It’s clear that the focus of Islamic anger against Jews worldwide is Israel’s existence. Looking into the future as far as one can, it’s reasonable to believe that as long as there is a Jewish state in the Middle East, defending itself against Arab and Muslim aggression, that anger will continue. A pattern has already been established of violent demonstrations, perhaps coordinated internationally, whenever Israel goes to war. And each time, certainly in Britain, there has been a hike in attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions.

With Muslims allying with anti-Israel and antisemitic elements in western society, what we are seeing is the globalization of the Middle East conflict with Jews everywhere now coming under attack.

As Muslim populations in Europe increase and Islamists grow correspondingly in confidence and power, there will undoubtedly be more of these attacks. What is troubling about the Guardian article is that it shows many Muslims in this country ignoring normal party political lines and organizing with an international focus. Characteristically, their demands are more to do with expelling infidels from what they regard as Muslim lands thousands of miles away than with the ordinary concerns in a western democracy. Muslims are organizing as a single issue bloc to support candidates whose policies and rhetoric objectively support the jihad and with it the demonization of Israel and Jews. And the lesson is not being lost on even mainstream politicians ambitious for power.

In these circumstances, will governments in Europe that are locked into mutually reinforcing policies of Muslim appeasement, denial and political correctness address the novel problem of the persecution of a religious minority by an alien religion aided and abetted by post-religious secularists? Will the West at last wake up to the fact that the Jews’ war of survival is its own war of survival? No one knows the answer to these questions, but Jews will not hang around to find out. For though there may be, as you suggest, national variations, Jews will not endure the slow tidal wave of hatred that is coming.

The result will be that Europe is depleted of its Jewish populations. Can there be any other conclusion?

“Poor Britian … falling into the hands of xenophobic religious fanatics who sole interest is the destruction of Israel rather than building a better live for themselves”

Who exactly are you referring to there? What proportion of British Muslims?

How on Earth is Britain “falling into their hands”???

This is a highly irresponsible and inflammatory headline – and article.

a) You first base your assertions on an article by ONE individual who is representative of nobody
b) Altikriti only mentions Israel right at the end of his article
c) He says only that “the Lib Dems have made the better pronouncements when it comes to Palestine and Iraq, albeit to a lesser extent on Afghanistan” – where is the “anti-Israel” agenda here???? Or is being anti-settlement and in favour of the creation of a Palestinians state “anti-Israel” in your eyes?
d) Can you provide concrete evidence that EVERY ONE of the candidates backed by the BMI exhibit “VIRULENT hostility to Israel”? Or is it perhaps rather the case that many are e.g. simply opposed to continued Jewish settlement building?
e) Have the BMI embedded vote-determining microchips in the heads of all UK Muslim voters?

That headline is an absolute disgrace, Robin.

But most of your audience above seem to be lapping it up. The question as ever is: do they gullibly actually believe all your insinuations, or are they just using such “information” as further ammunition with which to deflect criticism of Israel?

And then there are posts that have little to do with Israel …

Empress Trudy Says:

“I’m afraid the UK is only a few years away from either an open pogrom or legal expulsion of all Jews.”

I mean: come on. This is simply ridiculous!

That said: obviously there can be no defending the frankly deranged Tonge.

p.s. “Tonge was reprimanded for her remarks but not expelled from the party.” Only “reprimanded”? Strange how you fail to mention that she was sacked from her front-bench position in the Lords! Yes, that’s not enough in my book either – but why omit the sacking?

To Paul Freeman and others: Paul, I disagree. Let me explain! Britain is a sickening immoral (No!, rather amoral) place in the “West”. It might or might not persecute its Jews in the future. Of course I agree with these sentiments and worries expressed. What I sharply contest is the fact that EVERYBODY represents the same mentality by and large in the West, or even Europe. Look across the North Sea (No, I’m not talking about France, but even THEY are better in this respect – abject self-emasculation, rampant appeasement, antisemitism among the elite and lower etc. etc.), but there IS I know for a fact a plucky little country similarly or more! overwhelmed with Islam like England but they are not in the mode of surrendering just yet. I am confident that they will win this battle! The country is nominally 41.000 square miles, but more than 8000 is water of it. It founded New York City and there were stickers everywjhere when last year I spent almost 2 months in this Euro state. It might survive the Islamic tsunami – might!, unlike Britain. Perhaps the Jewish masses could try there or Israel!

