Even before Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband took to his feet in the House of Commons to announce the UK government’s decision to restrict trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, he will have known that the issue is going to drive a major wedge between Number 10 and the White House.  As early as last weekend, the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, accused Andy Burnham’s government of “Jew hate” that “knows no boundaries and knows no facts”. (The ambassador now claims that he knew Miliband is Jewish when he made the incendiary comment).   In the hours leading up to Miliband’s official pronouncement, Huckabee went even further, telling the BBC that […]