David Ward is a UK academic and MP. He was elected the new Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East in 2010, taking the seat from Labour. Born in Lincoln, he attended Boston Grammar School in Boston, Lincolnshire and then qualified as a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) in 1976. He attended the University of Bradford Management Centre to complete a MBA and a MPhil by research. He thence started working at Leeds Polytechnic (later to become Leeds Metropolitan University) from 1985 for the following 18 years as a Principal Lecturer in finance and strategic management and as a Business Development Manager. In 1996 he obtained a MSc from the University of Leicester. He was elected as Bradford Metropolitan District Councillor on for the Idle and Thackley ward in 1984 and served for 26 years until elected to Parliament in 2010 (see: http://davidward.org.uk/en/page/about-david ).
David Ward MP on Israeli crimes against humanity (2010): “"Having visited Auschwitz twice - once with my family and once with local schools - I am saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza.” [1].
[1]. David Ward quoted by Alan Hart, “Alan Hart: You must not tell the truth! and chutzpah defined”, Sabbah Report, 26 January 2012: http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2013/01/26/alan-hart-you-must-not-tell-the-truth-and-chutzpah-defined/#utm_source=Sabbah+Report+Newsletter&utm_campaign=77b36c8aa0-Mailchimp_RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email .