My shame over Jew-hating Britain
by John Hale, TCW:
THIS is something I never expected to feel: ashamed of my country.
There are individual incidents that have taken place under the banner of the UK that one could be ashamed of, or particular groups that are shameful for our country. But this is neither of those. It is shame that I am a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
What triggered this feeling? What tipped me over the edge, from concern or reservation about what has been happening in the UK recently, to complete shame to be associated with it?
This article was the tipping point. It appeared in the Jerusalem Post and described how two Jewish brothers, survivors of the October 7 Supernova festival massacre, were detained and abused for two hours by Border Force officers at Manchester airport, just because they were Jewish and from Israel – apparently ‘to ensure they were not going to do in the UK what they were doing in Gaza’.
We see Team Hamas weekly flaunting their aggressive anti-Semitism and banners calling for genocide of the Jews of Israel. There has been a factorial increase in anti-Semitic violence and threats and vandalism since October 7. There has been a complaint that NHS staff abused and mistreated a young Jewish patient (and I know there are doctors’ social media forums where anti-Semitic abuse and propaganda is rife). Jewish citizens fear for their safety and are afraid to walk the streets even during the day. We have Islamist and leftist scum working in concert to pour out dismissive minimalisation of the Hamas atrocities, and promote anti-Israel conspiracy theories and pro-Islamist apologetics to point the finger of blame for more than 1,200 murders and hundreds of kidnap victims at Israel and the Jews themselves.
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