Dear David,
I imagine you are still recovering from the city's remarkable FA Cup exploits. As a football fan (not Chelsea) I share in your joy! I think today maybe we are all #JeSuisBradfordCity.
But before we get to carried away, any explanation of another hashtag? I was hoping to hear from you by now regarding #JeSuisPalestinian reference to the Paris events (now becoming a more distant memory yet still painful). I have written to you 3 times previously regarding this. Previously when I've written to you on other matters, you have always responded promptly.
I have started to get a little paranoid as to why the silence. You might have gathered that I am not a Muslim. In fact, you may gather that I am Jewish. I am a member of our National Liberal Club in Whitehall as I have a political leaning towards Liberals (both with a big and little "l").
My paranoia has been exasperated by reading that MPAC boasted about how it influenced the outcome of 2010 Bradford elections which you won.
The previous incumbent, Labour’s Terry Rooney (not Jewish, but pro-Israeli) lost by 365 votes in the 2010 general election after MPAC distributed thousands of leaflets calling him a Zionist Islamophobe and “warmonger” who could not represent Muslims. You appeared to be the beneficiary of this racial smear campaign, David.
And since then, you have fulfilled some of MPAC’s wildest expectations. In 2013, you were suspended from the Lib Dem parliamentary party after criticising “the Jews” for inflicting atrocities on the Palestinians and questioning Israel’s right to exist.
During the Gaza conflict last year you stated: “If I lived in Gaza, would I fire a rocket? Probably yes.”
Until January last year, you employed MPAC’s spokesman, Raza Nadim, as your constituency assistant.
Given all of this, would I really be making a wild leap of faith in assuming you might not dignify Jews with the same courtesies as others? You do seem to hold us responsible for some bad "stuff"?
David, I'm sure this would be easy to clarify if you would only answer my original question...... #JeSuisPalestinian? Porquois?
I hold out hope for a rational explanation and am sure you can dispel my paranoia.

I'm not holding my breath!

Letter from London: 25th January 2015 5 Shevat 5775