Dear Iain, I would encourage you to listen back to the clip before continuing to misrepresent it. It was a year ago, so perhaps you should be forgiven.
I certainly didn’t insult anyone, unless you consider the truth to be insulting? It is possible that Michael Mansfield shares such a belief - it is he who rudely left a conversation on the radio, seemingly unable to stomach being corrected on the law.
I don’t tend to engage on X, because it is not the best use of time, but I make an exception here, in light of David’s valiant efforts and since it is a medium in which you can’t cut me off - it seems like a good opportunity to set the record straight.
Your earlier guest had misled your audience when he claimed that Israel was losing its democracy. Despite the passage of time since our conversation, you can see that Israel is still a thriving democracy and is preparing itself for yet another democratic election. The only real democracy in the Middle East. True, not a high bar, but Israel's democratic practises can also put many European countries to shame. It is a pity that you did not allow me the time during the program to explain this.
As we progressed in the conversation, you gave an example which was wholly inappropriate: you suggested that you might be barred from entering due to having criticised Israel. I said that misrepresented what these two MPs had done, and you cut me off. Had you not done so, I would have told you that your example flies in the face of the fact that Israel has free press and free speech. It is a place where everybody can - and many do - criticise Israel, its Government, its Prime Minister or any other body or person. All you would have to do is turn on Israeli TV (with subtitles?) and this would be evident to you.
What was even more egregious, however, was the suggestion that the falsehoods these MPs had told immigration officials, and their campaign for BDS - a vehicle for incitement and the attempted destruction of Israel - is somehow comparable with “criticism”. Immigration turned these politicians away under a framework parallel to the one we deploy in the UK.
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This picture is not from October 7, 2023.
This picture is from today, July 24, 2026.
A Muslim Palestinian sheikh from Samaria murdering two Jews.
Believing you can make peace with these savages is utter madness.
This is Ramallah police station. The image captures the moment after a Palestinian mob lynched two Jews, and mutilated their bodies. Aziz Salha proudly shows his blood stained hands.
Ramallah is the city the Greens want to twin Manchester with.
An excellent, thorough and damning analysis by @MelanieLatest - The decision by the Church of England to go full bore Anti-Semitism (by its own definition) is as outrageous as it is scary for Jews (& Christians) in the UK.
The @ArchbishopSarah has made a massive error here. I hope she reads this article reflects on her actions. But I doubt that she will since she seems completely ideologically captured.
I am not trying to save Israel.
Israel is strong enough to look after itself.
I am fighting for the future and soul of Great Britain.
One by one our institutions are caving.
The island is sinking.
British Jews are already fleeing.
The fight is here - not in the MIddle East.
Ann Widdecombe is a high profile member of an insurgent right wing party
Her last interview she talked about the establishment that pull the strings behind politics
The next day she is brutally murdered in her remote home
Yet they’ll look you in the eye and say random attack
This is Heather Herbert, the face of the “Hatful Left”.
A rising start for both Labour and the Scottish Greens, the poster “girl” for Hope not Hate.
Heather tweeted about the murder of
Ann Widdecombe,
“ I hope her death was extremely painful”
This is the real face of the Labour Party and the Green Party. A vote for them is a vote for Heather. Pure evil!
#AnnWiddecombe
#Reform #Labour
You just massively fucked up.
You just revealed the sectarian ideology your government will be beholden to.
You just revealed your compromised moral compass.
You just revealed your geopolitical naivety.
You just revealed how you’re trapped in a bubble, and which toxic bubble it is.
You just revealed how disconnected you are to the majority of this country who may not be that bothered about Israel, but are absolutely sick of the Islamists and far-left useful idiots you’re trying to appease.
You just wasted an opportunity to show yourself to be a person of integrity above party politics who would do what’s right because it’s right.
You just massively fucked up.