Surprise! A nation mired in Socialism and class warfare produces a political class that is increasingly going back to basics in terms of its views on ethnic relations. Marx himself was a rank anti-Semite and almost all modern leftist ideologies bear the stigmata of anti-Jewry to some extent.
From The Daily Mail:
A high-ranking diplomat at the Foreign Office has been arrested after allegations that he launched a foul-mouthed anti-Semitic tirade.
Middle East expert Rowan Laxton, 47, was watching TV reports of the Israeli attack on Gaza as he used an exercise bike in a gym.
Stunned staff and gym members allegedly heard him shout: ‘F**king Israelis, f**king Jews’. It is alleged he also said Israeli soldiers should be ‘wiped off the face of the earth’.
His rant reportedly continued even after he was approached by other gym users.
After a complaint was made to police, Mr Laxton was arrested for inciting religious hatred through threatening words and behaviour and bailed until late next month.
The maximum penalty for inciting religious hatred is a seven-year prison term or a fine or both.
Mr Laxton, who is still working normally, is head of the South Asia Group at the Foreign Office, on a salary of around £70,000.
He is responsible for all the UK’s diplomacy in that area and for briefing Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who is Jewish.
Mr Laxton has worked extensively in the Middle East – he married a Muslim woman in 2000 – and has been deputy ambassador to Afghanistan.
The case could not have come at a worse time for the Foreign Office. Next week, Britain is hosting an international summit on combating anti-Semitism, with politicians from 35 countries.
Mr Laxton had gone to the London Business School’s gym in Regent’s Park after work on January 27.
An onlooker said: ‘I was in the gym around 9pm and I heard this guy shouting something about “f**king Israelis”.
‘This bald guy was cycling away on his machine in the middle of the exercise room. When another guy approached him he shouted “f**king Jews, f**king Israelis”.
‘The gym was pretty full and everyone looked totally shocked.
I’m sure. Who would have thought Jews in England were maligned and hated by the elite? Europeans who hate Jews? Surely you jest!
I should also point out that Muslim women are not allowed to marry non-Muslims, so either Mrs. Laxton is a liberated woman or the mention of his marriage to a Muslim woman is a politically correct reporter’s way to explain to us why he more vocal about hating Jews than a “proper English gentleman” should be.
How are Jews doing in Europe these days anyway? Not well. And things have not been going well for them for some time.