I am a Jew and I am scared. Will I be the last one in Britain?

I am a Jew. Both my parents were Jews which makes me ethnically a Jew. My wife, my children and grandchildren are Jewish. My religion? I am a Jew Lite.

I am also, and as importantly, a Brit. My nationality is British. I am a Londoner. I pay taxes in this country and vote for my preferred candidate in national and local elections. I have a British passport. My first language is English. Compulsory National Service was abandoned before I became eighteen, but had it not been I would have served in the British armed forces and possibly faced enemies in Cyprus and parts of the Middle East and South East Asia.

Having watched and experienced events unfolding over the last half century or so I, as a Jew, am scared; really scared.

I am frightened, appalled and increasingly angry at the ever increasing, vicious and spiteful attacks on Jews and by proxy on Israel.

When I was growing up during the 1950s, the memory of the Holocaust was still raw and the lucky few who survived bore witness to the ultimate bestiality of Jew hatred and the unimaginable horror that had occurred. It seemed that the world had learned its lesson and that anti-Semitism was finally over, dead and buried, never to rise again.

And I believed it, because during my teenage years I very rarely encountered any personal hatred. I convinced myself that the disease of anti-Semitism had been eliminated and that the centuries-old oppression that Jews had laboured under across Europe, North Africa and Middle East was finally a thing of the past.

Wrong! I could not have been more so. The Jew hatred virus had not died. Rather, a mad, rabid, highly transmissible variant has evolved, labelled anti-Zionism.

Last month a convoy of black SUVs bedecked in black, red and green PA flags and manned by Jew haters made its way along the Finchley Road, one of London’s main arteries. This road goes through numbers of areas with relatively high numbers of Jews. The car occupants shouted with the aid of loud hailers, threatening slogans encouraging the raping of Jewish girls, killing of Jews and the obliteration of the Land of Israel and ethnically cleansing Jews from their homeland.

Some, condoning this toxic behaviour, will say I should not worry because it is only a response to the dreadful suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza, subject to disproportionate Israeli bombing aiming to kill as many innocent Palestinians as possible. Once there is a ceasefire it will all calm down.

But it has not. Rather it continues to get worse with Jews being physically and verbally attacked. The unquestioned lies persist.

The most worrying sign is that the Jew hate obsession has opened up a new front. Having long ago penetrated our universities and created a febrile and intimidating environment, intensely hostile to Jews and Israel, the disease is now infiltrating our schools. The Jesuit dictum was ”Give me the child until he is seven and I’ll give you the man”. Children are now being exposed to the vicious doctrine of Jew hatred. Some would call this brainwashing.

In a Leeds school the police were called to protect a head teacher, Mark Roper, after he referred to an incident where a pupil brought in and waved a Palestinian flag. He is quoted as saying during a school assembly that “some might interpret this action as a call to arms and feel threatened and unsafe”. On social media, an avalanche of cries of Islamophobia echoed and demands that heads must roll trended. Apologies were demanded and meekly given.

This represents a stunning victory for the many Jew haters. It signals that it is acceptable to migrate anti-Semitism from the mosque to the classroom. It legitimises the slanderous and libellous lies underpinning the ever-growing Jew hatred movement, no matter whether those Jews are in Leeds or Jerusalem.

Had the Israeli flag been brought in by a Jewish pupil, then that individual would almost certainly have suffered verbal abuse and also probably physical assault. Further the media would have almost certainly have chosen to question his/her patriotism, asking where their primary loyalty lay? Was it to the UK or Israel? But nobody dared question the loyalties of the pupil who provocatively waved the Palestinian flag. Conclusion? Jews have dual loyalty. Plucky pro-Palestinian Muslims are being discriminated against and insulted because they are a minority. This despite the fact that Muslims outnumber Jews in Leeds by 7 to 1. (ONS)

No matter how much of worth Jews have contributed to humanity, it counts for nothing to the Jew haters. They close their ears to any facts that detract from their unquestioning world view that Jews are evil.

Lest we forget: throughout history anti-Semitism has been the norm, with relatively short periods of calm between pogroms. What is happening today in most parts of the world is likely to be merely a reversion back to that norm. Fortunately, unlike earlier times Jews now have somewhere that will always welcome them no matter how bad things become in their country of residence. An attack on Israel is therefore an attack on all Jews everywhere.

Over recent years the number of my Jewish friends has steadily decreased. Gladly the grim reaper has not claimed them. Rather they have “made aliya”, that is moving to the “Land of Israel”. In practice this proves to be a complex and bureaucratic process for Jews, contrary to popular perception.

I wonder, how long will it be until I am the last Jew left In Britain? Will I be the one that turns the lights off?

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