1—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.
2—So the Irgun and Stern gangs were just brave freedom fighters?. If they are Arab, Irish or anyone else, they are terrorists, when they are Jewish, they are ‘terrorists’, with all that that suggests. Why the unwillingness to admit they were fanatics and terrorists?. If the IRA were terrorists, so were the Irgun and Stern gangs.
BTW, you ARE aware that the latter group met with Nazi representatives in 1941 to try to agree to a deal whereby the Stern gang would attack British in Palestine in return for a free Israel and unmolested passage for Jews to Palestine if the Nazis won the war. That’s how fanatical Abraham Stern was.
3—British people are well aware of the Jewish Brigade (hell, we have grown up on Tobruk on the TV) and the pro-Nazism of the Arabs. We aren’t as ignorant of history and as badly educated as you lot.
4—96% of the UK is NOT Muslim. 92% is white. Muslims make a lot of noise, but hold NO major political, social or economic power.
5—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!.
Always getting my oar in: Richard the Third knighted the first Jew in England. Sir Edward Brampton. Go, Richard!
The British people are no more antisemitic than their American cousins.
Agreed but America has no history of mass expulsion, at least, not yet.