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Miliband critics a Con job | Jonathan Freedland

published Mon, Nov 09 2009 11:33 GMT
Those who have attacked David Miliband for criticising Michal Kaminski do not represent the Jewish community – they're partisan ToriesJust as there are no MPs who are mere backbenchers – they are instead always "senior backbenchers" – so journalistic convention demands that any member of an ethnic minority who speaks out must immediately be anointed as a "leader".So it is that the Daily Telegraph today tells its readers that "David Miliband, the foreign secretary, has been accused by leaders of the British Jewish community of using antisemitism as a 'political football'."According to the Telegraph, "leading figures in the Jewish community" are mounting a "concerted fightback" against Miliband, so incensed are they by his raising the issue of anti-Jewish sentiment in ...

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