Jewish MP fails to win over Muslim electorate
If your opponent lives 400 miles away, and has no connections in the area then you'd think your seat would be safe. Not only that, if your opponent was a good mate of Saddams you'd think you'd almost be home free!
Not if you were a black Jewish MP who voted in favour of the War on Iraq. Especially, in an electorate where Bangladeshi Muslims make up almost half of the population!
And such proved the case. Despite murmurings that low turn-out would maintain the status quo Oona King has been ousted from her seat at Bethnal-Green.
She's certainly not the Jewish neo-con such a profile might suggest. Oona has compared the Israeli occupation of Palestine to the Holocaust in the past amongst other stereotype-defying things. However even this wasn't enough to halt her demise. Signs that trouble was abrewing in her electorate, over her stance on the war, became apparent when she was egged by Muslim youth during a Holocaust remembrance service
It still amazes me that stuff like this can happen in London. Which, most of the time, is such a cosmopolitan place.
Not if you were a black Jewish MP who voted in favour of the War on Iraq. Especially, in an electorate where Bangladeshi Muslims make up almost half of the population!
And such proved the case. Despite murmurings that low turn-out would maintain the status quo Oona King has been ousted from her seat at Bethnal-Green.
She's certainly not the Jewish neo-con such a profile might suggest. Oona has compared the Israeli occupation of Palestine to the Holocaust in the past amongst other stereotype-defying things. However even this wasn't enough to halt her demise. Signs that trouble was abrewing in her electorate, over her stance on the war, became apparent when she was egged by Muslim youth during a Holocaust remembrance service
It still amazes me that stuff like this can happen in London. Which, most of the time, is such a cosmopolitan place.
posted by Dileepa at 5:53 pm
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