‘Jews? Many are just prejudiced’
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Phillips of Sudbury has said that “many” Jews are “deeply prejudiced” although “not lacking in intelligence.”
The peer was speaking as part of at a panel discussion on the Palestine Papers, held on Tuesday night at the University of London.
It was hosted by Middle East Monitor, a lobby group set up by Daud Abdullah, a signatory to the Istanbul Declaration.
In November 2010, Lord Phillips told a Palestine Solidarity Campaign meeting that “America is in the grip of a well organised Jewish lobby.”The peer agreed with fellow panellist, author Kathleen Christison, who said that America had vetoed last week’s UN resolution condemning settlements, because of the work of the “Israel lobby”.
He commented: “The world we are now moving into has been turned upside down. The Jews aren’t lacking in intelligence, they may be deeply prejudiced, many of them, but they are going to be saying the same sort of thing as you on the panel are saying [about the Middle East after the Arab uprisings].”
To cheers from the audience, Ms Christison, who has previously worked as a CIA analyst, said she would like to see the Jewish state dismantled.