"Both Steve and Dave acknowledged the truth of it"

Did I now? I don't remember. Chapter and verse, please.

Jim, you could also have mentioned John Mann's deliberate staging of his confected public spat with Ken Livingstone and Ruth Smeeth's histrionics and fake tears at the launch of the Chakrabarti report. These are precisely the kinds of dishonest opportunists who would immediately leap on Gerald Kaufman's every word. He wasn't always "careful" about what he said (why should he have been?) but he was brutally and fearlessly truthful about the mistreatment of Palestinians by the Israeli regime. What a pity for the "there's-an-antisemite-under-every-bed" brigade that he was a Jew! He certainly had the Board of Deputies spluttering when they pronounced him "a self-hating Jew," which he was anything but. Still, it was nice to waste bobad's time by getting him to produce his litany of arrant nonsense. 😂