Britain has reached the point where Jews, one of its oldest and most established minorities, increasingly question whether they still have a future in the country they call home.
Very well written and tragically correct. We are a very small minority and its getting smaller year by year. What possible future is there here? Surely the message is clear now? If my maternal grandparents in Berlin in the 1930s had only acted and left they would not have perished in the Shoah.
"Not perfection, certainly not acceptance without conditions, but stabile" Jews deserve a ceptance WITHOUT conditions. I hate to say this but England has always been anti semitic. The government has always loved Arabs.look how they have always treated Israel.
Where will the British Jews go? They will be admitted to Israel, of course, but many of them will not be comfortable there. Israel has a stark secular-religious divide. And its politics are generally cehtre-right.
Other than Israel, there is America. Forgetting about admission requirements for a moment, there are antisemitism problems there too.
From what I read, some Latin American countries are becoming more philo Semitic. Are British Jews, who are middle class in the UK, ready to become semi literate taxi drivers and manual labourers in Latin America? (I assume most do not speak Spanish well enough to practice their chosen field in it.)
Yes, Jews have historically become refugees and moved from place to place, but are hundreds of thousands of British Jews ready to do this again?
Panama has a thriving Jewish community and the mayor of Panama City is Jewish. There is no problem being visibly Jewish in Panama. It's also not that difficult to get residency and there's a Jewish fellow who runs Plan B Expat for those seeking residency in Panama or Paraguay. My husband and I are residents but we're also residents of Mexico and that is where we spend part of the year. Mexico City also has a thriving Jewish community.
My husband and I have been learning Spanish and I'm sure it's easier than Hebrew! While we're not practicing Jews or visibly Jewish we decided to get both of these residencies for a few different reasons. Latin America and Mexico may not be for everybody but these two residencies are not that difficult to get and I sleep better at night knowing I have places to go. Canada is not much better than Britain!
I agree. Canada is not much better than Britain. And I already speak Spanish, among other languages. I can't leave Canada for another 6 years (custody), then we will see.
You could still line up a residency or two in the meantime. The requirements keep going up so it pays to get at least one even if you never plan on moving or can't move for a number of years. We haven't become non-residents of Canada but at least we know we can.
I was lucky enough to be brought from Scotland to the USA by my parents in the early 80’s. I still feel secure here, but for how long ? Today, the only place I’d go would be Israel.
I am a British Jew, and I am staying here in Britain because Nazism, which had infiltrated the European Services and The British State, has been defeated. We Jews are needed and appreciated where this matters, amongst the Military Classes here who know the real enemy of Freedom is Nazism. For Jews are brilliant Anti-Nazis, and always were. Just to say also, Britain is doing quite well, even if the Left-narcissists supporting Hamas are loud right now. Maybe too, the rest of the World has technologically and economically caught up with Europe, and this has put financial pressure on The State. But Britain remains very innovative, and we remain ahead, if only because English is the true Global Language of Business and Science. Different for Jewish Families certainly, but I am staying. A proud British Jew.
I had just arrived in Egypt before the 7th October massacre. While in Egypt I saw similar airbrushing of Coptic Christians who had also built up so much that was good there. But I also bought a book there about Jewish women whose families had been pushed out “Zikrayat”. This prepared me for seeing the same building of discrimination here. Not new. Glad you've battened down the hatches
Superb. The only thing that I would add is a notation that physically leaving the UK, (or perhaps the US too?) is not the only metric of Jewish decline. Demographics are the better barometer. Are Jews coming to the UK? Are they marrying and having children? Are they forming new businesses? Or, in the alternative, are they staying away? Is the community primarily one of elderly pensioners? Or, at the very least, going in that direction noticeably?
That is, in my mind, the real metric. Physically picking up and leaving a place is hard. In the absence of a concrete threat of serious violence, most people will not take such a step. But demographic decline requires no effort. To the contrary, it is easy. And, for that reason despite how hard it is to measure, it is the better data point. And I suspect that in the UK, it is pointing in a thoroughly negative direction.
Britain is being ethnically cleansed by the islamic leftist alliance
Very well written and tragically correct. We are a very small minority and its getting smaller year by year. What possible future is there here? Surely the message is clear now? If my maternal grandparents in Berlin in the 1930s had only acted and left they would not have perished in the Shoah.
