Though Cowards Flinch

It’s nice to know that, on  Comment is Free, having no partisan allegiance doesn’t stop one writing articles as though one were the most reactionary of Tories. I cannot help but think this recent article by ‘historian’ Geoffrey Alderman demonstrates exactly the extent to which he could be a closet Tory.

(Edit: According to Mr Alderman himself, in his comment below, he is not a Conservative, capital ‘c.’ I think his article shows that at the least he is a conservative, lowercase ‘c.’ I have, with this in mind, re-written the original introductory paragraph of this article).

Alderman denounces Ken as being anti-Jewish, meanwhile adducing examples which largely demonstrate Ken as attacking the state of Israel. Isn’t it wonderful how those two things are easily conflated?

All this comes barely a month after David Cameron attacked Ken as being anti-Jewish, as reported on Conservative Home.

Don’t get me wrong, Ken has some bizarre opinions and seems as changeable as the wind. I disagree with a lot of what Ken has said, for example, about Irish republicanism – something not restricted to Ken.

No doubt, as with Ken’s flirtation with the odd mad mullah, this was related to the power of certain ethnic communities within London – the Irish and the Muslims to name but two. Seriously, Ken should actually develop a principle or two.

None of this excuses the unforgivable attacks of this chap Alderman, with his rather blunt digs against Livingstone, not to mention his rather crude self-publicising references to his book on Jews in London politics.

In defence of Ken, he’s not Boris Johnson. If Jews were to have any corporate sense of how to vote, I doubt one of history’s most oppressed peoples are going to vote for the old Etonian kick-the-poor shitbag.

Ken even manages to hold Hanukkah festivals at city hall, ever since 2005.

Granted, most people take CiF articles with the proverbial pinch of salt, even still, for bile-filled vituperation, this article must take the biscuit.