Quotes by Tom Paulin

• I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.
• Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.
• You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.
• This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.
• I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.
• I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.
• I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.
• I am not very moved by historical apologies.
• Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.
• In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.