trouble, that "there is far too much Jewish influence in the United States" and one over-influential Jew in Tony Blair's entourage.
Faced with threats to take "inflammatory remarks" to the commission for racial equality, the MP for Linlithgow raised the stakes significantly by criticising Lord Levy, the music mogul turned Blair fundraiser and tennis partner, whose in timate contacts across the region have made him No 10's envoy to the Middle East.
"I believe his influence has been very important on the prime minister and has led to what I see as this awful war and the sack of Baghdad," said Mr Dalyell, who has long been a critic of Israeli expansionism and insists that many Jews are also "desperately unhappy about it'.'
The father of the Commons, an MP for 41 years and a pillar of the "awkward squad" for most of them, Mr Dalyell qualified his criticisms only to the extent of saying he was not attacking Jewish influence as such, but what he called the "Sharon-Likudnik agenda" of the hardliners - led by Ariel Sharon's Likud party - who dominate Israeli politics.
After Mr Dalyell was indirectly reported by Vanity Fair magazine as criticising "a cabal of Jewish advisers" driving US-UK policy towards Iraq - and now Syria - there were protests, and Professor Eric Moonman, a Labour MP 20 years ago, started legal consultations over a complaint to the CRE.
But Mr Dalyell may be the MP least likely to buckle to pressure. Questioned on Radio 4's World at One, he said: "The cabal I referred to was American," and named seven hawk ish advisers to President George Bush - six of them Jewish - as urging a strike against Syria.
"It's the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs combined with neo-Christian fundamentalists. I think a lot of it is Likudnik, Mr Sharon's agenda, and when it comes to an attack on Syria this is a very serious matter."
Pressed further, the MP conceded he had "picked out one person [in Britain] about whom I am extremely concerned and I have to be blunt about it. That is Lord Levy, Mr Blair's official representative in the Middle East. This has two questions: first, should not this be done by the Foreign Office; second, are special representatives to be accountable or not?"
Downing Street has often been forced to defend Lord Levy, both over aggressive fundraising and as an envoy - welcome in Arab capitals, including Damascus, as well as Tel Aviv - who cannot be questioned by MPs.
Mr Dalyell's career includes a close alliance with the late Richard Crossman, a passionate Zionist who believed that all gentiles - including himself - are anti-semitic at some level. The claim won him the friendship of Chaim Weizman, a president of Israel.
Prof Moonman, president of the Zionist Federation, said: "I do not believe Tam is anti-semitic," but said his "old friend" had used language which could support that view.
Whatever the extent of Lord Levy's influence, Mr Dalyell and his detractors yesterday appeared to make no acknowledgement of the defence lodged by Mr Blair's allies.
They constantly point out that No 10 has helped persuade the White House to promote the latest "road map" version of the Middle East peace plan in the teeth of Israeli opposition.
2003-05-06 19:57 | User Profile
This earlier article seems to have focused less on what Dalyell said than the reactions to his statements. This is the real story. Just like Trent Lott's words were ignored for the squabble over "racism," it looks like Dalyell is getting set up for this year's Lord Haw Haw award.
Brit MP Dalyell May Face 'Race Hatred' Inquiry
By Nicholas Watt
Political Correspondent The Guardian - UK 5-5-3
[url=http://www.rense.com/general37/mp.htm]http://www.rense.com/general37/mp.htm[/url]
Tam Dalyell, the veteran Labour MP and opponent of countless wars, faces an investigation for inciting racial hatred after he accused Tony Blair of being unduly influenced by Jewish ministers and officials.
As leading British Jews criticised Mr Dalyell for his "misguided" remarks, a former Labour MP said he would refer the father of the Commons to the commission for racial equality.
Professor Eric Moonman, president of the Zionist Federation, who was a Labour MP from 1966 to 1979, said he was seeking advice on whether there was a case for referral. "I believe there is," he said.
"I will be distressed to do it because of a relationship with a man I admire enormously," Prof Moonman said. "But he made the statements and he knew what he was doing."
The row started when Mr Dalyell, who for 20 years has opposed every war involving British soldiers, told Vanity Fair magazine that Mr Blair relied too much on Jewish figures in Britain and the US. Mr Dalyell named the former cabinet minister Peter Mandelson, the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, and the prime minister's Middle East envoy, Lord Levy. Only Lord Levy is Jewish. Mr Mandelson's father was Jewish and Mr Straw had a Jewish grandfather.
