Rabbi whose wife and daughters were murdered in West Bank blasts double standards sanctions, accuses Labour of ignoring Palestinian 'Pay for Slay'

A BRITISH rabbi whose wife and two daughters were killed by Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank has slammed Andy Burnham for picking on 'Jewish Israelis like me'.Rabbi Leo Dee, 54, hit out at the PM's 'hypocrisy' for boycotting products from Israeli settlements while taking no action against Islamist extremists.In particular, he took aim at Mr Burnham for not taking any action against the Palestinian Authority's 'notorious pay-for-slay system'.The sickening policy means the family of the gunmen who killed his wife Lucy, 48, and daughters Maia, 20, and Rina, 15, get thousands of pounds a year for life from the Palestinian government as a reward.The PM and Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband sanctioned illegal Israeli settlements' goods over a deeply controversial project that risks killing off any hope of a two-state solution.But they did not even mention the 'pay for slay' policy that encourages and finances extremist Palestinian terrorism in the West Bank that is arguably just as big a block to peace. Rabbi Dee whose family were killed by Palestinian terrorists slammed Labour's 'hypocrisy' Ed Miliband and Andy Burnham were accused of singling out Jewish IsraelisRabbi Dee, who lives in Efrat, wrote: 'I am perhaps the British citizen who has suffered most directly from Britain’s misguided policies towards Israel and the Palestinians over the past 25 years.'My Oxford-educated wife, Lucy, and my British-educated daughters, Maia and Rina, were brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists in the Jordan Valley in April 2023.'Since their murders, the terrorists’ families have been eligible for payments from the Palestinian Authority under its notorious “pay-for-slay” system.'The terrorist organisations responsible for so much bloodshed have also flourished in an environment sustained for decades by international funding, including British support for the PA and UNRWA.'And now you propose boycotting products made by Jews living in the West Bank.'You insist that you are not against Israelis. Yet you are prepared to single out Jewish Israelis like me for economic punishment.'That is the hypocrisy I find so difficult to accept.'Rabbi Lee's intervention comes after Mr Miliband dismissed a warning from Britain's Chief Rabbi that the policy would harm British Jews.Sir Ephraim Mirvis condemned the Foreign Secretary for implementing trade restrictions and accused him of fuelling 'mendacious anti-Israel rhetoric' that would put Jewish people in danger. Rabbi Dee's Oxford-educated wife, Lucy, and my British-educated daughters, Maia and Rina, were killed The controversial E1 settlement that will slice the West Bank in twoHowever, Mr Miliband told Sky News: 'I’m a proud British Jew and I don’t agree with the Chief Rabbi. I have great respect for the Chief Rabbi but I don’t agree with him.'Rabbi Leo's wife and two daughters were killed six months before the October 7 terror atrocity in an unprovoked attack.School teacher Lucy, 48, and her daughters Maia, 20, and Rina, 15, were driving to Tiberias on holiday when Palestinian gunmen ambushed it and shot them dead.He remarried to Aliza Teplitzky, 44, last year, and has three surviving children: Keren, 22, Tali, 20, and Yehuda, 17.Rabbi Leo said to Mr Burnham that if 'you genuinely believe your policy is principled rather than discriminatory' he would debate him 'anywhere and at any time'.He said: 'For decades, Palestinian terrorism has killed thousands of innocent Israelis, like my wife and daughters, while the Palestinian Authority has operated a system financially rewarding prisoners and the families of those killed carrying out attacks partially funded by the UK. Yet your moral outrage is directed not at those institutions, but at Jewish businesses in Judea and Samaria.Of course Palestinians have also been killed by Israelis, including tragically innocent people. But many deaths have occurred during terrorist attacks, armed clashes and Israeli security operations.'Equating those circumstances with a government system that financially rewards convicted terrorists and their families obscures a crucial moral distinction.'To paraphrase the late Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: criticising or boycotting Israel is not necessarily antisemitic. Singling out Israel for standards applied to no other country can be.'