The story is simple: Two British MPs, Yuan Yang and Amtisam Mohamed, both virulently anti-Israel and supporters of the BDS movement, flew to the Jewish state, where they were denied entry and swiftly deported. The Israeli government gave as its reason for not admitting the two is that they had a long history of maligning the Jewish state, and had come to Israel in order to collect information on the security services and to spread anti-Israel propaganda. Israel, like every other nation in the world, decides who can enter its country, but of course, many would deny Israel the rights allowed to all other countries. A huge row followed, with the British government denouncing Israel’s refusal to admit the two MPs.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy, a close friend of the “Muslims-first” mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and a man who has frequently claimed as his “hero” Ernest Bevin, the famously antisemitic foreign secretary in the post-1945 Labour government, who opposed the creation of the Jewish state, was furious with the MPs being barred from entry. He insisted that “it is unacceptable, counterproductive, and deeply concerning that two British MPs on a parliamentary delegation to Israel have been detained and refused entry by the Israeli authorities. I have made clear to my counterparts in the Israeli government that this is no way to treat British Parliamentarians, and we have been in contact with both MPs tonight to offer our support.”
The two MPs were not part of a “parliamentary delegation,” but were on a sinister frolic and detour of their own. Lammy, as foreign secretary, ought to have known the long anti-Israeli history of those two MPs, including their support of BDS, and what they were planning to do to weaken the Jewish state. And does Lammy think that British MPs should be accorded special rights by foreign countries? The policy of Israel is crystal clear: no one need be granted entry who endangers the security of the state. Lammy thinks that rule should apply to others, but not to British MPs. He’s wrong.
The Israelis kept them out, as they would keep out Kanye West, or Roger Waters, or Francesca Albanese, or the reporters working for the pro-Hamas Al Jazeera. Other countries have their own criteria for whom entry is denied. How many thousands of people are refused admission to the UK because of their political views? Here’s the name of one you may be familiar with: Robert Spencer.
“Agitators and Double Standards,”
Would UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer have Benjamin Netanyahu arrested at the airport in London? It feels like forever since this was an active question, but it hasn’t even been half a year since the International Criminal Court issued its warrant for the Israeli prime minister. At the time, Starmer stammered when asked the question; he seemed to indicate that he would support Bibi’s arrest but then muddied the waters a bit and left everyone unsure.
It is an absurd proposition: The ICC has no jurisdiction over Israel and, quite aside from the kangaroo court’s corruption and the illegitimate arguments made in favor of jailing Netanyahu, the warrant is therefore irrelevant. It is a make-pretend warrant.
But it’s worth revisiting this controversy. “The UK will always comply with its legal obligations as set out by domestic law and indeed international law,” Starmer’s spokesman said at the time. Rules are rules, after all, and they apply to everyone, even the prime minister. Right?
And yet, one can’t help but wonder. Over the weekend, as I wrote yesterday, two Labour Party MPs were refused entry to Israel. They claimed to be on a parliamentary delegation but were not. And they had advocated in the past for boycotting or otherwise sanctioning Israel, which is grounds to be denied entry.
Starmer threw a fit: “this is no way to treat British parliamentarians.” Foreign Secretary David Lammy compared Israel to China. Another Labour MP accused Israel of acting out of racism….
These two British MPs were not treated any differently from how others have been treated. Starmer seems to think that they should be given special privileges, and not be subject to the same criteria that are applied by the Israeli government to all others trying to enter the country.
The Telegraph then asked Starmer’s office…whether there is a “two-tier” system in which, say, MPs can disregard the rules by which everyone else must live.
Starmer’s spokesman responded: “The Foreign Office advice obviously applies to everyone. But as the Foreign Secretary said yesterday, our position is very clear. We think it is counterproductive for British MPs on a parliamentary delegation to be detained and refused entry.”…
These two MPs were not “on a parliamentary delegation” to Israel. They went with their own agenda, having nothing to do with any “parliamentary delegation.” They wanted to go to Israel to gather material to be used later in propaganda against the Jewish state.
The outrage expressed by both Starmer and Lammy at Israel for blocking entry to two virulently anti-Israel MPs has demonstrated how deep the anti-Israel animus runs in the Labour government. And it won’t change. The only growth in the UK’s population comes from the migrants, mostly Muslim, who continue to flow into the country; the fertility rate of the indigenous British has sunk below the replacement level of 2.1 children. More Muslims, more Muslim voters. And more pandering to the Muslim vote. Right now, the UK government has been floundering, with a sinking economy, and the continuing massive influx of Muslim economic migrants that cost the government billions of dollars annually, at a time when the UK has just committed itself to increasing spending on defense by hundreds of billions over the next decade.
But the Labour government doesn’t want the public to focus on such things. It wants to direct attention, rather, on what it wants us to believe is most important: Israel’s refusal to let in two MPs whose sole purpose in coming to Israel was to gather material with which to malign the Jewish state.
