This just reaffirms my opinion of Brits.
The 2014 ADL global study of anti-Semitism has found the UK to be the 6th LEAST anti-Semitic country in the world. One point AHEAD of the United States!.
Britain has a minor history of anti-Semitism, compared with Europe. You have the 1290 expulsion, but we had a Jewish prime minister when you were debating Dred Scott. And it was the British who stood up to Nazism, even when alone, and saved tens of thousands of Jewish refugee lives in 1938-39.
Britain historically has kept anti-Semitism on the fringes of society, unlike Europe. It has been carried out by extremists like Oswald Mosley or the BNP, or confined to some of the upper class. And the British public rejected Mosley, anti-Semitism and Fascism then and now. The BNP cant even make enough votes to retain their deposit.
And Britain/UK is not England: Scotland, Wales and Ireland/N Ireland have no history of anti-Semitism at all.
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 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?......
The British people 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 majority of British people are antisemitic OR that the jews of Britain are victims of mass cultural or physical antisemitism is a downright and disgusting lie.