The trouble and strife has submitted the following link to Phonybrit: http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e3d8e9b1-8caa-4290-b566-2aff2216016e.
It's an amazingly constructed piece by Howard Jacobson from The New Republic on the rise of antisemitism in England. Of course, the English aren't famous for being big fans of MOT's. Just Wikipedia
Photo: © Jonathan Cape
"York Castle" for proof. And from time to time, this kind of thing flairs up, particularly during rough economic times (hmmm).One reason I've heard is that, like the South Asians, Jews (at least the ones who are not "Jews by Choice") are not *ethnically* English. But Jacobson points to something else at work ... the only standby that it's not antisemitic to criticize Israel (which of course we all agree with, otherwise most of the Knesset would be keen bigots) is falling a bit flat lately. Jacobson's primary example, Carol Churchill's play, "Seven Jewish Children." Why not "Seven Israeli Children"? We'd have to ask Churchill.
Anyway, interesting piece in TNR that you should at least scan when you get a chance.
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