Britain once prided itself on being different from France, Belgium and Germany, where Jewish blood was repeatedly spilled on European streets. Now the same contagion has arrived in your green-but-less-pleasant-land. Britain was never free of prejudice, but unlike Europe, its antisemitism never captured a major party or defined the state – until our times.
The Manchester attack was not merely an assault on Jews. It was an assault on Britain’s soul
I write as an American of Jewish heritage, and a lifelong champion of Britain – the nation that turned liberty into law, and faith into citizenship. I write to offer a warning to Britain’s Jewish community: Don’t flee your homeland, once the envy of the world. Stay and fight. And consider adopting a surprising new political home: Reform. You read that right.
For centuries, Britain was the exception. While the Continent descended into pogroms and racial politics, your island defined itself against them. Oliver Cromwell’s readmission of the Jews in 1656, Benjamin Disraeli’s defiant assertion of his ancestry in Parliament, and the Balfour Declaration of 1917: all belonged to a tradition that saw moral worth in liberty and conscience, not blood or creed. That history matters because it makes the present moment incomprehensible. Britain, once the safest home for Jews in Europe, is now importing the very hatreds it once resisted. Antisemitism has returned, not from aristocratic salons or fascist clubs, but from mosques, rallies and campuses. It comes clothed in the rhetoric of ‘decolonisation’ and grievance, but the venom is the same.
Labour will not defend Britain against this threat; it is compromised by it. The Conservatives, for all their residual good sense, are spent. They may be right in instinct, but they have no path to power. The existential requirement now is not merely to be correct but to be capable of victory.
That leaves Reform. It is the only party that names the threat plainly and proposes to confront it. It is unapologetically patriotic, insists on one law for all, and refuses to dress cowardice as tolerance. Unlike the Tories, it has momentum. Unlike Labour, it still knows which country it represents.
For many British Jews, this alignment will feel unnatural, even uncomfortable. It means breaking with decades of habit and association. Yet history offers precedents. Disraeli stood firm for national identity within modernity; Churchill defended civilisation itself against totalitarian hatred. Reform now occupies that same moral ground. Its rise is not the symptom of decline but the reaction against it – the expression of a public no longer willing to apologise for survival.
Labour insists it has changed since Jeremy Corbyn. It has not. Keir Starmer brands Reform ‘racist’; David Lammy smears Nigel Farage with talk of ‘Hitler Youth’. Meanwhile, Farage’s police protection is cut. This is unlikely to be a coincidence. It is the moral inversion of a political class that vilifies patriots while indulging those who despise the nation.
Immigration has become the Trojan horse of national dissolution. Integration has been abandoned for indulgence. Enclaves governed by imported loyalties now effectively exist openly under British law. ‘Community leaders’ broker votes; Sharia councils masquerade as courts; self-styled ‘Muslim patrols’ harass women and dog owners. Officials, terrified of giving offence, look away. The result is not diversity but division – not coexistence, but the slow disintegration of the civic state.
The rape-gang scandals in Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford exposed the same pathology: officials paralysed by fear of being called racist, victims sacrificed to bureaucratic cowardice. That reflex of denial has since metastasised into policy. Islamism dresses cultural dominance as religion, and the British state now grants it a free hand.
Tragically, the value that made Britain what it was – individual responsibility – is in peril. The idea that a man is accountable for his own actions, not his ancestors or tribe, once defined the Anglosphere. Now it is collapsing under imported fatalism and home-grown self-hatred. The Left’s obsession with identity politics and colonial guilt has merged with Islamism’s culture of victimhood. The result is a moral hybrid: a ‘decolonised’ antisemitism, cloaked in academic language, unashamedly vicious.
When Jews are attacked in their synagogues, it is not only a Jewish problem. It is a national one. The ideology that targets them despises everything Britain has built: equality before the law, the secular state, the open society. Antisemitism is the early warning system of civilisational decline.
Britain faces a stark choice: between civilised order and tribal chaos, between the rule of law and the rule of fear. The Manchester attack was not merely an assault on Jews. It was an assault on Britain’s soul.
To defend British Jews is to defend Britain itself. To hesitate is to invite decline.
For British Jews, and for all Britons who still believe in the civilisation their forebears built, the moment for hesitation has passed. It is time to stand firm – to get behind Reform. Whether you are Jewish or not, if you still believe in Britain’s values, in her history and in her future, the choice is plain. The enemy is no longer at the gates. It is already within them. Only Reform has both the moral stance and the electoral strength to drive it out.
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