Directed and written by Paul Morrison, it is the story of a Jewish door-to-door salesman who falls in love with a good chapel girl, and is told in Welsh, Yiddish and English.
Then there is the question of Miliband's complex relationship with the British Jewish community.
Yet there has been strong criticism of Miliband by some members of the Jewish community for his stance on Israel and, in particular, for backing a vote to recognise a Palestinian state last autumn.
As I reported in the London Evening Standard last week, the prime minister spoke recently at a fund-raising dinner for Norwood, a leading Jewish charity of which Desmond is the president.
Inglourious Basterds ultimately proved less than controversial because Tarantino was intelligent enough to eschew shots of Holocaust victims in favour of scenes featuring tough Jewish blokes making mincemeat of a cavalcade of cartoonish Nazi scumbags.
Born and bred in the city's old Jewish quarter of Cheetham Hill, he went to the tough Ducie High School and began work in Manchester town hall with nothing more in his pocket than a London University external degree.
The example most often cited is Mohamed Merah, the French-Algerian who killed three soldiers as well as three Jewish schoolchildren and a teacher last March.
The destructive orgy that ensued left at least 91 Jews murdered, 30,000 arrested, and more than 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged over the 9 and 10 of November 1938 in co-ordinated attacks against Jews in Germany and Austria.
As soon as the butcher, who was not Jewish, found out why they wanted the weights, he told them, "in no uncertain terms, to fuck off".
"Growing up in the Jewish faith … you learn a lot about individual setbacks.
But Palestinian officials are dismissive of the argument, saying there is no peace process to speak of and that Israel has done little to enhance Abbas's credibility by continuing to expand Jewish settlements and treating him with contempt.
