Robin Shepherd: Fake outrage as UK press distorts Israeli president's remarks about anti-Israel sentiment in Britain and then stokes more anti-Israel sentiment - 'The fake outrage now sweeping through British media and political circles about Shimon Peres' analysis of anti-Israel hostility in the UK is something to behold. Peres had made a series of remarks about Britain and other European countries to Tablet Magazine. As anyone who reads the comments can see (link above) Peres was measured and fair in his analysis which centred on long standing pro-Arab sentiment in important parts of the British establishment, attempts to appease Britain's Muslim population and traditions of anti-Semitism in some quarters. He did acknowledge that there was also some support for Israel in Britain but portrayed that as a minority pursuit largely confined to sections of the British right...'