Pro-Israel Boris is London Mayor

More friends in high places for the Israel Lobby groups as “last year he [Boris Johnson] opposed a call by the University College Union to boycott Israeli academic institutions.” As for his comments on the UCU they follow a particularly propagandistic lead. The UCU doesn’t have to denounce every single crime of the Israelis Government or Palestinians – the point is to pressure repressive institutions for change. So when the Israeli military occupation interferes with the right of Palestinians to be educated, and no-one else is doing anything about it, its quite right for fellow educators to get involved.

The Palestinians who kidnapped a journalist are not going to release him because the UCU adds to the overwhelming international pressure. Whereas Israel might improve the situation for Palestinians trying to gain an education if the UCU applies pressure where no-one else is. And incase he hadn’t noticed Iran is already being boycotted by the international community – its under brutal sanctions.

London’s new mayor, a pro-Israel Conservative lawmaker, was sworn in Saturday after ousting the left-wing incumbent in a vote that capped the worst local election results for Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s party in four decades.

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But no Conservative victory was more symbolic than the one in London. Johnson becomes the first Conservative to hold a high-profile national post – controlling a budget of billions and charged with planning for the 2012 Olympics – since his party’s thumping 1997 national election defeat by the Labor Party, then led by Blair.

Johnson’s record in support of Israel is clear. He backs a swift solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while understanding Israel’s security dilemmas.