UK ‘Conservative’ Demands That His Party Join the Gang-Up on the Jewish State

An English politician, Alan Duncan, MP, has for decades been expressing his spittle-flecked anti-Israel animus. Now he has just been taken to task for his accusations that British politicians – especially Jewish ones — who support Israel are guilty of “dual loyalty.” More on his miching mallecho can be found here.

Sir Alan Duncan is being investigated by the UK Conservative Party after he accused several fellow Tories of acting as agents on behalf of Israel Thursday April 5] on the Leading Britain’s Conversation radio station.

In the LBC interview, Duncan said that member of parliament and then-Secretary of State for International Development Priti Patel should be investigated for a 2017 Israel trip.

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“We still don’t know who paid for her trip, when she came back and tried to change government policy as a result of going on a secret trip without actually telling her officials or even the local ambassador,” he said.

Duncan said that former Conservative Friends of Israel head Lord Stuart Polak should be removed from the House of Lords because “he is exercising the interests of another country.”

“The Conservative Friends of Israel has been doing the bidding of [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, bypassing all proper processes of government to exercise undue influence at the top of government,” said Duncan.

Duncan apparently cannot believe that anyone can support Israel, as it fights Hamas in a war for the Jewish state’s survival, without being an “agent” of the sinister Jewish state. He, of course, is a true-blue Englishman, the purity of whose motives cannot be questioned. Forget about his work in the past for Royal Dutch Shell and various dubious commodity traders, such as the late Marc Rich. Overlook, too, his many years of attacking Israel for what he calls its “land grab” — by which he means the “settlements” in Judea and Samaria (a/k/a the West Bank) that are built on land that was always intended, according the League of Nations’ Mandate for Palestine, to be included in the territory assigned to the future Jewish National Home.

Duncan also called for the party to flush out “extremists” from politics for not condemning Israeli settlements, mentioning Lord Eric Pickles, MP Robert Jenrick, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Michael Gove, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden, MP Suella Braverman, and Security Minister Tom Tugendhat.

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Those who refuse to join in the gang-up on the Jewish state, and are standing by Jerusalem in its moment of maximum peril, according to Duncan are “extremists.” Those who, like Duncan, want to withhold weapons from the UK being sent to Israel, as part of an effort to force an “immediate and permanent ceasefire” in Gaza, thereby allowing the terror group Hamas to proclaim that because it is still standing it has “won the war with the Zionist entity,” are the judicious upholders of international law.

“How can you have a security minister in the British government who does not believe in international law?” the former minister asked. “I think he [Tugendhat] should be sacked.”

When Allen Duncan describes Israeli settlements as violations of international law, he is ignoring the fact that these settlements are built on land seized by Jordan in the 1948 war, and then retaken by Israel in the Six-Day War, land which had always been intended by the League of Nations to be included in the Mandate for Palestine’s territory, which was to become the future Jewish state. Alan Duncan, however, insists that that same territory in Judea and Samaria is “occupied land,” to which Israel has no legitimate claim. He is hoping you won’t find out about the Mandate for Palestine.

The situation had improved since the recent removal of Jenrick and Braverman from cabinet positions, said Duncan, but he noted that Braverman “is still supporting Israel and the bombing and the annihilation of people in Gaza.”…

The “annhilation of the people in Gaza”? How can Duncan say this with a straight face, when the IDF has made colossal efforts to minimize civilian casualties, by dropping thousands of leaflets, sending millions of text messages and millions more of recorded phone messages, all in order to warn Gazan civlians to leave areas, and buildings, about to be targeted? Does he not know about the thousands of airstrikes that Israeli pilots have called off at the last minute because they detected the presence of too many civilians at or near the target area?