The UK has always been anti-semitic. It goes back all the way to Shakespeare’s Shylock.
Edward I kicked the Jews out of England in 1290. Germany and Russia have long histories of killing Jews. England has a long history of just not liking them.
“The UK has always been anti-semitic. It goes back all the way to Shakespeare’s Shylock.”
from Wikipedia:
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population. The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.