A Jewish member of Britain’s Parliament lost her seat to a maverick pro-Palestinian candidate. In voting May 5 that brought Prime Minister Tony Blair to power for an unprecedented third term, Oona King lost the eastern London constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow, which has a large Muslim population, to former Laborite George Galloway.
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