article_snippet: Ed Miliband was tonight facing growing calls to condemn the Labour peer 
article_snippet: Former deputy prime minister comments were met with fury by MPs today.
article_snippet: Home Affairs Select Committee member Michael Ellis said the Labour leadership needed to criticise the remarks immediately.
article_snippet: Fellow Conservative MP Conor Burns said John Prescott of claims view was 'half-baked, ill thought-out and sensationalist'.
article_snippet: Mr Ellis, a long-standing member of the respected Home Affairs Select Committee, told MailOnline: .
article_snippet: ‘John Prescott of claims should focus on that an Ed Miliband should immediately condone these remarks and be clear that these views cannot be justified.
article_snippet: ‘John Prescott of claims only helps to play into the hands of those who wish to destroy our society and everything that our hold dear.
article_snippet: Follow Conservative backbencher Mr Burns claimed it was 'one last attempt to make Follow Conservative backbencher Mr Burns relevant'.
article_snippet: People like Prescott would probably want nothing more than for it to blow up between the Jews and the Palestinians.
article_snippet: His comments were also slammed by members of the Muslim community. '
highlights_snippet: Ed Miliband was tonight facing calls to distance Ed Miliband from the claim .