How can anyone claim surprise? Jews have been warning of this for years. We all knew it was not a question of if, but when
The announcement here in Britain that Prime Minister Keir Starmer would recognize a Palestinian state in September was hailed by some in the political and media elite of Britain as “brilliant diplomacy.” To us Jews, it felt like something else entirely — a reward for terror, and a capitulation to the extremist mobs that have filled our streets every week since October 7, chanting for an intifada and jihad.
It confirmed a truth many of us have felt for months: that Britain is becoming too weak, too frightened, to confront the cancer of anti-Semitism and extremism growing within it. More and more, rather than stand up to those who hate us, our leaders are trying to appease them.
That is the context in which every horror of the past weeks in Britain must be understood. The murder of two Jews in Manchester as they walked to shul on Yom Kippur. The banning of Jewish soccer fans from traveling to Birmingham — Britain’s second largest city — because the police “could not guarantee their safety.” A Jewish man arrested in central London for wearing a Star of David. These are not isolated incidents. They are symptoms of a country that no longer knows how — or no longer has the courage — to protect its Jewish community.
We are told that Britain was shocked by the attack in Manchester. But how can anyone claim surprise? Jews have been warning of this for years. We all knew it was not a question of if, but when.
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