Most English and British people (England and GB/UK are not the same btw) actually couldnt care less about Israel or Palestine. Most are long sick of it. The people who bang on about it are a (very) vocal MINORITY.
And that minority is anti-israel. NOT antisemitic. I am fed up with Jewish-American commentators who equate leftwing UK criticism of Israel with anti-semitism. Its a cheap, nasty trick. And lazy. The vast majority of this vocal minority may be loudmouth idiots, but they arent antisemitic. And I say that as a British Conservative.
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, Trump and Clinton Jewish?......
The comments here about Britain are simply obnoxious. They are a disgusting slander on the vast, vast majority of the British people. Who 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 British people are antisemitic OR that the jews of Britain are victims of mass cultural or physical antisemitism is a downright and disgusting lie.
The "UK" of which you speak will -- in our lifetimes, perhaps -- cease to exist. London will be majority Muslim within 10-15 years, and 30% of England's population within 20 -- over 3 million now, TRIPLED in just the past 25 years. The noble past you describe is all factual -- and completely irrelevant, as it was not populated by Islamic savages.