I think your unnecessary slander of the Scots was ill advised. It certainly doesn't help your claim about "antisemitism" as you seem to have revealed an equivalent racism against the Scots. Had you discussed some specific example of the "sclerotic" Scottish "state" then that might have been excusable. Lazy and gratuitous. You have lost a reader, Stephen.

'It certainly doesn't help your claim about "antisemitism" '

A Jew has lifted up a rock and gentile vermin have scurried out. What a surprise!

Does that comment even make sense Joshua?

Mr. Pollard, your article in the Telegraph contains lies and disinformation:

//This week in France, more than 7,000 Jews have signed a petition to the US Congress asking for political asylum because of anti-Semitism in France. //

That's a lie. The petition originates in the US and is signed by numerous Americans.

//The situation in Britain is not remotely as bad for Jews as it is in France. //

That's also a lie according to your OWN statistics:

UK: 594 incidents
France: 371 incidents

Increase between 2005 and 2006: 24% in France, 31% in the UK.

(Even though the number of Jews is substantially higher in France than in the UK (284,000 vs 600,000) and both populations are about equal (about 60 millions each).

Here is the report [page 4] from the equivalent Jewish body in France.

See here for more details.

"So where do you come from? ...No, no, I mean, where are you REALLY from? Ahem... Yes, that's nice but Where Are Your Parents From?"
Ah feel the love! There are definitely more Oswald Moseley's in the U.K. then there are Winston Churchill's.

Stephen whilst the comments you highlight are appalling, isn't getting worked up about anti-semitic comments on the Telegraph's site a little hypocritical in light of you allowing Joshua's increasing demented racist rants in your comment section? His reference to 'gentile vermin' above for example.

But when, Joshua, will you be apologising for claiming that Paul Oestreicher is "no more Jewish than Dr. Goebbels"?

When will you be supplying the reasoning and facts behind your claim that the BBC could have averted the Holocaust?

When will you be explaining what you meant by your reference to British mothers' "tainted milk"?

Oh that's it — never.

Stephen: friendly advice. Either ban the vile Joshua and anyone else who imitates him, or don't complain about anti-semitic views elsewhere. It sounds far too much like sauce for the goose but not for the gander.

...allowing Joshua's increasing demented racist rants in your comment section...

Stuart and I were discussing the Joshua issue and the thought was expressed that Joshua is actually Stephen's alter-ego, meant to spice up the comments section. Then a blogger wrote to me by e-mail and said that Joshua is a real person who comments on one or two other sites. The jury's out on this one.

I should say that it isn't my belief that Joshua is an alter ego of Stephen Pollard. My current theory is that he is connected with a lunatic creationist blogger named Mike Janitch. This is mainly based on this peculiar transmutation, mid-debate, into somebody named "DrWho", with a signature linking to www.mikejanitch.com.

In a previous incarnation this site promoted, for instance, the work of Kent Hovind, a convicted tax evader famous for hawking a decaying basking shark as the nemesis of evolution (he thought it was a plesiosaur). Whether or not there is a connection with Janitch, I doubt Joshua's bizarre persona can be real. I can't decide if it's a mocking parody of Melanie Phillips's views, or is designed to make her look moderate and reasonable.

Joshua said: "A Jew has lifted up a rock and gentile vermin have scurried out. What a surprise!"

Get a grip pal. My comment wasn't about The Jews vs. The Gentiles it was about Stephen's badly judged attempt at humour at the expense of the Scots. I don't care about semitism, anti-semitism or anti-anti-semitism particularly, but I do care about reading artcles by seeming hypocrites.