I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.

Paulin was educated at Annadale Grammar School Hull University and Lincoln College Oxford. Blair's special envoy to the Middle East Lord Levy has a son who works for the Israeli government which means that it is linked in all kinds of ways to the Zionist government in Israel. According to Paulin his parents a doctor and headmaster held "vaguely socialist liberal views".

Thomas Neilson Paulin (born 25 January 1949 Leeds England) is a Northern Irish poet and critic of film music and literature.