Ed Miliband Has Questioned Western Foreign Policy – And That's Why the Worst People Hate Him
He's 'the most destructive politician', an ally of 'Israelophobes' – and not even a proper Jew, say high-profile commentators. Why are they foaming at the mouth about the new foreign secretary?
You would think Andy Burnham had appointed a disgraced criminal to high office.
Making Ed Miliband foreign secretary was “the most nauseating political appointment of my lifetime,” declared Stephen Pollard, the former editor of the Jewish Chronicle. Apparently deciding that even this did not sufficiently convey his anguish, Pollard produced an article denouncing Miliband as “the most destructive politician of my lifetime, a man who has had a calamitous impact not just on Britain but globally”.
The Telegraph’s David Blair was scarcely less fevered. “If Ed Miliband possessed an ounce of humility or self-knowledge,” he wrote, “he would have searched his conscience and ruled himself out of becoming foreign secretary.” His colleague Jake Wallis Simons warned that “the sinister, Israelophobic Left stands to benefit” from Miliband’s appointment, describing the new foreign secretary as “banal and lily-livered”. Boris Johnson, the former Conservative prime minister, even suggested that Miliband was partly responsible for Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.
A particular nadir came from the Jewish Chronicle, which published an article under the headline: “So just how Jewish is Ed Miliband?” Once again, a Jewish public figure who dissents from the political demands made of him finds his Jewishness placed on trial.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s administration has shamelessly intervened in British democracy. Senior officials had already briefed that they didn’t want Miliband as chancellor of the Exchequer, declaring that making Miliband chancellor would be a “mistake”; after he became foreign secretary, the White House was reported to be “deeply concerned”. “There’s genuine anger about his appointment,” one presidential source reportedly said.
Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, claimed that Washington had warned Britain that appointing Miliband would be “very injurious to the ‘special relationship’”. Burnham, he spat, “appointed this twit anyway.”
What, exactly, has Miliband done to provoke this foaming rage?
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