More on anti-semite Ken Livingstone

First a rebuttal of Kens claims that al-Qaradawi isn't a mysognist homophobe that supports terrorism. The a longer article in the Observer about the rise of what they call the 'Pseudo-Left'. People that claim to be left wing but will support anyone, no matter how despicable, so long as they are anti-american. Finally a piece in the Spectator (registration required) about Ken's, and the rest of the Labour Party's, use of anti-semitism in order to win back the Muslim votes that they lost by the Iraq war.

To summarise this article it basically states that the Jewish community having sucessfully assimilated into british culture are no longer a single voting block and will vote depending on who they think will be better for Britian as a whole. Muslims, being generally newer immigrants and not having assimilated into British culture to the degree that Jews have, still tend to all vote the same way for what they think would be better for the Muslim community. The Muslims are also a numerically larger group. This means that it makes better electral maths to court the Muslims vote even if the extreme tactics needed alienate, the smaller and more diverse, Jewish vote because of their anti-semitism.