Paul Flynn

Paul Flynn’s comments last month were misguided, but the main perpetrators of anti-Semitic ideas about “Jewish loyalty” are the Zionist movement and Israel. BICOM’s chief executive took part in a panel at a Zionist conference in November whose title reflected exactly the same idea.

Controversy has broken out in the UK over alleged anti-Semitic comments made by Labour MP Paul Flynn about the British Ambassador in Tel Aviv.

According to The Jewish Chronicle (a publication whose record demonstrates that its accuracy can never been taken for granted) Flynn questioned whether Gould could be properly loyal to the UK because he is Jewish and has declared himself a Zionist: