I am an 18-year-old student, who is Jewish. I'm not in any way ashamed of this, and I wear a kippah just about everywhere I go.
However, I am starting to get the sense that Great Britain as a country does not think I should be proud of who I am. Anti-Semitism is on the rise (I have been the victim of anti-Semitic abuse myself), and the so-called 'liberal left' seems to think that I can't see through their masquerade, pretending that their anti-Israel opinions represent the truth, and that they hold these views purely out of solidarity with the Palestinians, and not at all because they think that Jews are rich puppet masters who control the world. I see a left attacking Israel with increasing vitriol, and increased fervour. I see a left which now seems to believe just about any of the lies said about Israel. Amongst the left, the sick, twisted, evil and untrue notion that Israel took part in ethnic cleansing in 1948 and since seems now to be accepted as truth and gospel, despite there being not a single shred of evidence in favour of these beliefs (please don't quote Deir Yassin at me. The crimes that took place there were horrible, and should (and have) never been repeated by people fighting for an independent Jewish state. I'm not justifying what happened, I'm claiming it was an aberration, an isolated point in history). I see a left which seems to be wandering into the trap set by fundamentalist (I deliberately mean to exclude moderate, liberal and
secular Muslims, most of whom seem to be wise to this threat, and jolly nice people as well) Islam.
However, it is not this that upsets me. It is not that there is a minority of people who direct vitirolic hate towards Israel and the Jews. This has always and will always be the case with a minority group. What upsets me is that people are increasingly going along with this madness. It is becoming more and more accepted that the views of the left are virtuous and that all the left is doing is standing up for the little guy. There is a sense among the general public that those who are repeatedly and blatantly lying about imagined crimes Israel has not and will never commit are merely standing up for the Palestinians. Within the mainstream media (I mean the BBC, the Sunday Times, I don't consider the Guardian to be mainstream any more) there is a growing sense that these so-called defenders of the Palestinians are correct. That is what really worries me.
I am genuinely scared that soon a situation arises in this country where those who stand up for Israel are treated as extremists, cranks and lunatics, on the same level as someone who were to defend Bashar-al-Assad. When this happens, I'm out of here.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/douglas-murray/2013/01/should-jews-leave-britain/