A Darkness Falls on England

The Jerusalem Post ^ | February 15, 2005 | Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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London — It may sometimes seem that British Jews display upper lips as stiff as their non-Jewish countrymen's, preferring to suffer quietly or downplay prejudice directed against them.

But new official statistics have revealed that anti-Semitic incidents in Britain have reached new heights.

According to the Community Security Trust, the body that monitors threats to British Jewry, a total of 532 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded last year, marking a 42 percent increase from 2003.

The figures include a 323% rise in anti-Semitic threats, with an all-time high of 93 such incidents last year, compared with 22 in 2003.

There was also a 54% increase in assaults, with 83 attacks recorded last year, including four in which the victim's life was endangered.

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But community leaders are keen to emphasize that this new atmosphere goes far beyond street thuggery.

They charge that widespread media hostility toward Israel, which many feel often crosses the line from acceptable criticism into downright bias, has served to legitimize prejudice against Jews.

One such incident was the publication of a cartoon in the staunchly pro-Palestinian newspaper The Independent on January 27, 2003 — Holocaust Memorial Day — that showed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon biting off the head of a Palestinian child.

Not only were official complaints by Jewish groups dismissed, but the drawing went on to win the Cartoon of the Year award from Britain's Political Cartoon Society.

As for the BBC, whose policy is to describe Palestinian terrorists as "militants," the corporation's stance so angered the Israeli government that by mid-2003 Israeli officials temporarily severed all official contact with the broadcaster.

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The issue has spilled over into university circles, with calls for British scholars to boycott their Israeli counterparts.

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[sushiman]

Wouldn't have anything to do with the enormous influx of Moslems into the UK in recent years , would it ? ( rhetorical q ) ???

[mercy]

I get so much flack whenever I bring this up but we really are in the End Times. I don't think Jesus would have referenced such a thing if he wasn't warning us that the time was indeed limited. Poor Israel ... hated by what seems like most of the world (including many in our own country) and now pinned against a wall as 'Fortress Israel'. Its just too uncanny.

[Mark in the Old South]

They will get help when they most need it and in a way that most will not understand or expect. The weak will be strong.

[samadams2000]

How many times can a peoples let their guard down and let history roll over them?

They are our ancestors?? Geez... youd think their only compass would be history but they have no clue.

God Save America is all I say...and they will say it again.

[ED Basher]

I agree,

All we need is the EU (revised Roman Empire) to strengthen, and the rags to get nukes, the Russian/Iranian(soon IRAQ too) Alliance and we got the end times. It is amazing how quickly the pieces are coming together. I could go on and on about this but the key is the acceleration of the rate of Judeo-Christian cultural decay.

Open homosexuality, abortions, lawlessness, etc.: Man is rapidly turning away from God. He will have to step in soon, or all the work His Son accomplished will be erased (we know He will not let that happen !!)

Thank the Lord for the Rapture. I don't want to be around when it starts ...

Take Care,
ED

[Brian Allen]

<< Thank the Lord for the Rapture. I don't want to be around when it starts ... >>

Be still -- and know that [He is] God.

Blessings -- B A

[mercy]

I hope you're right about the rapture. It would be seem a first in typology though. Unless perhaps we look at the way God took the Jews out of Egypt. I've never been able to call myself pre, mid, or post. Doesn't matter really.

I was in Israel last year. Was all over the Old City and the Temple area. Walked through the tunnel along the base of the Western Wall. I had never thought of it before but the rift valley that contains the Dead Sea is the same that cuts through the Red Sea and down into Africa. It is highly seismicly active.

Mt Moriah, which is the rock where Abraham nearly sacrificed Isac and now is beneath the Dome of the Rock abomination, could be cleansed of everyting built on it by one good earthquake. What a slick way to prepare the way for the building of the last Temple.

[familyop]

Anti-Semitism in Britain ping.

[185JHP]

A perfectly-aimed "errant" scud would also remove the pestilential thing...

[atomic conspiracy]

It's true that Arabists and Reds have gained the upper hand in British media, academia, and a large part of the business community.
I don't think that Britain is finished yet, however. Beneath the sneering of the BBC and the rampant Islamophilia of the chattering class, there are millions who will not submit to foreign tyranny under any circumstances.
I don't know how or when the wheel will turn, but a thousand years of history argue that it will.

[Boot Hill]

When it rains, it pours! You'll probably want to see this thread, too.

--Boot Hill

[kingsurfer]

Thanks for the ping.
Mayeb I should start doing an anti-semitism in America ping just to even things up. I would hate for people to think that Britain is the centre of anti-emitism in the world.

[IAF ThunderPilot]

I hope UK is not trying to follow her neighbor- France.
It seems to get worser in the near future for the Europian Jews.

The French Jews' alliyha to Israel is in raise in the last few years.
Due to the fact that the anti-semitism in France only gets worser, the Jewish Agency expects that thousands of French Jews will arrive to Israel in 2005.

They indeed should follow our steps and make alliyha to Israel.

Note that in more than 90% of the anti-semitic incidents in Europe and especially in France, Muslims are involved and not the "native" population.

Maybe here (in Israel) the Jews need to confront with nuts Arabs, yet this is way better than being afraid of going out in Europe- just because you are a Jew.

The lessons of the Holocaust weren't learned by the Europians, and worser- they weren't learned by many Jews.

Many Jews didn't learn the lesson- that the only solution to the Jewish problem is a strong, independent and democratic Jewish state.

That is, after all, the main idea of the Zionism that proved itself.
At least, it proved itself for millions of Jews since 1948-including my family and myself.

FRmail me to be added or removed from this Israel Defense Forces and Israel ping list. Here you will find news, articles and fascinating stories about the IDF and Israel.

[kingsurfer]

Note that in more than 90% of the anti-semitic incidents in Europe and especially in France, Muslims are involved and not the "native" population.

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Absolutely and the other ten percent are inbred, racist scum. We can deal 90% of the problems by strict immigration policies. The other ten percent we can watch self-destruct.

[Boot Hill]

"Mayeb I should start doing an anti-semitism in America ping just to even things up."

I'm sure you understood, but just to be clear, I pinged you only as a gesture of comradeship, to a subject you'd expressed an interest in, not to "rub your nose in it" or to say "see, I told you so".

--Boot Hill

[hershey]

A bonus to being anti Israel is that it fits beautifully with being anti American, and that's number one on the hit parade.

[kingsurfer]

Oh absolutely. Thanks for the ping.

There are others (a small minority thankfully) here who like to imply that Britain is on the road to Nazi Germany. I find this unfortuanate and unsightly.
Please feel free to ping me in future if you see something I might be interested in.

: )

[SirLurkedalot]

Amen!

[Boot Hill]

"There are others (a small minority thankfully) here who like to imply that Britain is on the road to Nazi Germany."

I'm sure there is anti-Semitism in Britain, just like here in America, and given the current state of world affairs, I'd hardly be surprised to learn that it was on the rise in either country. But by far, the most important thing that comes to my mind, when I think about Britain, is that in the dark days after we were attacked on 9-11, that Tony Blair, a socialist, set his personal politics aside and stood at the wall, shoulder to shoulder with the United States.

Coincidentally, it was just tonight that I listened to the History Channel re-telling the story of Billy Fiske, an American who died as an RAF officer and pilot, defending England in the Battle of Britain in 1940. What goes around comes around, doesn't it?

--Boot Hill