He's a yid!

Further to my post on Jeremy Bowen below, Oliver Kamm has a typically eruditte post on this particularly stupid remark by Paul Reynolds:

David Miliband's Jewish background will be noted particularly in the Middle East.

Israel will welcome this - but equally it allows him the freedom to criticise Israel, as he has done, without being accused of anti-Semitism.

I urge you to read the 1800 words in which Oliver demonstrates that "David Miliband's antecedents give us no clue whatsoever to his stance as Foreign Secretary".

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