 Mencap spokesman Ismail Kaji said that the comments could be misconstrued and seen as "no different to bullying".In April 2010, the BBC Trust's Editorial Standards Committee apologised for a joke made by Boyle on Radio 4 panel show "Political Animal" in which he likened the situation in Palestine to "a cake being punched to pieces by a very angry Jew".Boyle also made another joke where he said that he had "been studying Israeli Army martial arts.