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Prime Minister Theresa May sends a powerful message to the U.K. Jewish community and Jewish communities around the world.
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Apr-23 8pm SBS-TV: Great British Railway Journeys
Michael Portillo’s Bradshaw-inspired rail tour of London continues in Hampstead, where, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, a ground-breaking Jewish doctor found refuge. Read more
Apr-23 9:30pm SBS-World Movies: The Conference
On Jan 20, 1942, leading representatives of the Nazi regime meet in a villa in Berlin-Wannsee. Read more
Apr-25 11:45pm SBS-TV: Auschwitz – One Day
This documentary tells the story of a typical day in 1944 in the ‘death factory’ at Auschwitz from the viewpoint of victims – but it also allows insights into the mindset of the perpetrators. Read more
Hmmm.
Will be interesting to see how the UK votes on the proposed Security Council resolution on Jerusalem.
Theresa May may talk a good talk but she has not followed it up with any action to support these words. Anti-Semitism has risen by 45% and is, proportionally, the worst of all hate crimes. I can tell you from personal experience that the police and the Crown Prosecution Service do almost nothing to prevent or prosecute it so a relatively new organisation is having to do it instead, Campaign Against Anti-Semitism. This is not the first time either.
https://antisemitism.uk/caa-launches-private-prosecution-against-leader-of-al-quds-day-march-who-we-allege-blamed-zionists-for-grenfell-after-cps-fails-british-jews-once-again/?mc_cid=1d3d4133d7&mc_eid=e0d589500d
Ironically, should I need to make a complaint to the police again, I will have to go with a friend of mine who is the local Muslim representative to the police and local authority, no other minority group has such a representative. In fact, I am a member of the local faith forum which is supposed to do that.
Additionally, there is concern about many politicians, especially the leader of the current opposition, of their attitudes towards Jews and the many anti-Semitic statements that are regularly made in public. In fact, I wonder if we are starting to see similar events such as those which led to Kristallnacht.