Billy says
The Leftists ally with terroristic Islam’s Muslims against Britain, Israel, and Non-Muslims to help Leftists gain ultimate power and control. However, Islam’s believers have their own totalitarian goals as taught in Islam’s Quran(Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
Islam, a Terrorist-Criminal Enterprise, and its predatory believers continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, supremacy, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran, and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes Terrorist Criminal Organizations with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15 and more).
Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the Legal Right and the Quranic Duty to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a Crime against Allah. Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION(Quran 3:151; 9:5,29,111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-destructive way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:65,89,95; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49,73,88,111,123; 21:92; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
SKA says
“The UK will always comply with its legal obligations as set out by domestic law and indeed international law,” – as they did when the UK put Chilean Ambassador Augustino Pinochet WHO HAD PILOMATIV IMMUNITY under house arrest pending an extradition demand by the rabidly insane Spanish magistrate Baltazar Garzon seeking to try him on charges relating to the deaths of two Spaniard Communists killed in Chile following the Sept. 1973 coup d’etat against the Madman Allende?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Both Starmer and Lammy ought to come to terms w/ the fact that the era when Britain ruled the world has come & gone. All conservatives – Tory or others – have come to terms w/ that and don’t expect other countries to follow their globalist lead. So should Labour!
tgusa says
“British MPs, Yuan Yang and Amtisam Mohamed”
What in the wide wide world of sports?
Billy Corr says
A FACTOR EASILY OVERLOOKED:
Yemen-born Amtisam Mohamed has a rock-solid majority is her Sheffield Central constituency but almost certainly has a loyalty-of-blood and loyalty-of-confessional-identity with Palestinians and the Ummah of Believers.
However, the very lovely and super-smart* China-born Yuan Yang has a majority of fewer than a thousand voters in her very marginal Earley and Woodley constituency and needs to pander to her Muslim constituents. In any case, appearing to have been ill-used by the Israelis will stand her in good stead with many ordinary voters or – at the least – it will do her no harm.
* Brought to England as a young child, she excelled at school and scored a First from Balliol College, Oxford, before becoming a highly-regarded bilingual journalist for world-class financial publications.
James Lincoln says
Perhaps Israel should have admitted Starmer and Lammy – and immediately dropped them off in Gaza without a return ride…
tgusa says
They came from China and Yemen. What a wonderful addition to traditional British culture. Is something isn’t done that island is going to resemble the Star Wars bar scene.
tgusa says
I shouldn’t complain because Washington DC is looking pretty much the same. Foreign occupied territory.
OLD GUY says
And those that aren’t foreign are lawyers selling America to the highest bidder on behalf of their political clients.
England Invaded says
A country controlling it’s border from undesirables must be shocking for these two and their friends.
somehistory says
Not today; not tomorrow; not ever.
Israel has been fighting to get rid of the mozlum terrorists.
What fools they would be had they allowed these two….and their aides….into their tiny nation.
It would be absolutely insane and dangerous, while fighting the vermin for their very lives and future, to allow the same kind of vermin to come in freely to gather information about how the Israelis are maneuvering, and to pretend they have found to be what hamas has said to be the case.
They would have *reported* back on their *findings*…..which would have been in line with their cohorts…hamas terrorists.
If you want to kill a mound of fire ants, you don’t “save the queen.”
Lady of the Lake says
To say this is absolutely disgusting is putting it mildly. I guess the MPs were mistaken….thinking they were on a parliamentary delegation because it was no doubt funded by the British taxpayers. And further, don’t think for one second that the Bobbies would not arrest Netanyahu at the gateif he came to the UK.
If only israel would take a heavy stance and bar all peoples from counties who were signatory to the world court order against Netanyahu.
Old_Fart says
The British have been ANTISEMITIC for centuries.
Anyone who doubts it can just look back to the end of WWII when they moved in as a “UN Peacekeeping force” and allowed the arabs to arm themselves, to keep land they had stolen from Jews, and disarmed the Israelis.
In 1918, T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia, a real person) wrote a paper and maps proposing the rightful return of property to the Israelis. In that there was no “Palestine” or Gaza or any of that crap and all of modern day Israel plus more of the original Kingdom of Israel would be returned to the Israelis, the rightful owners. Lawrence’s untimely death after his return to England, the British totally ignored the work of T.E. Lawrence purely because of their Antisemitism. If I were Israel, I wouldn’t trust the UK or any of its MPs or other politicians further than I can throw an elephant.
Eddie says
Well neither of these so called Members of Parliament are British even by today’s modern misrepresentation of that term
So thank you Israel. As an Englishman I am not affronted by your refusal to entertain our shameful ‘representatives’
The greatest shame is that a country such as ours should have voted for them in the first instance but then we give the vote to any Tom Dick or Abdul who turns up here.
Great Britain is controlled by foreigners and the decline in our society is plain to see.
Diversity is not our strength it has been our downfall.
How do I know that ? Because my life spans the time when my country was English and what it has become today.
jerry glenn says
UK surges in the international Islamopandering derby.
Alkflaeda says
Dear, dear, people will start to think that there is no point in braving hell and high water crossing the Channel in a dinghy, if, when you arrive at your destination and get yourself elected as a pro-Palestinian independent MP, you can’t get into Israel whenever you want.