Mr Dalyell said: "I am worried about my country being led up the garden path on a Likudnik, [Ariel] Sharon agenda", adding that "Straw, Mandelson and co" were leading "a tremendous drive to sort out the Middle East".
Mr Dalyell's critics took exception after it was claimed that he felt Mr Blair was influenced by a "cabal" of Jewish advisers. But Mr Dalyell said he used the word cabal only in reference to the Bush administration, not Downing Street.
"The cabal that I referred to was in the US," he said. "That is the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. I was thinking of [Paul] Wolfowitz, [deputy defence secretary], [Richard] Perle, [John] Bolton, assistant secretary of state, [Douglas] Feith, [Ken] Adelman, [Elliott] Abrams and [Ari] Fleischer, [Mr Bush's press secretary.] Those people drive this policy."
But Jewish figures were furious. David Garfinkel, the editor in chief of the London Jewish News, said: "Coming a few days after the BNP won council seats in the north of England this is the kind of menacing candour which the country certainly does not need."
Ministers were also aghast. One said: "Quite apart from how offensive his remarks are, Tam is wrong. Tony and Jack have faced strong criticism in Israel because of their pressure for the road map to be published."
Mr Dalyell denied he was anti-semitic. "If I were anti-semitic I would not have spent a holiday in Israel, I would not have gone as a young man to stay on a kibbutz. To say I am anti-semitic is preposterous."
He also said he had been parliamentary private secretary to former cabinet minister Dick Crossman, who was something of a hero in Israel. Crossman became close to Chaim Weizman, who was Israel's first president. "Would Dick Crossman have had an anti-semitic gentile as his PPS? I identify with the Weizman tradition. This is not about being anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic or anti-Israeli."
2003-05-07 00:28 | User Profile
I was in London this weekend. This was reported in the Telegraph on Saturday. I could not believe it. Let's hope Dalyell sticks to his guns.
2003-05-07 01:24 | User Profile
Originally posted by mwdallas@May 7 2003, 00:28 I was in London this weekend. This was reported in the Telegraph on Saturday. I could not believe it. Let's hope Dalyell sticks to his guns.
This will be an excellent test case if Dalyell does stick to his guns. Every single time a politician has a Semitically incorrect "accident" he always bows and scrapes at Hymie's feet reinforcing the idea that Hymie can never be opposed. Hymie then crucifies him anyway to validate in the eyes of the masses that he was a "bad man" and a "hater".
If he does stick to his guns, we're in uncharted territory. :th:
2003-05-07 16:08 | User Profile
**"I will be distressed to do it because of a relationship with a man I admire enormously," Prof Moonman said. **
"I'll be so distressed the ink on my Holocaust reparations lawsuit might get smudged from all these crocodile tears. I'd better ask for more money for all this pain and suffering!"
2003-05-07 18:50 | User Profile
As of this posting, he is sticking to his guns. Check VNN for a link confirming this. No Moran, he.
2003-05-08 09:12 | User Profile
Dalyell seems like a tough, crusty old bird, the sort who who'll dig in his heels when pushed by arrogant hebrew thugs. If so, good. That's just the sort of White man needed to give the lousy jews their comeuppance. Their power rests on their ability to intimidate the opposition into silence or, failing that, to pile on until they cave in with a weeping apology a la Lott & Moran. If someone stands up to the scum and emerges unbowed & triumphant, others will see that the much-feared power of the jew is based on nothing more than smoke & mirrors. Perhaps they too will be emboldened to speak the truth that's in their hearts.
And when that happens, the game is up for Mr. Lipschitz.
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2003-05-08 10:56 | User Profile
Any way we could send him an encouraging word?
Walter
2003-05-08 13:04 | User Profile
Originally posted by Walter Yannis@May 8 2003, 04:56 **Any way we could send him an encouraging word?
Walter**
Dunno Walter. The man appears to be a bit of a Luddite as he has neither an email address nor a website according to the [url=http://www.parliament.uk/directories/hciolists/alms.cfm]House of Commons listing[/url].
Snail mail to 'Tam Dalyell MP, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA, UK' should reach him.