Britain’s former chief rabbi has warned that Jewish people are thinking about leaving the country because of anti-Semitism.
Jonathan Sacks told the BBC on Sunday that for the first time in the 362 years Jews have been in Britain many question whether it is safe to raise children here.
He singled out Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn for failing to address anti-Semitic attitudes in the main opposition party, saying Corbyn would pose a danger as prime minister unless he expresses “clear remorse” for past statements.
Sacks said “when people hear the kind of language that has been coming out of Labour, that’s been brought to the surface among Jeremy Corbyn’s earlier speeches, they cannot but feel an existential threat.”
Gordon Brown, the most recent Labour Party leader to serve as prime minister, added his voice to the chorus of party figures calling for Labour to endorse an internationally agreed-upon definition of anti-Semitism rather than the more limited one now in place.
He told the Jewish Labour Movement conference the change should be made immediately.
“It is needed now to deal with practical threats, to confront gathering dangers and on-the-ground realities of very real, week-by-week threats to Jewish communities that demand an unequivocal response and unqualified resolve,” he said.
The party’s executive committee is set to discuss its definition of anti-Semitism in the coming days.
Corbyn has said anti-Semitism has no place in the Labour Party.
(AP)
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A definition of anti-Semitism? “Hating Jews more than the normal amount.” England ousted Jews once. There’s no point in leaving England. Where are they going to go? The state of Israel? Seriously. “B’kol dor omdeem olainu l’chalosaiunu, v”HKBH matzilainu m’yodom”.
Yidden should leave the Not-So-Great Britain because it has become a cesspool of islamist terrorism. Even the mayor of London is a islamist terrorist sympathizer. Most of Europe, France, Germany, England, Sweden, etc. are heavily infested with these vermin. Yiden! Leave now before it’s too late!!!
1) The new education curriculum, in its own right, is sufficient reason to get out of UK.
2) Unlike Obama who was just a sick clown, Corbyn is at least as dangerous as Hitler, if not more so.
to mr “arizona”
the last time people were told not to leave europe and dont go to israel(palestine)
it didnt end well
so keep your bright comments to yourself
while you blog from the comfort of the USA
@yossies @arizona
USA is also won’t be safe in the long run. Hashem is gathering his people in Eretz Yisroel. The time of the redemption is very close. In just a few years from now the majority of Yidden will be in the holy land for the first time since the Babylonian captivity 2500 years ago. Secular Zionism also won’t be around for long. Israel will soon have a frum majority (already now almost 45% of all Jewish schoolchildren are either Haredim or Dati). Yerushalaim is again the world centre of Torah. Time to come home and be a Jew in a society of Jews.
To Mr. YOSSIES: Jeremy Corbyn may be a lout, but Adolph Hitler he is not. Stop the drama queen schtick. I spent nearly eight years living in Israel; couldn’t get out soon enough. The Torah with all the treifkeit is buttul b’shishim. BTW, I’m not blogging. Anyway, what do know of my comfort or lack thereof?
anti-Semitism today is primarily a function of the left-wing
Dear Rabbi Lord Sacks:
I respectfully disagree with your premise. I only have to look at my family to know that their heads are buried so deep in the sand it’s surprising they can breathe at all. British Jews didn’t directly feel the government-sponsored antisemitism of Europe in the 1930’s. They still believe the monarchy can save them, that the British “honour code” is in play.
Some British Jews – those who have already decided on Aliyah – will speed up the process. The rest, the vast majority, will choose to ride it out, believing that Corbyn is a flash in the pan. We have 6,000,000 reasons why this annoying little man will succeed in destroying a large portion of Jewish life as his predecessors in Europe have done before. He is no flash in the pan…. he is evil, dangerous, & is capable of learning from his heroes’ mistakes. But British Jews are too comfortable to believe him. They haven’t learned from history.
147,
that is overdone
Corbyn dwells in some place other than this planet