Since neither the liquidation of Mabhouh nor the forgery of  passports is considered illegal in Israel, Britain has no right to conduct criminal investigation here even with the approval of subservient Israeli authorities.

We would like to see the British reaction if Israeli police were to arrive in London to interview the many British citizens who happen to be active Hezbollah members.

The Falklands debacle has not imparted to the British government the good sense to stop calling Judea and Samaria ‘occupied’ territories.

In practical terms, British actions may be commendable and might even set Muslim terrorists against the UK. On the other hand, the ban is a clear violation of free speech rights, and it establishes a dangerous precedent.

Why doesn’t Israel start prosecuting visiting British officials on equally spurious charges of association with terrorist organizations and racial incitement against Jews?

One is left to wonder why religious discrimination is permissible while ethnic discrimination is not. The court had little latitude in deciding the case since, technically, Judaism is indeed an ethnicity because a descendant of Jews is a Jew. As with universal jurisdiction, British laws are biased against Jews.

Since Britain has decided on the Jewish state’s borders, it is only natural that it should also decide who is a Jew.

British courts have issued arrest warrants against Israeli officials numerous times, but the UK government’s reaction has always been muted. This time, however, the warrant was not issued against a general or a right-winger, but Tony Blair’s leftist peace partner.

The British won’t change their law to close the loophole. At most, a state prosecutor would attend court hearings.

Britain was the only major European country to support the Swedish draft that proclaimed Jerusalem the Palestinian capital.

Even if the British government believes that the Jewish state occupies Judea illegally, it urges no similar differentiation for products coming from the world’s many other occupied territories.

Goods from the territories controlled by Fatah and Hamas terrorist groups are not targeted by the boycott.

While Muslims make up only 5% of British population, they grow 10 times faster than Christians.

The English Defense League, a right-wing organization we praised recently, had called on their members to counter-demonstrate. The expected clash pushed police to limit the Muslim demonstration to insignificance.

The League, whose name is unmistakably similar to Rabbi Kahane’s Jewish Defense League, protests the onslaught of alien immigrants. The League is politically-correctly disguised as a group opposed to violent Islam.

Instead of encouraging anti-Islamic feelings by any possible means, Jews side with our Muslim enemies to protest the right-wingers.

While their behavior is offensive, it does not present a clear danger to society, and the proper way of dealing with it is through civil defamation suits.

The group, which is linked to the rising British National Party, planned attacks on Muslim rather than Jewish targets. The crackdown appears to be the establishment’s reaction to BNP’s electoral gains.

Far-right groups worldwide are increasingly turning from anti-Semitic to anti-Muslim attacks. Short of welcoming the patriots outright, Jewish liberals better turn a blind eye to them.

The case was brought by a woman who “converted” to Judaism under the Reform canon, which involves little more than an Allah Akbar declaration. Her child, naturally, was denied admission into an Orthodox school.

The court ruled that the admission criterion was ethnic rather than religious. Then Christian schools are also ethnic, because the pupils are children of Christian parents and made no conscious choice of religion themselves. It is also unclear why religious discrimination is legal while ethnic discrimination is not.

If the House of Lords upholds the appeal court’s decision, the twenty-three-centuriy-old system of Jewish education may fall apart under the onslaught of those who seek free education for their children in private Jewish schools. More likely, Jews will exclude the gentiles implicitly with measures such as private scholarships to Jews only.

Lest you think that the British court is just anti-Semitic, the Israeli High Court ruled years ago that the Jewish National Fund cannot refuse to lease Arabs land bought and developed with private Jewish money.

Bercow has been implicated in tax fraud over real estate sales.

As usual, court Jews are the species most dangerous to Israel.

When the Brits were less liberal, they used to proudly call their state, The Empire on which the sun never sets, including India and America in its boundaries.

A bit earlier, the Spaniards applied the same phrase to their vast empire. Now of course, a Spanish judge prosecutes IDF’s top brass for bombing a terrorist’s home in Gaza.

The STUC has no problem dealing with the Palestinians who launched 8,000 rockets at Sderot civilians, among other targets.

British military exports to Israel are minuscule, so the move is merely symbolic.

Blair, a supposedly impartial Quarter envoy, intervened with Barak on behalf of Adams, whose only purpose in Gaza was meeting Hamas.

And why not? Hezbollah does not threaten England.

Meanwhile, two US senators discussed with Assad the situation in Gaza; Sderot was not on the agenda.

The Brits earlier demanded that the Israeli Tourist Ministry pull down an ad which shows Qumran as part of Israel.

Britain has instituted no similar measures relating to other occupied territories throughout the world. It would be nice to see the UK government demand from Russia that it label fish and caviar canned in the Kuril Islands as “Occupied Japanese Territories.” Seventy years ago, the UK did not label Palestinian citrus exports as coming from the “occupied Mandate Territory.”

Britain is not guided by Palestinian interests, as tens of thousands of Arab laborers stand to lose their jobs if the settlement produce is boycotted. Abbas’ position is instructive: he first supported the boycott, then retracted his support due to economic considerations, and now demands it again—the politics of hatred have trampled rationality.

Anti-Semitism and traditional Orientalism play a role in the British decision, as well as revenge against Jews for taking over the Mandate territory.

In a separate development, the British Embassy canceled its planned move to a Tel Aviv building owned by Africa Israel Group, citing its construction projects in Judea and Samaria. At least the Brits are consistent: they oppose Israeli settlers and support Hezbollah, which seeks to remove them all.

After a Palestinian NGO filed a case in Britain alleging British support of Israel, the Quartet’s Tony Blair visited Gaza for the first time. Speaking to future terrorists at UNRWA school in Beit Hanun, Blair said about them, “These are the people who need to be the focus of all our efforts for peace and progress from now on.” Schoolchildren of Sderot who have spent their entire lives under rocket fire from Gaza are not Blair’s focus.

Britain also pledged $43 million to rebuild Gazan houses. Some math, perhaps? A total of about 3,000 houses were destroyed. First, Iran paid close to $6,000 per house, which is an honest reconstruction cost. Then came the pledge from Saudis. Then from the EU. Then from Britain. Now $3 billion from the donor conference. How many times over the $20 mil damage should be paid?

British International Development Secretary Alexander urged Israel to “do the right thing” and open Gaza’s border for dual-use materials. During the Holocaust, Britain had a different perception of “right things,” and kept the Palestine Mandate borders closed to Jews.

Miller’s family demanded compensation and the British government threatened Israel with a request for the soldier’s extradition. Normal nations just don’t care: Russia has ignored British extradition requests on several occasions. In the Litvinenko case, Russia’s decision sparked a short diplomatic crisis, forgotten a few months after.

Israel paid the dead Jew-hater’s family much more than the government has ever paid to the families of fallen Jewish heroes. Miller’s payment sets a dangerous precedent, which the “human rights” organizations will use to extort more money from Israel.

In reality, the BBC has only refused to air free ads by questionable pro-Palestinian charities.

Israel suffers from anti-Semitic sentiment in Britain, which leads to numerous problems in international organizations, but did not muster the $20 mil a year it would have taken to cover the Standard’s losses and turn the paper into the voice of Israel.

At the same time, many organizations in Britain push for an economic boycott of Israel, who dares defend herself against Arab murderers.

Curiously, Palestinians are fighting the boycott attempts, as the sanctions would deprive tens of thousands of Arabs employed at Jewish factories of lucrative income.