I'd like to pose this question honestly and without any hidden intent. Why does this article about anti-Jewish bias in the British media begin with the first two examples being about persecuted Americans, not Jews? Is the author saying that if the Brits can turn on the Americans, the Jews must be next? Or is he trying to link a synonomous relationship between the USA and the Jewish People?
Instead of hitting you head on with facts, it seems to be trying to set something up in advance, or attempting to frame it somehow. Since this isn't an area I'm up on, I just didn't get it?
The afore-mentioned Carol Gould describes bringing a video cassette to a copying shop she has used for years in London, and being asked angrily by the proprietor, "Is this another one of your Jewish-Holocaust things?" He proceeded to launch into an attack that he told her he had been saving for years. It begins, "You people should look in the mirror and wonder why every so often there is a Holocaust or massacre or pogrom. You bring it on yourselves," and ends, "The Jews have no right to a country. What makes you people think you have a right to a country?"
The implicit equation of Jews and Nazis are now employed by everyone from the Mayor of London on down. To mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Spectator printed a piece by one Anthony Lippman, the son of a woman who survived Auschwitz, who wondered, "But for a turn of fate, could I have been a Nazi too?" His point is that Jews today have morphed into Nazis.
That is notable.
Couple of possibilities. Could just be a way to arouse US outrage or could be the author sees another connection.
European politics is notable for two things these days -- being anti-US and being anti-Israel, both countries blamed for disturbing what would otherwise be a largely peaceable world. Not so different than the Iranian concept of the Little and Big Satans.
The author may also be referencing the actual anti US slant of the UK press as well. It was the UK press whose headline after the US election commented -- How Can 59,000,000 Be So Dumb.