Ten and a half months ago my life changed forever. My older brother, Bernard, was murdered by terrorists as they entered his home and shot him dead in his kitchen. Bernard was 57 when he was murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7, in what has become renowned as the deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust.
My brother moved from Glasgow to Israel when he was 19 and lived a happy life with his wife, three kids and two grandchildren. (Image: Contributed) In the days that followed Bernard’s heinous murder, as well as that of 1,200 Israelis at the hands of the UK-recognised terror group, then Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf met with my family. There is a photo of Mr Yousaf took hugging my 82-year-old mother as our whole family mourned the loss of Bernard.
I have since reached the conclusion that the actions of the SNP since then, especially since Monday, have shown me that this was nothing other than a photo opportunity for the party, an act of Jew-washing, to avoid any accusation of inaction on combating the rife anti-Semitism that we suffer from in this country. In the last two weeks, one of the biggest scandals in Scotland has been the fact that a meeting took place between the Scottish Government and an Israeli diplomat. The SNP membership, including numerous councillors and MSPs, have called for the resignation of both the Scottish cabinet minister and the First Minister over the mere fact that they met with, and sanctioned a meeting with, a representativ.