Baroness Deech She was a member of the Jewish Leadership Council until 2010.

She is the daughter of the late historian and journalist, Josef Fraenkel (b. 1903, Ustrzyki Dolne, Poland) who fled Vienna and then Prague from the Nazis. Several other members of her family were murdered in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Her first cousin is Maurice Frankel, Director of the UK Campaign for Freedom of Information.

She is not an inertial observer. Her remarks cited are over a year old. On the other hand, it is a fact that over the last day of so, Israeli F16s have been pounding Gaza - while those in Gaza have scarcely a bow and arrow to defend themselves with. The IDF summarily execute Palestinians including teenagers, manhandle women, and arrest children under 10. Israeli forces kill about 160 Palestinians for every Israeli killed by a Palestinian. Israel continues to annex land, even past its war gains of 1967.

Do you realise that in 1910 around 90% of those living in the land that is now occupied by Israel were non-Jewish?

Finkelstein and Walker are quite right.