Not sure quite what you’re getting at, specifically what part of the Balfour declaration you’re referring to, and I am not an expert on the particulars of same.
Brits have very little, if any love for Jews. It’s...genetic or something. They are suppressed anti-Semites, IMHO. What they dislike about Jews, I do not know, but I’d assume it’s kind of the Euro thing, that most of the various nationalities seem to think that Jews are such good businessmen that they must be taking advantage of others. Envy, in other words. Born, perhaps, of the generally rigid class structure of most Euro societies. If you’re born poor, you die poor, and how dare you aspire upwards, it makes everyone else look bad.
They can have it. But regardless of the nuances, Brits are very widely anti-Semitic (which makes no sense because the Arabs they love are Semites) and so I conclude they are by and large anti-Jew. I believe most Jews understand the antipathy and in a chagrined way, accept this on the part of the Brits like they get it from most other groups.
If that were wholly true, then they would have sided with the Nazis during WWII.
(I am aware of antisemitic propaganda such as “Hugh of Lincoln”, which was a blood-libel event that occurred in the 1200s, prominent enough for Chaucer to have mentioned it.)
An utter and disgusting lie.
The Jewish population of Great Britain lives happily without any major anti-semitism. In fact, Judaism is openly celebrated as a long standing and vibrant part of British culture.
British TV ran pro-Jewish documentaries across all five of its network channels last year. Did America?.
British Jewish entertainers, writers, politicians and businesspeople openly celebrate their Jewishness. The London East End Jew, with his sharp wit and mouth is as well loved and known a cultural icon as the Glaswegian or the Cockney.
The current British Prime Minister is part Jewish. As is the deputy PM. As is the leader of the opposition party(Labour). So you have Jewish-descended people in the three most important political positions in the UK.
Are Obama, Biden and Romney Jewish?......
Your post is disgusting. The comments about Britain are simply obnoxious. They are a disgusting slander on the vast, vast majority of the British people. Who are no more antisemitic than their American cousins.
The UK is the nation that rejected the naked antisemitism of the 1930’s Fascists, and continues to reject the antisemitism of the BNP and other fringe neo-nazi parties and groups. The nation that stood alone against Hitler, while America and others stood by. And the nation that liberated Belsen and saved Jewish lives.
To suggest that the British people are antisemitic OR that the jews of Britain are victims of mass cultural or physical antisemitism is a downright and disgusting lie.