The significantly higher anti-Semitism found among British Muslims is expressed across the political spectrum— from liberals to conservatives
Britain’s lockdown was longer than most due to the country’s eye-watering death toll, but there was one silver lining: For the first time since it was started by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, there was no Al-Quds Day rally in London. Instead, the misnamed “Islamic Human Rights Commission” had to move the May 22nd event online for the masses to fulminate against the Zionist entity.
The annual march, which regularly features anti-Semitic placards, is the most visible sign of the anti-Semitism disguised as opposition to Israel that is rampant across Britain’s left and Muslim community.
That animus has long been a depressing fact of modern British life. But a new report by the Henry Jackson Society’s Dr. Rakib Ehsan sheds light on the negative role of universities as well as the positive effects of greater social integration in dealing with the problem.
Here are four takeaways:
“A December 2019 ICM Unlimited poll found that 18% of the general population felt Jews have disproportionate influence over business and finance,” writes Dr Ehsan. But “in this survey of British Muslims, 34% were of the view that Jews have too much control over the global banking system. And whereas 24% of the general population believed British Jews were more loyal to Israel than to the UK. The corresponding figure for British Muslims, in this survey, is 44%.”
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