Our politicians and our media lie to us, routinely, in many different ways.

There are outright untruths, distortions, deceptions, and there's also a specific form of lying,

which is called lying by a mission.

You strip out some central facts in order to give your audience a completely false impression

of what has actually taken place.

And I have to say, nowhere is this more true than when it comes to Israel and its genocide

of the Palestinian people and all the issues related to that.

Which brings me to the case of a Labour MP whose visit to a school was cancelled and were told he was

banned. Now, this case first emerged because Steve Reid, who is Secretary of State

for Housing Communities and local government, is a cabinet minister in the Labour government,

said the following at a conference. I have a colleague who was Jewish, who has been banned from visiting a school and

refused permission to visit a school in his own constituency in case his presence inflames the

teachers. That is an absolute outrage. He added, they will be called in and they will be held

to account for doing that because you cannot have people with those kinds of attitude teaching our children. Sounds outrageous, doesn't it? If a member of parliament is banned from

visiting a school because they are Jewish, that is outright anti-Semitism and genuinely scandalous.

What exactly is going on then? Well, if you turn to the Daily Telegraph for honest reporting

of news events, then my deepest

consolations, but they claim to have the story of what had happened here. Their shocking headline

is Jewish MP banned from school after pro-Palestine campaign. It goes on, a Jewish MP was

banned from visiting a school after a campaign by pro-Palestine activists. Damien Egan, the Labour MP for Bristol-Northeast,

had planned to visit Bristol Brunel Academy in September.

However, the visit was cancelled

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