I am one of Israel’s biggest supporters (so it seems) on campus, yet I do at times, find Israelis being very defensive in nature and attacking Britain. I’d urge them to remember who liberated many Jews from the concentration campus; what government first stated that Israel should have a homeland in the Middle-East inspite of oppositon from Wilson and the USA; and that many Jews were involved in terror activity against British interests in the Mandate of Palestine.

I strongly support the right of Israel to exist and defend herself. I supported her actions in Lebanon and didn’t think those in Gaza went far enough (in terms of damaging Hamas’ capablity to launch rockets into Israeli territory). However that doesn’t mean you can go shouting of shpiel like you are in post 1.

Incidentally, judging by the rocket attacks on your territory, the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers and suicide bombings in Israel, I think you should worry far more about your own country being “over-run by Islam” than ours.

No doubt my comments will be deemed as ‘anti semitic’ but Im not and I do know what I am talking about. The images of Gaza being overrrun and the lack of the West doing anything merely enhances the threat to us. What would a young Muslim think of the situation if he was watching it on Sky news or the BBC? It merely fuels extremism and the threat of another 7/7 or 9/11.

And saying ‘saving your sorry ass’ is so petty. I dont think our ‘precious England’ will be overrun by Islam. It really pisses me off you have to say stuff like this, and no we will never look to the Jews to save our ‘ass’ as the world doesnt work like that.

I don’t blame them for making such accusations either, at the last UGM there was a very one-sided motion in favour of palestine that was passed, much to my disgust. If you had taken the time to actually read this article, you would have been sympathetic to the fact that the writer had taken the time to visit Israel and interacted with people living through these problems.

The mass media seems to have forgotten about the previous centuries of war and hatred that have gone on, however this article conveys how Israel is not guilty of anything other than defending itself and it remains a nation under threat from foreign forces.

The bottom line is that this is an english university with a very small proportion of students connected to either side through religion, family or otherwise. As such, they should not attempt to interfere with significant political issues like this one.

But seriously though, take a chill pill.