We must remember another Israeli ambassador recently called Jimmy Carter, the most decent man to be president this century and the one president who made a genuine contribution to peace in the Middle East, "a bigot."
I have no problem describing such remarks as special-pleading and just plain ignorant.
If Israel is to be a state like any other state, its policies must be subject to the criticisms we apply to any other state.
Israel's behavior towards all of its neighbors has been horrible. Its attacks on Lebanon were simply war crimes.
It holds the Palestinians in virtual bondage. Moral authorities like Bishop Tutu and Nelson Mandela have said plainly that Israel practices apartheid.
Israel claims to be democratic but ignores the results of a clean election it doesn't like. It arrests the members of that government and threatens its leaders with assassination. It slowly starves out 1.4 million people for the crime of voting for the wrong party.
It unfairly labels parties like Hamas as terrorists, a ridiculous charge from a state in large part founded on terror and one that secretly subsidized Hamas to create opposition for Fatah.
Are we to just ignore these things, as Israel's apologists ceaselessly insist that we do?
Israel only has to start treating its neighbors decently and to make genuine efforts for peace to quickly alter opinions in Britain and around the world.
The truth is that the Israeli government still quietly practices slow-motion ethnic-cleansing. The dream of Greater Israel, at the expense of its neighbors, still is very much alive.
You are anti-Israel for opposing such horrible abuse of power?
