Whether its people out in the streets celebrating the attacks, or football fans waving Free Palestine flags not long after they happened, or politicians with 'you brought this on yourself' equivocation, we need to acknowledge we have a big anti-semitism problem in the UK
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This isn't just about parties on the Edgware Rd. The account of a major political party, the editor of a mainstream media outlet, national politicians from mainstream parties condemning Israel, an MP turning up and taking photos at a pro Palestine event immediately afterwards
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There is a large group of people in the UK who can find a way to minimise or explain away or justify or outright ignore the suffering and humanity and barbarism toward Jewish people. And doing so carries no social risk whatsoever.
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And this is from people from all walks of life, all social classes, all cultural and ethnic backgrounds, all educational backgrounds, all political hues. It is not a fringe thing. It is right there in our faces but we don't talk about it. Instead, we turn off replies.
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We have sleep-walked back to anti-semitism as a norm in the UK. We said never again but we didn't keep that promise.
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@michael_merrick
Thank you.
It's why I left the country of my birth, and which I love - 7 generations British - and came to love in my ancestral homeland, 18 months ago. The huge rise in pervasive antisemitism was no longer tolerable.
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@michael_merrick
No. We have a respect for a Palestinian's right to survive.
The world is not reducible to simplistic reactions as much as you wish it to be.
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