Tel-Chai Nation

The Observer reports that anti-Semitism has reached new levels of horror:

Police patrols have been stepped up in Jewish neighbourhoods following the most intense period of antisemitic incidents to have been recorded in Britain in decades.

Safety fears are so acute that reports have emerged of members of Britain's Jewish community fleeing the UK with antisemitic incidents running at around seven a day this year.

Around 270 cases have been reported in 2009, according to figures compiled by the Community Security Trust (CST), the body that monitors anti-Jewish racism, with most blamed on anti-Israeli sentiment in reaction to hostilities in Gaza. Attacks recorded during the first Palestinian intifida of the late 1980s averaged 16 a month.

If my estimates are correct, looks like the Observer couldn't resist trying to blame the Israelis for the hostility rather than the Muslims in Gaza. Yech.

Scotland Yard is understood to have placed prominent Jewish communities on heightened alert, while the Association of Chief Police Officers' national community tension team is responding to intelligence by issuing weekly patrol directives to chief constables instructing them of threats to Jewish communities in their areas.

Incidents recorded by the CST include violent assaults in the street, hate emails and graffiti threatening "jihad" against British Jews. One disturbing aspect involves the targeting of Jewish children. A Birmingham school is investigating reports that 20 children chased a 12-year-old girl, its only Jewish pupil, chanting "Kill all Jews" and "Death to Jews". In another incident a Jewish schoolgirl reported being bullied at a non-Jewish school because of the Gaza conflict.

CST spokesman Mark Gardner said the current fear of persecution was so profound that some members of the Jewish community were seeking to emigrate to countries where they felt more secure, such as Israel, the United States or Australia. "I know two families, one of which has already moved and the other which is in the process of moving, who don't see the point of putting up with this," he added.

It's time for British Jews to move on out of the blighty. London's Tower Bridge has truly fallen down, and few seem to care, if the following is any indication:

Veteran director and actor Steven Berkoff recently explained the anti-Israeli reaction over Gaza by saying: "England is not a great lover of its Jews. Never has been".

I didn't think so. And as Melanie Phillips is reporting, the Royal Court theater house isn't making things any better by producing a play that's yet one more blood libel. Also today, the Daily Mail (also via Melanie Phillips) reports that a Foreign Office "diplomat" named Rowan Laxton mouthed off with an anti-Jewish tirade while using an exercise bike in a gymnasium. See what kind of disgusting, off-their-rocker people are littering that place? It's just not worth your time to be there.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, londonistan