Michael Gove has an interesting snippet in The Times:
LISTENING to Any Questions the other
day, I was intrigued to hear one of the panellists refer to a
fascinating website run by the Middle East Media Research Institute
(MEMRI), an organisation that translates news reports and speeches from
the Arab world. MEMRI has provided a valuable insight into developments
in Arab politics and religion, including illuminating translations of
sermons, whose reliability no one has seriously contested.
But on Friday night’s show George Galloway kept interrupting his
fellow-panellist to point out that people working for MEMRI were
Israelis. A section of the audience laughed and applauded, as though
this exposed MEMRI’s work as unworthy of further attention.
There is a word for the belief that you should judge something
more harshly when you discover that it is produced by Jewish people.
It’s simple anti-Semitism. I’m sure George will want to denounce it the
next time he hears it.
Yes, I’m sure Gorgeous George will want to denounce it.
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