And the inevitable persecution begins:
Calls by George Galloway for Bradford to be "declared an Israel-free zone" are
being investigated by West Yorkshire Police.
"We don't even want any Israeli tourists to come to Bradford even if any of
them had thought of doing so.
"We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel - and you have to do the same."
Mr Galloway's spokesman Ron McKay said the remarks were an extension of a boycott and direct action movement against supermarkets and companies supporting Israel.
"George stands by the comments - he thinks they are quite reasonable," said Mr McKay.
"The reason he made them is because there's mass carnage and mass slaughter going on against the people of Gaza.
"Direct action helped in the struggle against apartheid."
'Extreme'
But Mr Halfon, MP for Harlow and a former political director of the Conservative Friends of Israel, described Mr Galloway's remarks as "shocking".
"This ill-considered rant will cause great offence to many," he said.
"Fortunately, I suspect most Bradford citizens are like British people as a whole: tolerant and decent - and will ignore Mr Galloway's demands, treating them with the contempt they deserve.
"They know that despite the tragedy in Gaza, that Israel is the only
democracy in the Middle East, that both ordinary Palestinians and Israelis have
suffered - not least because of the 13,000 rockets fired on to Israel by Hamas
and Islamic Jihad, since the Israeli unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in
2005."
"We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel - and you have to do the same."
Mr Galloway's spokesman Ron McKay said the remarks were an extension of a boycott and direct action movement against supermarkets and companies supporting Israel.
"George stands by the comments - he thinks they are quite reasonable," said Mr McKay.
"The reason he made them is because there's mass carnage and mass slaughter going on against the people of Gaza.
"Direct action helped in the struggle against apartheid."
'Extreme'
But Mr Halfon, MP for Harlow and a former political director of the Conservative Friends of Israel, described Mr Galloway's remarks as "shocking".
"This ill-considered rant will cause great offence to many," he said.
"Fortunately, I suspect most Bradford citizens are like British people as a whole: tolerant and decent - and will ignore Mr Galloway's demands, treating them with the contempt they deserve.
"They know that despite the tragedy in Gaza, that Israel is the only
democracy in the Middle East, that both ordinary Palestinians and Israelis have
suffered - not least because of the 13,000 rockets fired on to Israel by Hamas
and Islamic Jihad, since the Israeli unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in
2005."Nigel Grizzard of Bradford Synagogue described Mr Galloway's comments as "very extreme".
"Israelis come to Bradford - people from Bradford go to Israel - there are many people I know in Bradford who have relatives in Israel," he told BBC Radio Leeds.
"And I think Mr Galloway's comments are completely off the wall and nothing to do with the reality of today's life in Bradford."
'National movement'
Jonathan Arkush, vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, described the remarks as "odious".
Murdering sleeping schoolchildren in a UN shelter is "self-defense". Speaking out against murdering sleeping schoolchildren in a UN shelter is "extreme", "shocking", has "nothing to do with reality", and is "contemptible" and "very extreme".
Because "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East".
Professor Ilan Pappé: Israel Has Chosen To Be A "Racist Apartheid State" With U.S. Support
