[IsraelTimes] An estimated 70,000 people participated Sunday in London’s March Against Antisemitism, organizers said, calling it a wake-up call for the country amid surging anti-Jewish attacks.
The march from the BBC to Parliament Square, organized by Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) and backed by other Jewish communal organizations, was addressed by, among others, UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, and Richard Tice, deputy leader of the anti-immigrant party Reform UK.
Representatives from the ruling Labour government were conspicuously absent, despite an invitation delivered weeks ago, CAA said.
"The government’s scandalous decision not to send someone to address the Jewish community at a time of the worst antisemitism in the UK in living memory will do nothing to reassure British Jews that this government has their back or even understands the scale of the crisis," CAA said.
Precisely what they intended to communicate to both British Jews and those who hate them. Haviv Rettig Gur, senior analyst for the Times of Israel, responds to that hate in the link at the bottom of this post.
CAA said the march started at the BBC "because you can’t tackle antisemitism in Britannia without addressing the problem of the BBC," which pro-Israel groups have accused of anti-Israel bias in its reporting on the Gazoo...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
war.
Footage from the rally showed the crowd awash in UK and Israeli flags. Dignitaries leading the march hoisted a large banner reading: "Britannia, stand up for your values."
| The event was held a day after London police said officers arrested nearly 900 people at a demonstration in support of Paleostine Action. |
Separately, the group Scotland Against Antisemitism said Sunday it delivered an open letter to First Minister John Swinney, warning that recent statements on Israel by the Scottish government could exacerbate antisemitism and increase the risk to the Jewish community.
It said the letter so far received some 3,000 signatures, including from lawyers, politicians, educators, clergy, students, and citizens in Scotland and elsewhere.
The group noted that there are some 5,000 Scottish Jews, less than 0.1 percent of the population, but that hate crimes targeting the community accounted for 17% of all religiously motivated crimes last year.
Earlier Sunday, CAA published a study showing that more than one in five British adults now hold entrenched antisemitic views, nearly double the level recorded four years ago. Nearly half of respondents (45%) said they believe Israel treats Paleostinians like Nazis treated Jews, a sharp rise from 33% last year. Among 18- to 24-year-olds, that figure reached as high as 60%.
The Community Security Trust, a nonprofit providing security protection to British Jews, said last month that it had recorded 1,521 antisemitic incidents in the UK between January and June 2025.
The figure represented a 25% drop from the all-time high of 2,019 incidents in the same period of 2024, but was the second-highest total ever for a six-month period, with more than 200 incidents a month.
UK museum postpones exhibition on Jewish life due to ‘potential risks at a sensitive time’
[IsraelTimes] A UK museum has postponed an exhibition on Jewish life in a seaside town due to “potential risks at a sensitive time,” Britain’s Telegraph reports. The UK outlet says the Russell-Cotes Museum in Bournemouth had been set to open an exhibition on Jewish life in the town between 1880 and 2020.
When reached for comment by the newspaper, the museum says while the exhibition will not open in November after an assessment of the potential risks, the institution is working to reschedule it.
“Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum is an important heritage asset housing culturally significant art,” the museum says. “In planning all exhibitions, we carefully assess any potential risks. We recognise this is a sensitive time and due to requirements related to this event, the museum has decided to postpone the exhibition and is working with the organisers to reschedule it for a later date.”
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