The great institutions of this nation are all falling victim to anti-Semitism
"Hatred of Jews is as old as the pharaohs. But history shows that when the very institutions of a state fail to protect their Jewish minority then the threat starts to apply to the future of the state itself, not just of its Jewish population. Britain is moving with frightening rapidity in this dangerous direction...
The NHS
Around 500 complaints of anti-Semitism relating to 123 doctors were submitted to the General Medical Council in the last two years, according to figures collated by Jewish News. But the even more worrying figure is that the responsible bodies simply shut down 84 per cent of these complaints at the triage stage.
The Health Secretary Wes Streeting has rightly said that medical institutions are “completely failing to protect Jewish patients”. The Prime Minister has ordered a review of anti-Semitism in the NHS from the Government’s independent adviser on anti-Semitism, saying there are too many cases “simply not being dealt with”.
Well, if the Prime Minister does not have confidence in the system how does he think Jewish patients feel?
The BBC
... an earlier Ofcom reprimand in 2022 that the BBC made a “serious editorial misjudgment” at that time when it falsely reported, in a textbook “victim-blaming” incident, that Jewish students on a bus who had been subjected to racist abuse were themselves responsible for what happened.
But the fact is that it isn’t just about the reporting. Two hundred Jewish employees of the BBC and the entertainment industry wrote a letter of complaint to BBC board members in June last year about concerns over bias and anti-Semitism.
The letters contained multiple allegations of anti-Semitism both on and off screen.
The chairman of the BBC Board of Governors Samir Shah answered the letter directly, but dismissed the signatories’ call for a formal investigation...
The police
The decision by West Midlands Police to appease a mob of haters and instead ban the actual victims of hatred – Jewish supporters of the Maccabi Tel Aviv football team in Birmingham this month – has outraged many. A “national disgrace” Kemi Badenoch rightly called it. But these decisions are being made by authoritative bodies which are supposed to protect law and order, not appease threats of disorder.
A cross-party group of current and former parliamentarians, myself included, have written to the Chief Constable for an explanation, after multiple reports that the disorder our police relied upon in Amsterdam last year which has been attributed to Jewish fans of Maccabi was in fact a rabidly anti-Semitic attack orchestrated via a 900-member Dutch WhatsApp group which, according to Dutch court records, was planning their attack well before the match. The West Midlands Police narrative is now being challenged, the Commons home affairs committee is investigating, but there has so far been a deafening silence from them to parliamentarians’ concerns.
Last month the Metropolitan Police arrested a lawyer who was an observer at another hate march and put it to him in his police interview that his wearing a Star of David was provocative. He was detained in a police station for almost 10 hours.
Police forces across the country have failed to stop disruptive and racist weekly hate marches for two years and the Met Police have even defended their decision not to challenge people calling for “Jihad” at a rally in London in October 2023, claiming the word “has a number of meanings”.
Then came the incident last year when the Met Police stopped a counter-protester from walking up Whitehall during a hate march because he was “quite openly Jewish”.
Whilst police have taken no action against numerous hate marchers they enthusiastically proceeded against a Jewish man arrested and charged with racial harassment (eventually dropped after eight months) after he displayed a sign satirising Hezbollah’s then-leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Earlier this year, in one of the worst examples of two-tier policing, Essex Police allowed “anti-Israel” protesters to march through a heavily Jewish residential area of Westcliff-on-Sea near Southend at Passover in April. Chanting “globalise the intifada”, dozens of demonstrators chose to parade not in a town centre but through the residential streets of an orthodox Jewish neighbourhood when Jewish families were returning home from synagogue.
Universities
... According to the Community Security Trust charity, there was a 117 per cent increase in anti-Semitic incidents on UK campuses between 2022 and 2024.
Polling of 1,000 students at British universities conducted by the educational charity StandWithUs UK last year revealed that 29 per cent saw the mass murder and rapes of October 7 as “understandable.” This rose to 38 per cent among students of Russell Group universities. The poll even found that 38 per cent of students agreed that those who publicly supported Israel should “expect” abuse on campus. This increased to 51 per cent of Russell Group students...
The charity sector
Several Jewish charities in the UK are under constant regulatory assault, deliberately targeted by politically motivated complaints and campaigns designed to disrupt and distract their work.
This month I attended a lecture by a Jewish feminist who has campaigned for women’s rights and equality her whole adult life – but after the mass rapes of October 7 she was devastated to find that people she knew in her sector whom she thought were her friends and professional colleagues were totally mute over the rapes of Jewish women and girls, many of whom were savagely mutilated and raped to death.
Many feminists who have spent their lives advocating for women to be “believed” disgraced themselves and their cause when their high principles were found not to apply to the Jewish victims of October 7. Women’s rights groups were largely silent.
The “Me Too” movement became “Me Too – Unless You’re a Jew”.
Local councils
... There are also numerous council boycotts of the world’s only Jewish state when, needless to say, no such attempts are made to instigate a similar boycott against savage dictatorships and murderous autocracies around the world.
Councils have also conflated Jewish events with Israel on several occasions.
Hounslow council postponed a Jewish cultural event organised by the Board of Deputies of British Jews in 2023, citing “safety concerns”, after it had been running for 40 years.
Havering council reversed a decision to cancel an official candle-lighting ceremony for the Jewish religious festival of Hanukkah after a meeting with community leaders following media controversy...
The Courts
When three women were found guilty of terrorism offences for displaying images of paragliders at a pro-Palestinian march in London, but were handed a 12-month conditional discharge after deputy senior district judge Tan Ikram said he had “decided not to punish” the defendants, this sent a message to police not to bother...
Nearly half of Britons think the UK is unsafe for Jewish people in the wake of the Heaton Park synagogue attack, according to More in Common research published this week. Six in 10 Britons are worried about the rise in anti-Semitism, according to the same pollsters.
But I believe that number would be significantly higher if those polled could see Jewish primary schools with high security fences, a heavy security guard presence and armed police patrols. These have had to be a feature of Jewish schools across the country for many years.
Regulators which fail in their duties should be shut down; government funding of councils and universities which fail to protect their Jewish students or fail to follow government policies on countering anti-Semitism should have their funding slashed.
If the courts fail to protect all members of our society judges should be more easily removed. The days of Bishops in the national legislature must rightly be numbered after decades of Leftist posturing. Local councils deciding tin-pot foreign policy on their petty boycotts and tribal hatreds should be banned from doing so, as the last Conservative government tried but sadly failed to do."
