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'We’re leaving Britain - Jews aren’t safe here any more’
The Daily Telegraph ^ | 06 Feb 2015 | Angela Epstein

Posted on 02/06/2015 6:50:35 PM PST by PotatoHeadMick

Simon and Honey Gould, married for more than 20 years and with two children, live a seemingly peaceful life in their handsome five-bedroom house in a quiet British suburb. Simon, 52, is a successful businessman running his own property company. Honey, 49, has pursued a career in marketing, while also raising son Arron, now 18, and daughter Angel, 16. Their wide circle of friends, close family and other relatives lives nearby. Yet this summer the Goulds will leave everything behind – their north Manchester home filled with memories, their lovely, rambling garden, their busy social life – and leave the UK for good.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: antiisrael; antisemitism; antisenitism; britain; muslims; unitedkingdom
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To: the scotsman

Thanks


101 posted on 02/07/2015 10:34:02 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: miss marmelstein

We agree with you We had two graduate programs at Berkeley we turned down because of the horrible prejudicial climate and intimidation/ violence there. Highly regarded study programs but the place is just too slimy and risky (where is Gov Brown - with his commitment to public service and his seminary training/ conscious - he’s the one that could clean this cesspool up)? Other campuses too


102 posted on 02/07/2015 11:01:52 AM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..😜)
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To: headstamp 2

“Intercession” - but He’s my boss too...

Thanks headstamp...


103 posted on 02/07/2015 11:02:01 AM PST by GOPJ (Good Muslims and radical Muslims - two sides of a coin - intertwined and interdependent.)
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To: doc1019
Open anti-Semitism is gaining strength in the US. This happened in OH not NY were one might expect it.
It is absolutely nuts, isn't it? If you want a real eye opener, look at the number of Jewish Nobel Prize recipients vs Muzzies. God said that the people of Judah are His chosen people. Godless people hate God's people.
104 posted on 02/07/2015 2:06:58 PM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: EDINVA

You’re right.


105 posted on 02/07/2015 3:15:24 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: the scotsman

Noted. I don’t like what’s happening to Britain any more than you do.


106 posted on 02/07/2015 6:57:38 PM PST by elcid1970 ("I: am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: the scotsman

We both agree on the generality but this article has come hard on the heels of a die-hard liberal luvvie like Maureen Lipman saying the same thing. I as you know am not Jewish so it is not for me to say whether antisemitism is on the rise on the UK but the fact remains that Jewish people who know these things say it is, so in fairness I must take their word for it.

Manchester has the second-largest Jewish population in the UK, but I would have to say knowing the ethnic make-up of large sections of that great city I dare say it would be very uncomfortable for an orthodox Jew to walk around even the city centre, in a way that is no way comparable to how confident a devout Muslim would feel.

I am reminded of my home town when the protestant population disappeared not quite overnight but within less than a decade. Everyone will tell you that there was no need for them to leave, any intimidation they might have suffered was low-level and just scumbaggery.

Nonetheless after a few years of that, of worrying about the insults your children would suffer on their way to and from school, the vandalism of your churches and institutions, the general air of not being wanted would soon wear you down till you just quietly packed up and left.

I can’t help but think for practising, and it’s important to stress practising, British Jews, it must be getting kind of uncomfortable in some parts of the UK.

Like I said it’s not Krystalnacht and we’re never going to get there, not in Britain, no chance, but I have to suspect that for the average British Jew it must be looking like things aren’t going to be going in his favour in the next couple of decades and keeping the options open for a departure is something to bear in mind.


107 posted on 02/08/2015 3:02:38 AM PST by PotatoHeadMick
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It should be noted that the headline states Jews aren’t safe here any more referring to 2014-2015, however his website notes it took Simon two years to research the most cost effective and least problematic route to a Visa, so he made this decision based on antisemitism in Britain in the 2011-12, prior to the recent increase in incidents and the attacks noted in the article.

108 posted on 02/08/2015 6:10:37 AM PST by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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To: right way right

2016 cannot get here soon enough!


109 posted on 02/08/2015 12:18:32 PM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

1,168 antisemitic incidents last year in the UK.

Whilst that has risen (thanks to you know who), and is 1168 too many, that is in a country with a population of 62 MILLION, in a nation of almost 300000 Jews (the fifth largest in the world).

That means 0.4% of all UK Jews suffered antisemitism last year. And it means 99.6% did not.

So whilst we must be vigilant and tackle ANY incident, lets be sensible and stop talking about the UK as some anti-jewish hellhole.


110 posted on 02/09/2015 2:41:34 AM PST by the scotsman
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Also according to Sky News, the 1168 includes reported internet/social media incidents. Again, terrible, but trolls not someone who is going to physically intimidate/insult a British Jew.

Final point: whilst the total has worryingly doubled, that means the normal amount of UK antisemitic incidents is 500-550 a year. Again, in a nation of 62m and 300000 Jews. So the normal amount of Jews affected is 0.2%. So 99.8% of UK Jews do not suffer any antisemitism a year.


111 posted on 02/09/2015 11:50:13 AM PST by the scotsman
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