The Cons and Pros for this Jew living in Britain :
The cons -
1/ The Israeli as apartheid smear, which is factually untrue
2/ The ludicrous boycott of Israel brigade, who've forgotten their history of Jews and boycotts
3/The attempts to arrest, in Britain, Israeli politicians for 'war crimes'
4/ The increasing anti -Israeli (& like 'mission creep', anti -Jewish) attitude, such as one of these 'boycott Israel' weeks (yes a whole bloody week) at our daughter's university.
5/ The apparently changing attitudes among some in the established C of E, which is taking a more hostile approach to Israel, but forgetting the atrocities against Christians in Syria.
6/ The hysterical reactions of the far left atheists in respect of demonising Kosher slaughter and male circumcision.
The Pros -
1/The UK is a fine place to live, most people are pretty decent and like Jews & are supportive of Israel
2/ Jews are allowed to live in freedom and practise our faith in liberty
3/ Our family was welcome in the UK, the British are quite tolerant our family were able to rebuild our lives after the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Iraq.
4/ Alas, whilst there are people who have particularly strong views on Israel, but they are a vocal minority and who have different reasons for attacking Israel, such as the far left, the far right & sections of the Islamic community. No excuse for not challenging these views, but it would be wrong to think Britain is in the grip of an anti-Semitic epidemic.
5/We've contributed a lot to British society over 350 years & continue to do so (e.g. the head of the supreme court, the speaker of the House of Commons & the leader of the opposition are all Jewish, along with major contributions in arts, science, entertainment etc).
6/Our cooking has lightening up Britain
Nice one- especially noting that the Israel haters are a small vocal minority, who make it out as if their word is gospel and it is what the public really think.
ReplyDeleteWell put- it is the minority who are hateful toward Israel and an even smaller anti-Jew brigade who are spiteful toward Jews.
ReplyDeleteI agree; it is only the far left of the Guardian, the far right and certain mad mullahs who have a problem with Jews in the UK. The thing is not many people know a lot about Judaism, so Jews need to be equipped to educated others about ourselves. I get this being in Somerset- yesterday someone though I was from Cyrus when I said I was Orthodox -wrong Orthodox I guess (:
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