Jew-hatred now marked ‘Made in Great Britain’

October 7, 2023 will, like Kristallnacht, live forever in the Jewish collective memory, not just for the proto-genocide of 1,200 Jews in Israel but also the ensuing celebrations across the western world. The slaughter was ominous enough for British Jews, but perhaps worse was the realisation – confirmed by the huge Hamas-supporting rally in London on Saturday – that “globalised intifada” was now being stamped “Made in Great Britain”. That country’s mass-importation of Muslim migrants has now yielded a deadly harvest of anti-Semitism, with the grapes of wrath being pressed and distilled into a burning brandy of Jew-hatred.

Two years on from October 7, Friday’s murderous assault on Yom Kippur worshippers at a Manchester synagogue was of that same vintage. More will follow. No organised terrorist-synchrony is now necessary. Indeed, for Islamists, the opposite is probably preferable. Signs of terrorist organisation can be detected by intelligence agencies, even the half-wits of MI5 who are usually more obsessed with the almost imaginary mists of flag-waving “far-rightery” than with the suicide-vest brigade. With Manchester as template, individual Islamists will intuit their own personal roles in the improvised terrorist war against Jewish communities everywhere. A comparable DIY insurgency is already underway in Israel, a join-when-you-want, kitchen-knife mandate that needs no organisation, signals, leaders or weaponry, with the irresistible promise of paradise and 72 virgins each for all he-martyrs. She-martyrs get, what? Nobody knows: poor dears, probably Sadiq Khan.

In almost every European country, Muslim populations outnumber the Jewish populations by at least ten to one, and in many mosques and madrassahs of Islam the message is the same: The Jews are the enemy. Meanwhile, what were once Christian-lands are rapidly becoming Dar Al-Islam, lands of Islam, just as “Palestine” once was and will be again, inshallah! For in the Islamic remit, no land that has ever been ruled by Muslims may belong to any other religious jurisdiction. Once means forever, a theological injunction that applies equally to Cordoba as it does to Jerusalem and Jaffa, and soon (if not already!) Bradford and Birmingham. Yet for western secularists, who consider that “tolerance” is far more important than “social compliance” or “national identity”, especially when allied with the magic wand of “anti-Zionism”, protecting the rites and rights of Islam has total priority over any native values.

Though that final term has little enough meaning in an increasingly-deracinated England, which is almost eradicating its cultural identifier, Guy Fawkes Night for a Hollywood version of Halloween, while the grey squirrel that is the American “guy” has displaced bloke, chap and fellow. Even in the pages of The Daily Telegraph, the bowdlerised Yankee term “bathroom” is commonly used to describe a bathless toilet. No surprise, then, in a land of endlessly-diluted identity, that to many British liberals, any coherent vehemence seems quite attractive. Perhaps this is why The Independent newspaper could report the outright lie that Israeli soldiers were recreationally shooting Palestinians according to different body-parts on different days. The head one day, the shoulder another, the testicles another, body-snooker in the great Jewish Game of Pot-a-Palestinian.

Why would British Jews not despair? Culturally and economically, they have enriched Britain more than any other immigrant group. Quick pen-picture: On the British High Street, Burton’s, John Collier, Samuel’s Jewellers, Tesco, Topshop, BHS, Miss Selfridge, Marks & Spencer, were all started or owned by Jews. Late twentieth century English drama virtually depends on Jews: Peter Shaffer, his brother Anthony, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arnold Wesker, and after them, what’s left? No, the tank was not “simply” inspired by Winston Churchill, but was largely dreamt up and subsidised by a Jewish banker, Royal Naval Air Service officer, war-hero and patriot, Bertie Stern, who personally subsidised the project. As for Jewish philanthropists and intellectuals, OK, how long have you got?

This demographic, hard-working, inventive and patriotic, has been under sustained cultural attack by Islamists and the British Left over the past two years. Manchester revealed what’s next on the agenda. Many British Jews are preparing to pack their bags, knowing that it was merely a signal. Others will follow. A few taunts on a London street will add another psychological notch on the ratchet. Then a pause, combining expectant fear with growing carelessness: After months of nothing, time for another martyr to step forward with a car, a motor-bike, a screwdriver; nothing that might warn the police. For at worst, Christians fear violence generally: but Jews expect it, personally.

In the meantime, and quite naturally, the bobbies have been busy chasing white speech-criminals like the “evil” Lucy Connolly. Her fate was not random: in a shocking intrusion into judicial independence, the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper specifically instructed judges to imprison, not fine, white offenders of “the hate-speech laws” after an ethnic-Rwandan slaughtered a little girls’ dance-class. Cooper issued no such instructions for Islamists, ever. Her subsequent fate? Onward and upward to the Foreign Office, being a barrel well-stocked with Arabists.

And what of the well-named Jihad al-Shamie, the hero of Manchester, and star-rapist as well, so aligning him perfectly with the Hamas rapists of October 7? After that glorious slaughter of hapless revellers and rockers, jihad’s proud father Faraj Al-Sharmie posted variously: “The scenes broadcast by the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades of a group of fighters storming an occupation army camp… prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Israel will not remain….they are Allah’s men on earth. …May God protect Palestine and its heroic people. God bless you ..what comes after October 7th is not like what came before it.”

Quite, as his dear son would in due course so brilliantly reveal.

There are millions of similarly anti-Israel immigrants across Europe, and a great many numb-skulled, racist natives who admiringly ape their virulent bigotries. In Britain, this derangement now serves as a national suicide-note, written in many prime ministerial hands – of Heath, Wilson, Blair, Cameron, Johnson and now, most gloriously, Starmer – with the long-term price being the possible expulsion/departure of the most vibrant, economically vigorous, culturally-imaginative and thoroughly-assimilated yet still-identifiable immigrant-component Britain has ever known. After Britain, what next? France? Then maybe Belgium, and with Ireland already teetering. So there it is – a triumph for cultural fusion: National Socialism’s Final Solution, but now in suitably jihadist instalments.

Kevin Myers is an Irish journalist, author and broadcaster. He has reported on the wars in Northern Ireland, where he worked throughout the 1970s, Beirut and Bosnia.