Criticise at your peril

What happened to our right to free speech ?
Currently the Jewish lobby is up in arms against members of the Labour Party for criticising the the actions of the Israeli government in Tel Aviv.
I think it common cause that the heavy handed actions against the Palestinians has provoked criticism even from Israel's  paymaster the United States where it has a tremendously powerful and influential block vote in Congress.

Of course Israel has been in a covert/overt war with all of its Arab neighbours since 1947 when the state of Israel was founded as recompense for the terrible pogroms the European Jews had experienced, specifically under the Nazi's. 

Prior to this recognition in 1947, and followed the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, known as the Balfour Declaration mandated the area to be under British control in 1923. The 1947 arrangement was, on behalf of the United Nations, a handing over process, from the British for joint control between the Palestinians and the Jews. The plan was accepted by the Jews but not accepted by the Palestinians and the conflict rolls on to its present day bloody impasse.There have been moments in the journey when agreement was close but the intransigence of one side or the other was a hurdle too high.
The de facto situation is that the Israeli hates the Palestinian and visa versa.  Zionism, the nationalist political movement formed in 1896, flourished under these conditions and now reflects this as bitter antagonism.
We see today the result of the intransigence as a battle, on the Jewish side for their existence and on the Palestinian side a call,( pre Imperial tinkering ) for the reinstatement of their land.
David and Goliath, at the start of the Mandate the Jews numbered 56.000 and the Arabs 700.000 now many multiples of that but with an ultra modern army/airforce backed by American financial support the Israeli has 'might' on his side.
From our cosy European standpoint the Zionists are too heavy handed, too dictatorial, too unpleasant in their dealings with Palestine and have created a great deal of opposition amongst the more libertarian amongst us and this surfaces from time to time in comments and arguments trying to explain and solve the impasse. One such recent comment was from a Labour MP and made before she became an MP, was the suggestion of 'repatriation of Jews back to the USA' along the lines of the repatriation of Syrians who are flooding to Europe. It's something the author Philip Roth, himself a Jew had envisioned in a story line of a book he wrote, in this case, it was the repatriation of the bulk of the Jews to Continental Europe from whence they came in 1947 -onwards.
The Jewish lobby are always sensitive to such talk and with their propensity to avail themselves of the media ( they own much of it ) they respond and insist on who ever has had the temerity to question what they do "back home". The Jewish whip is cracked and our supine leaders, linked in all kinds of nefarious ways, rush to the dispatch box to threaten us "to be quiet",  which like 'good children' we are all supposed to do.
There is always this balance of keeping a lid on dissent within society but Jewish dissent reaches biblical proportions, ( akin to cartoons depicting Allah ) and one criticises at ones peril.