The Last Jews in Britain?

Just last week I ran across the story of the last two Jews remaining in Edirne, Turkey. Quite a bit closer to home is this report from London:

Speaking at a conference in Jerusalem on Sunday, [Director of BBC Television] Danny Cohen said the past year had been the most difficult for him as a Jew living in the United Kingdom.

“I’ve never felt so uncomfortable being a Jew in the UK as I’ve felt in the last 12 months. And it’s made me think about, you know, is it our long-term home, actually. Because you feel it. I’ve felt it in a way I’ve never felt before actually,” he said in a conversation with Channel 2’s anchor Yonit Levi.

Cohen went on: “And you’ve seen the number of attacks rise. You’ve seen murders in France. You’ve seen murders in Belgium. It’s been pretty grim actually. And having lived all my life in the UK, I’ve never felt as I do now about anti-Semitism in Europe.”

Cohen made the comments as one of the international television and comedy professionals participating in a two-day conference at the Jerusalem Cinematheque on the ability of comedy to drive forward social change.

Last month, Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, who is also Jewish, decried the rise of anti-Semitism in Great Britain and called for “a zero-tolerance approach to anti-Semitism in the UK.”

Miliband is going to find that a “zero-tolerance approach to anti-Semitism” simply won’t square with Britain’s touchy-feely multiculturalism. This “New Britain” which turned a blind eye to the mass rape of 1,400 girls by Muslim men in Rotherham is morally and legally ill-equipped to deal with the brutal reality of a sizable fraction of its immigrant community.