The loss to England will be felt. What a horrid state of affairs that the PM and the crown allowed.
"Not perfection, certainly not acceptance without conditions, but stabile" Jews deserve a ceptance WITHOUT conditions. I hate to say this but England has always been anti semitic. The government has always loved Arabs.look how they have always treated Israel.
So true, real history proves it
Where will the British Jews go? They will be admitted to Israel, of course, but many of them will not be comfortable there. Israel has a stark secular-religious divide. And its politics are generally cehtre-right.
Other than Israel, there is America. Forgetting about admission requirements for a moment, there are antisemitism problems there too.
From what I read, some Latin American countries are becoming more philo Semitic. Are British Jews, who are middle class in the UK, ready to become semi literate taxi drivers and manual labourers in Latin America? (I assume most do not speak Spanish well enough to practice their chosen field in it.)
Yes, Jews have historically become refugees and moved from place to place, but are hundreds of thousands of British Jews ready to do this again?
Panama has a thriving Jewish community and the mayor of Panama City is Jewish. There is no problem being visibly Jewish in Panama. It's also not that difficult to get residency and there's a Jewish fellow who runs Plan B Expat for those seeking residency in Panama or Paraguay. My husband and I are residents but we're also residents of Mexico and that is where we spend part of the year. Mexico City also has a thriving Jewish community.
My husband and I have been learning Spanish and I'm sure it's easier than Hebrew! While we're not practicing Jews or visibly Jewish we decided to get both of these residencies for a few different reasons. Latin America and Mexico may not be for everybody but these two residencies are not that difficult to get and I sleep better at night knowing I have places to go. Canada is not much better than Britain!
I agree. Canada is not much better than Britain. And I already speak Spanish, among other languages. I can't leave Canada for another 6 years (custody), then we will see.
You could still line up a residency or two in the meantime. The requirements keep going up so it pays to get at least one even if you never plan on moving or can't move for a number of years. We haven't become non-residents of Canada but at least we know we can.
I was lucky enough to be brought from Scotland to the USA by my parents in the early 80’s. I still feel secure here, but for how long ? Today, the only place I’d go would be Israel.
I am a British Jew, and I am staying here in Britain because Nazism, which had infiltrated the European Services and The British State, has been defeated. We Jews are needed and appreciated where this matters, amongst the Military Classes here who know the real enemy of Freedom is Nazism. For Jews are brilliant Anti-Nazis, and always were. Just to say also, Britain is doing quite well, even if the Left-narcissists supporting Hamas are loud right now. Maybe too, the rest of the World has technologically and economically caught up with Europe, and this has put financial pressure on The State. But Britain remains very innovative, and we remain ahead, if only because English is the true Global Language of Business and Science. Different for Jewish Families certainly, but I am staying. A proud British Jew.
Please stay
I am doing. The door maybe barred, and the phones bugged, but I am staying!
I had just arrived in Egypt before the 7th October massacre. While in Egypt I saw similar airbrushing of Coptic Christians who had also built up so much that was good there. But I also bought a book there about Jewish women whose families had been pushed out “Zikrayat”. This prepared me for seeing the same building of discrimination here. Not new. Glad you've battened down the hatches
Absolutely. Thank you for your support. Best wishes.
Truly depressing. We're never missed until we're gone. Most frightening; the intermarriage rate around the world.
Superb. The only thing that I would add is a notation that physically leaving the UK, (or perhaps the US too?) is not the only metric of Jewish decline. Demographics are the better barometer. Are Jews coming to the UK? Are they marrying and having children? Are they forming new businesses? Or, in the alternative, are they staying away? Is the community primarily one of elderly pensioners? Or, at the very least, going in that direction noticeably?
That is, in my mind, the real metric. Physically picking up and leaving a place is hard. In the absence of a concrete threat of serious violence, most people will not take such a step. But demographic decline requires no effort. To the contrary, it is easy. And, for that reason despite how hard it is to measure, it is the better data point. And I suspect that in the UK, it is pointing in a thoroughly negative direction.
The Muslim population in the UK is over 6% today and growing daily.
The Jews in England have a choice today they did not have 78 years ago.
Time for decision making 🤔
There is a saying among Holocaust survivors: "The pessimists fled and the optimists stayed."