He’s absolutely right. And they were anti-Semitic long before the present problems in the Mideast. The things you can hear at a London dinner party at which the guests are educated, distinguished people, would shock almost any American. They are absolutely open about their distaste for Jews. I’m not Jewish but I’m a Zionist, and I have been shocked by British thinking. Prince Charles is NOT out of the mainstream on this.
We are spoiled here in the US—we all basically get along pretty well, give or take a small minority of racists (most of whom are black or Hispanic). We’re not accustomed to hearing such shocking racism from the mouths of white people. In Europe it’s common.
Sheriff Bart had it right — “All right, you caught me. Speaking the plain truth is getting pretty damn dull around here.”
Well, if some weren’t anti-semetic, they will be now. Great way to win friends and influence people... making stereotypical comments. Moron.
There’s nothing controversial about this, it’s a provable and longstanding fact not even worth investigating. I love the Brits and am grateful for the terrific alliance the US and they share, but they are indeed anti-Semitic. They would be and were anti-Semitic long before they allowed their nation to acquire serious momentum towards Sharia law and a dangerous demographic sure to load them with Muslims for a dozen decades.
Amazing to witness people get terribly bent when confronted with the truth..... =.=
I guess I don’t understand how you can be “deeply pro-Arab” and be anti-Semitic; Arabs are a Semitic people.
For once Peres may have actually told the truth.
The British have always hated the Jews.
But then, the British have always looked down upon every other race of people and even most other Christians.
Nobody here seems to remember that for the first 20 years or so of the state of Israel, up to about the mid-70s, Israel was hugely popular in Britain, particularly among the young, who idealised the new state: and the trendy thing for a left-leaning young Briton to do at that time was to spend their summer vacation in Israel as a voluntary worker on a Kibbutz. There were also very strong political ties, especially between the Labour parties of the two countries, which retain links to this day. Yes, there are people in Britain with anti-semitic views, as there are, alas, more or less anywhere, the U.S. not excluded: but to assert, as some have on this thread, that the British as an entire nation are and always have been anti-semitic is, I’m afraid, nonsense.
I remember walking through Hyde Park with my uncle and being treated to an anti-Semitic rant. It was astonishing.
There historical facts about England and the Jews.
(A) In 1290, King Edward I issued an edict expelling all Jews from England. Lasting for the rest of the Middle Ages, it would be over 350 years until it was formally overturned in 1656.
(B)[In a betrayal of the Balfour Declaration- and resulting in dooming many Jews to Hitler]
The White Paper of 1939, also known as the MacDonald White Paper after Malcolm MacDonald, the British Colonial Secretary who presided over it, was a policy paper issued by the British government under Neville Chamberlain in which the idea of partitioning the Mandate for Palestine, as recommended in the Peel Commission Report of 1937, was abandoned in favour of creating an independent Palestine governed by Palestinian Arabs and Jews in proportion to their numbers in the population by 1949 (section I). A limit of 75,000 Jewish immigrants was set for the five-year period 1940-1944, consisting of a regular yearly quota of 10,000, and a supplementary quota of 25,000, spread out over the same period, to cover refugee emergencies. After this cut-off date, further immigration would depend on the permission of the Arab majority (section II). Restrictions were also placed on the rights of Jews to buy land from Arabs (section III).
[c]Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE, MC better known as Glubb Pasha (born 16 April 1897, Preston, Lancashire – died 17 March 1986, Mayfield, Sussex), was a British soldier best known for leading and training Transjordan’s Arab Legion 1939-1956 as its commanding general. [A serving British officer led the Jordanians in attacking the newly declared State of Israel]
Considering the damage they have done I believe it’s fair to consider the British as a people and Government (certainly not all individuals), as one of the Jewish peoples great foes.
For once, Peres, who lived through the British occupation of the Land of Israel and knows all the dealings of perfidious Albion, spoke honestly.
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...provoked anger from senior MPs and Jewish leaders who said the 87-year-old president had "got it wrong". But other groups backed the former Israeli prime minister and said the number of anti-semitic incidents had risen dramatically in the UK in recent years.
Peres is right to a certain degree, but I’m surprised he said it — he’s usually quite diplomatic in his criticisms. Old age, I suspect.
The president of Israel is correct.
The British Ambassador to France called Israel “that shi**y little country”
Leftist antisemites and Eurabianist swine are the rulling class in Europe. As for occupied Britannia, Cameron is a bigger threat to Jews than Nick Griffin would be as PM and he was a quasi-Nazi.
There's some news.... Also reported, sun rises in the east, sets in the west, and water is wet.
Mark
Benjamin Disraeli
“Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British Prime Minister, parliamentarian, Conservative statesman and literary figure. He served in government for three decades, twice as Prime Minister. Although his father had him baptised to Anglicanism at age 13, he was nonetheless the country’s first and thus far only Prime Minister who was born Jewish.[1] He played an instrumental role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party after the Corn Laws schism of 1846.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli