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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: TigerPaw who wrote (24367)5/6/2003 2:02:26 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 25898
 
Guardian UK: "Dalyell steps up attack on Levy"

politics.guardian.co.uk

Dalyell steps up attack on Levy

Michael White, political editor
Tuesday May 6, 2003
The Guardian

The Labour MP Tam Dalyell yesterday scornfully brushed aside accusations of anti-semitism but stood by the allegation that has landed him in political trouble, that "there is far too much Jewish influence in the United States" and one over-influential Jew in Tony Blair's entourage.

Faced with threats to take "inflammatory remarks" to the commission for racial equality, the MP for Linlithgow raised the stakes significantly by criticising Lord Levy, the music mogul turned Blair fundraiser and tennis partner, whose intimate contacts across the region have made him No 10's envoy to the Middle East.

"I believe his influence has been very important on the prime minister and has led to what I see as this awful war and the sack of Baghdad," said Mr Dalyell, who has long been a critic of Israeli expansionism and insists that many Jews are also "desperately unhappy about it'.'

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