The Root Cause of the Latest Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in Britain

‘It is presumably because the recently appointed British Government Chief Whip has married into the Jewish faith that is the reason for his zeal in condemning the recent resurgence in antisemitism and, frankly, any initiative that serves to combat this unreasoning hatred, should be vigorously supported. Certainly, the last thing that either Britain, or Europe, needs is a resurgence of a racial prejudice that ended in the indescribable horror of the Holocaust and the extermination of six million souls during World War 2.

However, the energy of the Chief Whip might be better targeted if he were to examine the actual root cause of this latest resurgence of antisemitism and, if so, he might alight upon the fairly obvious fact that the key driver is the policy agenda of the current Israeli government and its continuing acts of illegal expropriation of Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. It is clear that these land-grabs constitute a concerted effort to flout international law and to implement the Likud Charter that rejects the establishment of an independent state for the indigenous Palestinian people.’ Read more