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British Politician Calls for Sanctions Against Israel

Sir Gerald Kaufman, a leading British Member of Parliment has called for sanctions against Israel, and accused elements in the IDF as being ‘out of control.’ He was speaking on the influential BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ program.

Kaufman has made similar charges before, and has been labelled ‘a self-hating Jew’ by the Board of Deputies of British Jews. None the less, the inevitable backlash is bound to occur, so please write or e-mail your support to:

The Today Program:

today@bbc.co.uk

You can contact Sir Gerald Kauffman at the House of Commons, Westminster.

Here is an extract from an article in the Daily Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/12/nisr12.xmlh

Economic sanctions against Israel should be considered if the country
refuses to put its soldiers before the courts in the UK over the death of
two British peace activists, an MP has said.

Sir Gerald Kaufman, Labour MP for Manchester Gorton, claimed there was an
element in the Israeli military which was “out of control.”