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spectator.co.uk - 1/19/2009

The mild-mannered British desire for the annihilation of Israel

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The British sociologist Frank Furedi reports  what he has heard from Britain’s educated classes since the Gaza crisis began: I am standing in a queue waiting to buy a train ticket from London to Canterbury. A well-dressed lady standing behind me informs her friend that she ...

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The anti-Semitism of the British elites
TigerHawk — If Melanie Phillips is only half right, this is pretty chilling stuff . I wish I understood why the perception of Israel and the Jews is so different in Europe than in the United States. Sure, I understand the long history of it over there, but Europeans (including, for these purposes, the British) have changed their attitudes about a great many things in the last 100 years, including South Asians, Africans and Muslims. Why not the Jews? 0 Comments: ...

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Theo Spark — The mild-mannered British desire for the annihilation of Israel. All part of the Islamification of Britain. Looks like we may need to take up arms to put things right. ...

"An elderly Jewish friend from London"
small dead animals — ... at a gathering recently, and said someone asked: “Politically speaking, who are our friends?” Nobody had an answer, and the consensus was that Britain’s Jewish community felt lonelier than within living memory." Posted by Kate at January 19, 2009 10:19 AM

Proper British anti-Semitism
Israel Matzav — ... “religion’s enemy.” Those who are highly educated have their own pet prejudice. One of my young colleagues who teaches media studies in a London-based university was taken aback during a seminar discussion when some of her students insisted that since all the banks are owned by Jews, Israel was responsible for the current global financial crisis. Writing in the Spectator, Melanie Philips blames the silence of Britain's senior politicians for encouraging the anti-Semites to come out of the woodwork : What is so terribly shocking is that in the face of this unprecedented wave ...