Brits have always hated Jews. That’s why they didn’t let any into England or Israel before WW II, and let Hitler slaughter them.
I don’t get that sense at all with the Britons I’ve met, nor those that post here on Freep. But the BBC, known to some as the Bloody Bleepin’ Communists, is another matter. It’s of a piece with the London Guardian, the New York Times, CNN, and Haaretz. Just how they came to loudly say mea culpa before Parliament is probably an interesting story, and on its face puts the lie to that accusation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli
The United States of America has yet to elect a Jewish president.
A jack mooselimb commie traitor is the farthest we've ventured from the conventional.
Utter rubbish.
Firstly, the British have not ‘always hated Jews’. There is NO history of antisemitism in Scotland, Wales or NI. And English antisemitism historically has been much, much less than mainland Europe. Modern anti-semitism has been confined to an upper class group in the 1930’s (the Cliveden Set) and a tiny minority of working class white far-right groups (like Mosley’s British Fascists of the 1930’s, and the BNP today). As well of course as a minority of Islamic extremists.
The British did reject and have continued to reject the anti-semitism that gripped Europe for a generation. The British simply have never cared (bar a minority) about people’s Jewishness. In fact, the tenets of Judaism and Jewish life (education, respect for law and order, hard work, morality) are greatly admired. The newest primetime documentary on British TV this week, which will be watched by about 10-15m people, is about the Jewish community of Manchester.
Some of Britain’s most admired and much beloved businessmen, entertainers, politicians over the years and now are openly Jewish. And some of our most iconic companies (Marks and Spencer’s, Odeon Cinemas, Burton’s) are Jewish.
Britain has had a Jewish Prime Minister, in fact the current PM has Jewish blood, and so many prominent Jewish
politicians over the years, I dont have the space to write them all. Where’s the American Jewish President btw?. You cant even elect a white anglo-saxon woman!.
I undertstand you are angry about this story, but to claim that Britain and the British people are anti-semitic is utterly wrong. Your ignorance of history and British history is utterly wrong.
Secondly, you are again so wrong about ‘Britain not letting Jews in’ its laughable. Everyone knows that Britain took in tens of thousands of German Jewish refugees in the 1930’s. 100000 to be exact. More than America, btw. So you are ignorant not once, but twice.
Lastly, to suggest we ‘let Hitler kill the Jews’ is so pathetic I almost think you are being funny. Where was America in 1939, 1940 and 1941?. Who fought Hitler and the Nazis the longest?. Who fought them alone when no-one else would?. Who took in more Jews than America?.
We British were the only people brave enough to stand up to the Nazis and the Italian fascists, whilst America cowered 3000 miles across the ocean.
And you have the ignorance and nerve to attack us?.
I think the Brits hate that a tiny rag tag ill armed group of Jews chased out a large British military force in pre-State Israel. The Israelis humiliated the Brits.