It's not their fault - we made them kill each other

Joshua

Strange you should mention this. In the e-mail that is sent on most days to many thousands of Jewish and Christian Zionists around the world from Britain, this squalid little piece by Humphrey Burton's little girl had pride of place yesterday together with the equally vile leader from the Guardian. The level of anger and concern is growing by the day, and when as eminent a person as Lord Moser can suggest that anti-Semitism in Britain is at its worst level since 1936, these good women and men certainly have a right to be angry and concerned. Melanie Phillips, as usual, put it best the other day when she wrote the following: "But the fact is that there is indeed an otherwise inexplicable malice in the animus against Israel and that it does indeed single out Jews — but as a people rather than as just people. It is in fact but the latest stage in the linear progression of Jew-hatred down the centuries, from theology to race and now to nation. And it is clear that it is the same thing, from key elements of continuity between Jew-hatred today and in the past far more fundamental than the tactic of the boycott. It’s the singling out that is crucial, the fact that Jews are treated differently from the way any other group is treated. It is a prejudice against Jewish peoplehood, denying to the Jews the right to self-determination and to defend their nation that is granted to other peoples and instead singling that nation out uniquely for a campaign of delegitimisation based on lies." Thank the Lord for courageous and eloquent people like Ms. Phillips and Mr. Polland. They are all that stands between the Jews of Britain and total disaster.

guy herbert

Joshua, that's nearly as barking as Ms Burton's piece. Britain's Jews aren't collectively in danger and anti-semitic violence against individuals remains a rarity. The right retort to 'we can't blame the Palestinians' is to say that we certainly should blame some of them for deliberately going out and murdering their fellows. It isn't to blow up the purveyor of such fatuous views into a threat themselves.

Joshua

One of your nation's leading intellectuals, Lord Moser, said the following the other day in a debate in the House of Lords: "It is just over 70 years since I came to this country and I have to say that I've never been more concerned about the rising tide of anti-Semitism throughout Europe, including this country." In late 2006, an All-Party Parliamentary Enquiry into Anti-Semitism reported that anti-Zionism had fueled an explosive rise in anti-Semitism in Britain. In September of 2006, the Times reported that: "British Jews are facing a wave of anti-Semitic attacks prompted by Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Synagogues have been daubed with graffiti, Jewish leaders have had hate-mail and ordinary people have been subjected to insults and vandalism". Some other issues: Jewish students are being regularly threatened, Jewish academics are being harassed, Jews are being compelled to spend precious resources on defending their communities, religious Jews are having to change their usual mode of dress, the Jewish State is being demonised daily by much of the British media, 70% of Brits believe that Israel is the greatest threat to world peace, many Jews no longer feel comfortable living in Britain, physical attacks have skyrocketed, boycotts and the threats of boycotts against Israel and only Israel abound, the Labour Party employed blatantly anti-Semitic advertisements during your last general election, some of the very worst anti-Semitic cartoons since the end of World War II have appeared on a number of occasions in major British newspapers and journals. And all this has occurred during a period of unparalleled prosperity. God alone knows what would happen in the event of a bad recession or something worse. Your denial about the reality of British Jew-hatred is nothing new. Indeed, no nation has lived a greater lie than Britain about its anti-Semitism. The truth is that Britain may have been fighting the Nazis, but at the very same time she was both directly and indirectly collaborating in the Holocaust. The truth is that if the Nazis had invaded a virulently anti-Semitic Britain (incredibly even more anti-Semitic at war's end), there would have been massive collaboration and most British Jews would have been murdered. The truth is that in post-war Palestine the Brits acted with the kind of cruelty towards Holocaust survivors that would have done credit to the SD and SS. The truth is that much of Britain is either working towards the deligitimisation and ultimate destruction of the Jewish State or is utterly indifferent to the prospect. And, as we can see from your post, in the same way some individuals attempt to brazen it out when they have farted loudly and odiferously, so it is with the British and the tsunami of anti-Semitism that is sweeping across their right little, tight little island. It is time the Jews of Britain left before it is too late. Meanwhile, I shall continue to urge Jewish Americans to boycott Britain.

Jeremy Jacobs

Guy Joshua maybe over the top but I don't think he's essentially wrong. Just listen and look to the thinly veiled anti-semitism coming out of the BBC.

Bob Doney

Joshua: "70% of Brits believe that Israel is the greatest threat to world peace" What is your source for this, please Joshua?

ILLANA

What? "Thinly-veiled anti-Semitism at the BBC"! No, surely not! Since when? The BBC? That estimable institution much beloved and venerated around the world for its impartial, accurate reporting? Whose jaundiced journos and puff-piece poltroons present impeccable credentials without the slightest taint of anti-Semitic bias? Get real! The BBC is THE propagandist mouthpiece responsible for much of the anti-Semitism now vengefully spewing across Britain, Europe and wherever the BBC broadcasts its slyly twisted aspersions and deliberate anti-Israel defamations. Forget about Hisbollah terrorists and Hamas murderers....oops, sorry.....the BBC forbids calling a spade a spade......their staff have been instructed to refer to these murderous thugs as "militants", "insurgents" and "freedom fighters". "Thinly-veiled anti-Semitism?"

Hettie

Bob Doney: in October 2003 60% of the British thought that Israel was the greatest threat to world peace.

And this is even more scary:

The one socio-demographic characteristic that stands out is education – the more highly educated respondents (66%) are more likely to perceive Israel as a threat to world peace than those who ceased their studies at an earlier age (“16-20”: 59% and “15 and younger”: 50%).

source: http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/flash/fl151_iraq_full_report.pdf