Israel/Palestine

Naz Shah is not from the Middle East. She was born in Bradford, and has family Pakistani connections.

Ken Livingstone who was the most prominent, serious and persistent offender, is from a white British family, who has lived here for generations, probably forever. Ditto for other offenders: David Ward (Lib Dem, with a pattern of anti-Semitic/ extreme anti-Israel remarks); Aidan Burley (Tory, who got into trouble in France over a Nazi-themed stag party); most UKIP members, of whom half would not vote for a Jewish politician - etc.

Your comment makes my blood boil, just as the politicians' anti-Semitic comments did. As a descendant of Jewish refugees, and just as a human being, using refugees as scapegoats for the behaviour of British politicians disgusts me, if I'm to be honest. You know who put the strongest pitch this week for us to accept Syrian refugee children? Alf Dubs, a Jewish Labour member of the House of Lords. You know what contributed to his pitch? That he was himself a child refugee, who came on the Kindertransport and thus had his life saved. Unfortunately, the Tory-dominated parliament voted narrowly against him, but the House of Lords supported him, and it's still being considered.