“Cry the beloved country” – a country which did so much originally for Israel, which sacrificed so much in WW II, falling into the hands of xenophobic religious fanatics who sole interest is the destruction of Israel rather than building a better live for themselves. Britain is at risk of becoming like all the other failed Moslem countries.

And it’s not a “regime” – it’s a democratic government, and Israel has a free press and independent judiciary as well – somethig sadly lacking in all its neighbours. Language matters.

Do Israel’s neighbours adhere to international law? Where is your outcry?

That’s called hypocrisy.

Your comment is a tired and textbook example of the kind of bias and self-exculpatory hatred that Jews have routinely to deal with today. Allow me to deconstruct it for you.

(1) “Unconditional support for the Israeli regime was always going to be a source of increased anti Semitism”

(a) “Unconditional support”. I wonder, have you ever met a Jew? Do you know anything about them? I fancy not, otherwise you would know that there is no people on earth more disputatious and more self-critical where ethical issues are at stake.

To claim, therefore, that Jews in Britain support every policy of every Israeli government is pure fantasy. What most Jews do unconditionally support, on the other hand, is the right of the Jewish People to a homeland in what, since 1948, has been Israel. In other words, Jews here support the right of the Jewish People to their own state in exactly the same way as Italians, French, Germans and every other people unconditionally support the right of their fellows to their own country.

What do you find wrong with that?

(b) “regime”. I’m sorry, if you don’t know much about Jews, you don’t seem to know much about the form of government found in Israel. Like Britain, Israel is a democracy where every citizen, Jew, Christian and Muslim, believer and non-believer, has the right to vote. Israel’s government, therefore, is not a “regime”, because it can change with each election – just as ours can here. Or would you call Britain’s government a “regime”?

(c) “always going to be a source of increased anti Semitism”. When China’s brutal repression in Tibet and elsewhere is exposed is it “always going to be a source” of increased hatred of ethnic Chinese living in Britain? When Saddam was killing Kurdish people was that “always going to be a source” of violence against Iraqis here? Why, therefore, only in the case of the Jews is it “always going to be a source” of attacks when the Jewish state follows policies you don’t like?

Don’t you mean rather that antisemites, people who have an a priori hatred for Jews, are always going to take anything as an excuse to vent that hatred, just as you’re doing now?

(2) “The only reason it is not far worse than it is now is because the Zionist media have been able to shape public opinion by hiding much of the reality on the ground in Palestine”

Well, here we are deep into antisemitic territory, and you have just proclaimed yourself to readers of this blog as a certifiable bigot. Permit me to explain.

There is no “Zionist media” in Britain, and asserting that there is buys into one of the staples of antisemitism: that Jews are an international conspiracy secretly controlling governments and the media.

No, I assure you, there isn’t. And, as far as any media “hiding much of the reality on the ground in Palestine” is concerned, I’m afraid the sad truth is that hardly a day passes without Israel being in the news, and every story, directly or implicitly, makes the same case that Israel is a rogue state oppressing the Palestinians.

If you don’t believe me and still cling on to your offensive slurs, just try and think of a single instance or a single story you’ve read or heard that has reflected well on Israel. I challenge you to give me an example of one. And if you can’t, what does that say about your view of a “Zionist media” shaping public opinion?

(3) “If the Zionist lobbies in the UK supported Israel only if it complied with the international consensus and international law, and didn’t commit such gross heinous crimes then Britain would be a much more harmonious place.”

No, sorry, once again you’ve got it the wrong way round. Allow me to rephrase it for you:

“If the Arab and Muslim world and people in the UK supported the Palestinians only when they comply with the international consensus and international law and accepted the right of the Jews to live in their own state in Israel and didn’t commit such gross heinous crimes as they have been committing from day one of Israel’s existence then the Middle East would be a much more harmonious place and everyone would live in peace.

I think that has a much more truthful ring to it, don’t you?

Shlomo it isn’t defeatism, it’s realism. Not something most American Jews would know anything about, since 78% of you voted for an anti-Israel president. Not all of us live in a parallel reality.