UK arrests British diplomat for insulting Israel

Rubbish, you talk a lot of.

No need to be facetious. The point was you can't blame an entire people for their government's actions, whether they were voted in or not. There is very rarely 100% of the population voting for a party, and even then they didn't run on one policy of going to war with Gaza, it was forced upon them mid-term by incessant rocket attacks in breach of the ceasefire, and Hamas getting rockets with longer ranges meaning more than 700,000 Israelis were in reach. Enough was enough, Hamas had to be stopped (the rate of rockets has decreased dramatically by the way, indicating some success). Anyone would want to defend their people in the same way.

How would you react if terrorists took over the north of France and started lobbing over 6000 rockets at Dover and Folkestone? The UK govt does not negotiate with terrorists, by the way, so don't expect Israel to. That would be double standards. Good night to you. I hope you don't have to worry about rockets hitting your family tonight, because you would just let them continue for 8 years.

Yelling "******* Jews" is anti-semitism. Even if that action wasn't particularly bad I don't really care for anti-semites, so whatever happens to him is fine by me.

Is yelling "******* chavs!" classist then?

It reports on anything globally that suits their agenda.....

Erm, actually it sounds very much like it is.

Is yelling "******* chavs!" classist then?

Like any other ethnic or religious human rights organization or lobby group then. I suppose the Islamic Human Rights Commission reports on issues that don't suit their agenda...

What are the punishments for shouting it then?

This is a disgusting abuse of human rights. Seven years for honesty and free speech.

Whatever punishments are stipulated in his contract as diplomat with the Foreign Office I would imagine.

I doubt there would be anything in his contract here. Therefore, why the special considering for anti-semitism? I could make a huge banner to a football match and depict Scousers as bin dippers and nothing would be thought of it. Do something similar against Israel and it touches people's nerves. They are both the same in some ways, both are based in hatred.

I doubt there would be anything in his contract here. Therefore, why the special considering for anti-semitism? I could make a huge banner to a football match and depict Scousers as bin dippers and nothing would be thought of it. Do something similar against Israel and it touches people's nerves. They are both the same in some ways, both are based in hatred.

What are the punishments for shouting it then?

7 years is the maximum sentence, not the sentence he's been given. He’s very unlikely to get the full sentence, but regardless, he shouldn’t have been arrested.

He should, however, lose his job. It’s irresponsible to allow people who make comments like that to advise the British government on foreign policy. Quite why he’s still working normally, I don’t know.

Scotland's not a foreign nation. There's nothing special about Israel here. The diplomat's remarks would be just as heinous and shameful to the Foreign Office if he publicly shouted "f*cking Orientals!" upon seeing video of a Chinese conflict.

Who said Scotland?!