EXCLUSIVE: David Ward MP says, “Israel… should never have been created”
David Ward MP, the Liberal Democrat member of parliament who was recently suspended from the party following his grossly anti-Semitic comments, has come out with yet another diabolical statement about the State of Israel during an event in the House of Commons last night.
Blogger Richard Millett reports that Ward, who appeared on a panel alongside the disgraced Baroness Jenny Tonge, moaned about his suspension from the Liberal Democrat party after his anti-Semitic comments on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day. At the time, Ward described the situation in the West Bank and Gaza a result of “the Jews” – a classic anti-Semitic trope blaming the entire race of people for the situation caused by an ongoing conflict between Israel and those claiming to act on behalf of the Palestinian people.
He was suspended after the affair, and his rhetoric since has been less that cautious on the matter. But last night Ward bemoaned his party again, stating, “Actually I never said that Israel shouldn’t exist but that it should never have been created.” His criticisms reportedly lay with the fact that he sees a difference between calling for the end of the Jewish State, and stating that it should never have been brought to existence in the first place.
The matter will be taken as yet another serious incident by Jewish groups who will no doubt see the creation of the State of Israel as a response to the atrocities of the Holocaust, and indeed as a historical right over the ancient land of Israel. Ward’s contention that Israel should never have been created is to both deny the historical relevance of the region to the Jewish people, and to ignore the atrocities of the Holocaust and the desperate need for a Jewish state that resulted from it.
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