Gerald Kaufman was elected to the House of Commons in 1970. From 1987-1992 he served as Shadow Foreign Secretary under Neil McKinock. In 2002 he made a TV documentary “The End of the Affair” in which he recounted his early support and later disillusionment with Israel. Comparing the Jewish state to apartheid South Africa, he has called for economic sanctions and an arms embargo against Israel. The Board of Deputies of British Jews has declared him a self-hating Jew. In 2004 he was knighted for his services to Parliament. On the 15th of January 2009, Sir Gerald Kaufman delivered the following speech to the British House of Commons: