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Fury in Britain after Peres says English are anti-Semitic
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Published: 01.08.10, 11:01
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1. Too true
Robyn ,   JHB   (08.01.10)
Too true! When was the last time their queen visited Israel? Cameron is so terribly naive politically. How is Israel supposed to read the fact that Cameron has a NBF in Turkey?? In fact have they ever taken responsibility for screwing up and creating the problem in the 1st place? Had they honoured their word in San Remo things would have looked very different in the area.
2. What ? Peres said something intelligent ?
Yisrael ,   Jerusalem, ISRAEL   (08.01.10)
Yo, look ? It's the Mashiach !! You go boy !
3. Peres wasn't born yesterday
Puh-leeeze!   (08.01.10)
He knows all too well what UK has been up to and how UK has treated Jews for hundreds of years and Israel for over 60. So don't claim innocence. Admit it and try to change it. By denying it, you are only prolonging your anti-Jewish illness in your society and sending out the wrong message to the citizens of UK including the Muslims.
4. Look only at History !
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (08.01.10)
How they acted against the Yishuv . Their limitation of Jewish immigrants , even for those fleeing the nazi murderers . All this culminating with the Exodus . How they tried to pressure Anders to judge those Jewish Volunteers in his army who joined the Jewish defense forces in then called Palestine .
5. Mr. David Cameron Gaza isn't a "prison camp" it is a terrori
Gerry ,   Holon Israel   (08.01.10)
6. if it were not true....
Marcelo ,   Berlin / DE   (08.01.10)
why is that, that always we can read about bycotts form UK? which EU state has persecuted Israel for the Dubai case? which state claimed war crimes against Israel and not the 8 years of hamas rocketing?...give me a break, UK was, is and will always be anti-jew....and if someone tell me "but there are many jews living there"...yeah, well, so was in Germany before WWII too....and??
7. but he is right, UK was and still is very anti
ghostq   (08.01.10)
semitic and anti Israel, with no connrction to Muslims, they never liked jews this isn't new, Peres just pointed the obvious, they r the first to condamn Israel their media full of unbalanced news in favor of the Muslims, they even said NO for the established of Israel, they were racist, one time someone from London (white chritian caucation) she thought I am jewish, so she claimed that I got corupted religion, and I quot: "what makes jews so corupted" that happened this year. sound like the UK full of them and - holocaust denaying, the brits think just because they so call won the war they r anti semitic free. they r rotten people with rotten leaders.
8. The UK, sadly, has become the confluence of three social...
Jehudah Ben-Israel ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (08.01.10)
...trends: 1) Classic anti-Semites 2) "Progressive" anti-Jewish racists 3) 7th century based Islamists. Together the three amount to an UNHOLY TRINITY whose only common denominator is the irrational hate of Jews; Judaism, the civilization of the Jewish people; the Jewish people's non-violent national liberation movement of Zionism; and the nation-state of the Jewish people, Israel. This is Britain today...!!
9. Mr. Peres
Johnny ,   Nazareth   (08.01.10)
Is the most educated politician in Israel, he knows what he's talking about.
10. #7 Ghost,about the case of someone calling you something
Peter ,   Vienna-Austria   (08.01.10)
It's easy to get to know people. I think that's how she came up with that. Perhaps next time you shouldn't wear a keepah while abroad??
11. to #6 it is more idiotcy when brits
ghostq   (08.01.10)
blame Israel for what is british invention aka Gaza, only brits can be so crual, and they ignor hundreds of jew killing, they got the nerve to blame others for something they r doing for hundrets of years. they even killed jews in Israel during the crusaders time, no other crusaderes did that. only brits. all the jews from jerusalem were slaughtered in the year 1125 by the hands of brits. I got plenty more examples.
12. Sadly, Peres is correct
Andrew M ,   Leeds, UK   (08.01.10)
I lived 20 years in the US and 27 years here in the UK. There is no question in my mind that there is at all times a basic undercurrent in the UK that at least holds a negative view of Jews that is completely absent in the US. I believe it is ingrained in the establishment and media and spreads throughout the society from there on. Why? In the US, non-Jewish British ex-pats who have been abroad for several years are far more like most Americans in their innate, positive view of Jews, whereas their countrymen in the UK are as Peres describes. I go out of my way not to mention that I'm Jewish in the UK - never had to do any such thing in the US.
13. Replying to Cameron
Shalom Freedman ,   Jerusalem Israel   (08.01.10)
I take President Peres remark as reply to the one- sided unfair statement of Prime Minister Cameron in relation to Gaza. In this sense it is in place.
14. No. 10 Peter
NYC Girl   (08.01.10)
Save the snarky comments, why don't you? Did you even read what he wrote? He said this woman thought he was Jewish, which would mean he isn't. Not only that, but f he had been wearing a yarmulke, she would have known he was Jew...because he sure as shit ain't the Pope.
15. no Winston Churchill = no Jews
bob ,   New Zealand   (08.01.10)
16. Since my parents, Holocaust survivors, were sent brutally by
Hannah Vilnai ,   Haifa, Israel   (08.01.10)
British soldiers from the port of Haifa back to the killing fields of Europe, only because they were Jewish, it has been clear to members of my family: Britain is contaminated with anti-Semitism. Over the years, the British have only proven this observation correct, and Peres only expresses the feIselings among Jews worldwide, and Peres is a very realistic person. Perhaps the British should be a bit more introspective about its role in the past and one that she continues to play with regard to the national home of the Jewish people.
17. Wasn't G.B. who created Israel in the first place Mr Perez ?
WikiMiki   (08.01.10)
18. Anti-semitisby MP's in UKm
Ram ,   London   (08.01.10)
The British have always been arabists. Just because Peres tells it like it is who are the first to jump to his throat? Of course, as always, the Jews. Either because they are lefties or too scared to upset the apple cart. Cameron was way out of line in Turkey; just a small example. Yes, also UK politicians will sell their souls for the muslim vote and what better way to do it than to expose their inherent anti-semitism to get it?
19. UK - We're not anti-Semitic ....
Terry ,   Eilat - Israel   (08.01.10)
We just don't like Jews.
20. Dr. Jonathan Romain, broadcaster
sophia ,   oxford,uk   (08.01.10)
Dear mr.romain,for your sake choose one job,please.broadcaster may suit better to you than minister of synagogue or even better go politics,they will promote you very quickly,your cynical statement "Britain has supported both Israel and Arab causes at different periods over the last 50 years. There are elements of anti-Semitism but it is not endemic to British society. The tolerance and pluralism here make Britain one of the best countries in the world in which to live''exatly what goverment needs for moral approvement of they policy.
21. Kol Hakavod
Aryeh ,   NY / USA   (08.01.10)
He is absolutely correct. The British are highly anti-Israel and have been so for quite some time. They are very antiSemitic. The way that they dealt with Jews in "Palestine" was horrible on many accounts. Their media and churches are highly anti-Israel. Even the way that they dealt with Jewish teens in the early days of WWII was inhuman. Could you imagine someone else sending armed men into schools to arrest Jewish teens for the crime of being born in Germany, putting them in enemy alien "camps", and then sending them in boats to yet another foreign country?
22. Fury in Britain
antonio branco ,   campinas - brasil   (08.01.10)
can someone define to me what is a coward crusade?
23. The man is wright the Brits hate JEWS.
Eric..d ,   Israel....   (08.01.10)
England is be comeing a Muslim country.The Brits are to busy at the pub eating fish and chips,watching football on the TV .In the meantime the Muslims are takeing over there country.Thats England for you today.
24. Fury in Britain
Bruria   (08.01.10)
There are no-go areas in Britain for Jews but not Muslims. Jews are attacked constantly--by muslims but the British are too afraid to call a spade a spade (or the dirty rotten shovel that it may be) It is not only Jews, I have friends whose family have been in the UK since the beginning of time and they now claim they are foreigners in their own country. Wake up UK you are becoming the first Islamic state in Europe and the idiot Cameron is leading you there by the nose.
25. Israelis voting with their feet
David ,   UK   (08.01.10)
Two things: Firstly more Jewish Israelis emigrate to Britain than British Jews emigrate to Israel - this speaks for itself Secondly Jewish Israelis would understand that they live in the most anti-semitic country in the world if they ever had any meaningful daily contact with non-Jewish Israelis. Indeed Israel is virtually the only country in the world where a Jew is likely to be killed simply for being Jew.
26. Britons, watch SKYNew and the BBC proof that Peres is right!
David ,   Karmiel, Israel   (08.01.10)
The British people live in fear of Muslims. They are terrified the Islamists in their midst will riot if they are criticized. They, the British, made their beds, now the must lie in them! PM Cameron calls Gaza a "Prison Camp' and kowtows to to Turkey's PM but doesn't have e the gall to criticize Turkey for is support of the IHH - a recognized support of Al Qaeda and then criticize Pakistan for not doing enough about terrorism! What about the Armenian Genocide Mr. Cameron? Regarding the Jews in general, the British have a long history of anti-Semitism. Many have forgotten their history. Queen Anne expelled the Jews from York and the Post War British Government blockaded the Palestine and even want to send the Holocaust Survivors back to the Concentration Camps! Rothschild was prevented from taking his seat in Parliament because he would not swear an on the on the Christian Bible! There are so many instances of anti-Semitism in Britain which is evident in the Palace itself. So indignant Britons, please prove President Perez wrong. Oops, you might upset the Muslims if you do.
27. Bob, # 15 No Winston Churchill = no UK
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (08.01.10)
28. 17 , wikimiki . Wrong , they opposed this
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (08.01.10)
Peres with S not Z
29. to #17 actually the germans, the colonies
ghostq   (08.01.10)
provided not only thecnology but job opertunities, the only thing brits created is the pali Israeli conflict. they even built 3 big prisons to jews at that time, the third one was in cyprus. go check it. brits did everything to prevent jews from having a state.
30. so true....
k.j ,   Paris   (08.01.10)
I used to live in England for many years (my fatherĀ“s work forced us to go there) I agree with President Peres. the british are being over taken by muslims. It is a fact. Visiting places inBritain you imagine you have traveled to pakistan . Yes they are pandering to the muslim votes but the same is happening all over europe or should I say Eurabia. It is okay for David Cameron to be honest as he says, but, dare Israel tell the truth as it sees it, the brits go up in arms. Very double faced people in Britain.a trait of theirs. The day i left Londonistan was the happiest day of my life.
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