Federal Liberals are furious and are accusing the Conservatives of distributing taxpayer-funded leaflets that suggest the Grits are anti-Semitic.

Even NDP and Bloc Quebecois MPs have chimed in, calling the leaflets a new low in the Conservatives' partisan use of the "ten percenters" -- mailings that MPs are allowed to send to voters outside their own riding.

Conservatives are refusing to apologize and say the leaflets are factually accurate and that the Liberals have flip-flopped on Israel, terrorism and the fight against ant-Semitism.

The leaflets were handed out in five Liberal ridings with high Jewish populations, under the names of five different Tory MPs.

The pamphlets ask voters to pick a federal leader who "is on the right track to represent and defend the values of Canada's Jewish community."

They say Prime Minister Stephen Harper "led the world" in boycotting the second UN-sponsored conference on racism in Durban, South Africa, which was dubbed a "hate fest against Israel."

The previous Liberal government "willingly participated in (the) overtly anti-Semitic" first Durban conference in 2001, the pamphlets add.

Harper "strongly backed Israel's right to self-defence against Hezbollah" during the Lebanon conflict in 2006 but Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff "accused Israel of committing war crimes," the leaflets say.

The Conservatives also say they led the world against Hamas, while the Liberals wanted them de-listed as a terrorist organization.

Liberal Strategist Warren Kinsella made little attempt to control his anger on CTV News Channel's Power Play, calling the leaflets a "goddamn disgrace."

Montreal Liberal MP Irwin Cotler said on Power Play that the leaflets are "false on the facts."

He said the Liberals spoke out against the anti-Semitism at the first Durban conference and noted it was the Liberals that banned funding for Hamas and Hezbollah.

"What the Conservatives have done is political identity theft," he said. 'This is astonishing."

Tory MP and junior minister Joe Preston, whose name is on one of the flyers, said they were just telling "the truth."

"Quit swinging mud at us just for telling the truth," he told Power Play. "This is about setting the parameters about what we have done."

The Tories got some backing from a prominent Jewish group on the matter,

Frank Dimant, CEO of B'nai Brith Canada, said he didn't think of the pamphlets as accusing the Liberals of anti-Semitism.

Rather, he said that on some key issues, the Conservatives "were more in tune with the Jewish community" than the Liberals.

NDP deputy leader Thomas Mulcair also called for "an examination of conscience as to how much taxpayers' money we're spending on these very partisan attacks."

A recent report by Montreal's Le Devoir found Tory MPs have spent $6.3 million on the taxpayer-funded pamphlets.