After all the Holocaust memorial events, with a promise of Never Again, it’s back to business as usual.

Only a couple of days later, the usual gang go into action, attacking the world’s only Jewish State.

Actors, politicians and members of human rights, solidarity and peace movements, including Pax Christi, gathered today in Westminster for the launch of a new coalition ENOUGH: End the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.

The usual predictable Christian groups join in this hate-fest: Amos Trust, Pax Christi, Quaker Peace and Social Witness.

Reminder: Quaker Peace & Social Witness co-ordinates the anti-Israel EAPPI in Britain and Ireland.

In the anniversary year of the abolition of slavery, this might be a good moment to remind these self-righteous people that many Quakers – and other Christians – became wealthy from trading in African slaves – a dark little corner of their history they might prefer to forget.

In Bristol, the church clergy themselves did not hesitate to “turn the Penny” from the slave trade. There were as many as 84 Quaker slave traders, among them Alexander and David Barclay - who later founded today’s Barclays Bank. Rev Raymund Harris (commissioned by Liverpool Council to justify slavery) dutifully wrote that the trade was “in perfect harmony with the principles of the Word of God ...” and received £100 for his pamphlet.

Yes, I know they like to boast about the Quaker abolitionists, but conveniently forget that it was long after many Quaker families became very rich from the trade, including the Penns, who founded Pennsylvania.

'Despite the remarkable clarity of Penn's vision for liberty, he had a curious blind spot about slavery. He owned some slaves in America, as did many other Quakers. Anti-slavery did not become a widely shared Quaker position until 1758, 40 years after Penn's death. Quakers were far ahead of most other Americans, but it's surprising that people with their humanitarian views could have contemplated using slaves at all.'

It took the Quakers 40 years to realise that they were wrong to condone slavery. How long will it take them to understand what is wrong with their prejudiced attitude to Israel?