London (CNN)-- The French comedian at the center of the controversy over the "quenelle" gesture has been banned from entering Britain, UK authorities said Monday.
Dieudonne M'bala M'bala has been widely associated with the gesture -- which involves pointing the right arm straight down and touching that arm with the left hand -- that many believe is a Nazi salute in reverse.
Labour’s Member of Parliament for Easington in the north of England has provoked outrage today after insinuating that the Israeli flag in some way had a link to Nazism.
Grahame Morris, who was elected to the northern seat in 2010, has been tweeting aggressively anti-Israel statements for a while now, and today appeared to jump the shark from baseless criticism into overt anti-Semitism. “Nazis in my village,” he tweeted, “do you see that flag they fly[?]” implying some link between the two.
The British government tried to cover its tracks. But a new cache of documents Robert Spencer and I have received in our battle to overturn our being banned from Britain reveal that a chief reason why we were banned from the country was because we strongly support Israel. As part of our lawsuit against the Queen of England and the Home Secretary et al, we have received numerous documents between the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Office of Security and Counterterrorism, and the Home Secretary. In one of them, an official in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office whose name was redacted wrote this letter on May 7 to a recipient whose name was also redacted:
Evidently too stupid to learn from previous mistakes, Liberal Democrat MP David Ward, fresh back from his suspension by his own party for fanatical anti-Israel comments, is doubling down in an interview with a depraved website which accuses Israeli soldiers of being "mercenaries" and child killers.
Clearly not taking the chastisement from his own Liberal Democrats seriously, speaking to an interviewer from the website MiddleEastMonitor.com that was published this week, Ward now suggests Israel should never have been created and that a pro-Israel Jewish Lobby dominates British politics.
Colonel Gaddafi threatened retaliatory attacks on passenger aircraft in the Mediterranean last night if foreign countries launched air strikes against Libya.
“Any foreign military act” would expose “all air and maritime traffic in the Mediterranean Sea” as targets for a counter attack, the Libyan regime said.
The warning was issued after America formally backed a joint British and French initiative for a no-fly zone over Libya and other military action against Col Gaddafi’s regime.
Former British MP George Galloway, has been accused of embezzling funds from the Iraqi Oil-for-Food program, has provided material support to the terror group Hamas in the form of cash and vehicles, and notoriously gave a bizarre, gag-inducing impersonation of a cat lapping cream from the hands of Rula Lenska. (Ms. Lenska may be best remembered by North Americans for some hair spray commercials in the 1970's that became a running gag for Johnny Carson).
Galloway was in Canada this weekend providing his usual self-aggrandizing tripe and condemnation of western interests along with his grovelling subservience to his new employer, Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Galloway had cancelled an earlier trip to Canada after having learned that he was likely to be refused entry based on his terrorist-associations.
Galloway is now threatening to sue Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney for slander.
Galloway's “last publicity stunt involved him wearing a skin-tight red leotard on Celebrity Big Brother, and then pretending to be a cat licking milk from the palms of a B-list celebrity.”
“Minister Kenney has no interest in getting entangled in another one of George Galloway's desperate cries for someone – anyone – to notice him"