Jolly Rot [UPDATED]
Let’s file this story under “Blowing Aggie’s Stack”:
The English town of Worcester is seeking sister city status with Gaza City in a gesture of solidarity with Palestinians, a government official said Thursday.
Councilor Alan Amos told Britain’s Channel 4 News the twinning would draw attention to what he called the “dreadful occupation” and blockade that Gazans had suffered. The BBC says Worcester City Council backed the move this week.
Sister city status in Britain typically involves the organization of school visits, trade links, and cultural exchanges, but it was unclear whether authorities in Worcester, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of London, had discussed their plans with their counterparts in Gaza. Calls to the city council went unanswered late Thursday.
Britain’s foreign policy would likely make any official exchange awkward as the Gaza Strip is ruled by the Islamic militant group Hamas, which the Britain considers a terrorist organization. Britain’s Foreign Office has warned its citizens that travel in Gaza would be “reckless.”
Please note that Worcester isn’t one of those Pakistani Muslim-dominated cities like Bradford or Oldham “oop north”. No, this is good, home-grown, British anti-Semitism, just like mom used to make (if mom was a Mitford or a Mosely).
They had to twin with Gaza? Gaza under Hamass?
Where else are they “twinned”? Nuremburg? Wannsee? Treblinka?
UPDATE
Reader Joe alerts us to these comments that not all of the people of Worcester approve of this deranged idea.