[Cronos]

well, historically the UK has always been mildly anti-semitic -- it was among the first to ban Judaism in the 13th century

Later on, it took in Jews, but these were assimilated heavily -- so they looked and acted English. At the same time of course they assimilated the Welsh and Scottish into the English way.

But this was all, let's call it the "milder form of prejudice" -- they roundly rejected any form of violence against Jews in the 1920s by the British Blackshirts etc

This anti- is more correctly termed as anti-Israel. Israel was a british mandate until a violent uprising by the Israelies

Now there is the media sense which talks about how the Isralis are "oppressing" the "poor Palestinians"

I don't understand it either -- the Palestinians who accept living in Israel are living good lives, and those outside it can easily live in Jordan or Egypt or SAudia...

[SJackson]

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[the scotsman]

The UK and England are not the same.

England did not assimilate the Scots, as we joined the UK, we were not conquered by England.