Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Ed Miliband, British Labor Party’s first Jewish leader, has some in Israel worried

By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

"The election of Ed Miliband, Tony Blair’s one-time Energy Minister and London School of Economics alumnus, as leader of the British Labor Party, and hence, Leader of the Opposition of Great Britain, over his more pro-Israeli brother, former Blair Foreign Secretary David Miliband, clearly has some Israeli leaders concerned.

Marion Kozak, the Miliband brothers’ mother, is a supporter of Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JJP), which has dispatched an aid ship from Northern Cyprus to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Kozak’s support for the Palestinians cause has sent the Israeli media and leadership into a frenzy over the “left-wing” affiliations of Kozak and her son, Labor’s first Jewish leader. JJP also favors negotiations between Israel and Hamas, as well as the freeing of all Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons...."

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