Give Health Minister Zane DeSilva a little credit for apologising for making an anti-Semitic slur in the House of Assembly.But it’s worrying that while he did withdraw the remark after making it in the House of Assembly, and did apologise for it again on Tuesday, he does not seem to recognise just how offensive it is, calling it an “old Bermudian expression” and explaining that the House of Assembly can get “a little fiery” at times.That reflects an all too common double standard in Bermuda politics.It was Mr DeSilva, who having walked with his wife through a crowd of mainly white protesters during the Uighur crisis, who said he felt the only thing missing was a “rope and a tree”.Mr DeSilva may well have felt threatened then, and might well have felt that the protest was racially motivated, as he inferred.But if he is going to be given credence and empathy on that, as he was, then he should recognise that uttering an ethnic slur against Jews, and then trying to explain it away “as an old Bermudian expression” and that “these things happen” is not good enough and throws the sincerity of his apology into doubt.