Ed Miliband and his father that hates the goys in the UK

[Ognir]

Miliband furious over newspaper claims about his father
Labour leader hits out at article describing his father 'as man who hated Britain'


Labour leader Ed Miliband was embroiled in an extraordinary war of words with a national newspaper after it stood by a profile describing his father as "the man who hated Britain".

Mr Miliband hit back at the Daily Mail with a response in the newspaper claiming the "absurd" profile was based on a diary entry written by his adolescent father, who fled Belgium aged 16 to escape the Nazis.

But Labour was furious after the newspaper reprinted the essay on Ralph Miliband alongside his son's piece, together with a leader column attacking the "tetchy and menacing" response from the leader of the Opposition.

A senior party source said: "Ed Miliband wrote his right to reply article because he wanted to state clearly that his father loved Britain."

"He wanted the Daily Mail to treat his late father's reputation fairly. Rather than acknowledge it has smeared his father, tonight the newspaper has repeated its original claim. This simply diminishes the Daily Mail further."

"It will be for people to judge whether this newspaper's treatment of a World War Two veteran, Jewish refugee from the Nazis and distinguished academic reflects the values and decency we should all expect in our political debate."

In the essay, first printed in Saturday's edition of the Daily Mail, Geoffrey Levy examined the political beliefs of Marxist academic Ralph and how that influenced his two sons. It questioned what Ralph Miliband, who died in 1994, "really" believed in, adding "the answer should disturb everyone who loves this country".

The Daily Mail had quoted the 17-year-old Ralph writing that the Englishman is a "rabid nationalist" and "you sometimes want them almost to lose (the war) to show them how things are".

But the Opposition leader said fierce debate about politics did not justify "character assassination" of his father, who joined the Royal Navy and fought in the Second World War after arriving in Britain.

The Labour leader won the backing of his elder brother and former rival David, who tweeted: "My dad loved Britain."

In his response, the Mr Miliband wrote: "Like most refugees, the security of our country was really important to him. And like some refugees, he owed his life to it. So my Dad loved Britain, he served Britain, and he taught both David and me to do the same."

Mr Miliband said he accepted politicians needed to be held to account but what appeared in the Daily Mail on Saturday "was of a different order altogether".


http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/miliband-furious-over-newspaper-claims-about-his-father-1.1546163

[Christopher Marlowe]

Mr Miliband hit back at the Daily Mail with a response in the newspaper claiming the "absurd" profile was based on a diary entry written by his adolescent father, who fled Belgium aged 16 to escape the Nazis....

The Daily Mail had quoted the 17-year-old Ralph writing that the Englishman is a"rabid nationalist" and "you sometimes want them almost to lose (the war) to show them how things are".

But the Opposition leader said fierce debate about politics did not justify "character assassination" of his father, who joined the Royal Navy and fought in the Second World War after arriving in Britain.

If a Jew is a foreigner, and he wants the English to lose the war, then it is not difficult to believe that he hates the English. I don't know if Ralphy hated all of Britain.

If an Englishman's diary were published showing that the author wished that Ralphy had been sent to a work camp, like Auschwitz, would anybody be debating whether the author was an anti-semite?