re: #11 opinionated

A top UK Foreign Office official has been arrested on suspicion of an anti-Semitic outburst at a gym, the Daily Mail reported Monday.

Rowan Laxton, who is head of the South Asia Group at the Foreign Office, was watching TV reports of the IDF offensive in Gaza while on an exercise bike at a gym when he was allegedly heard shouting: “F**king Israelis, f**king Jews,” and saying that IDF soldiers should be wiped off the face of the earth, the UK newspaper reported

[Link: www.jpost.com…]

He only expressed out loud the opinion of the entire British Foreign Office.

Ploome and I were discussing British antisemitism last night. There’s this article from al-Guardian:

Rise in antisemitic attacks ‘the worst recorded in Britain in decades’British Jews’ safety fears grow after Gaza invasion

Police patrols have been stepped up in Jewish neighbourhoods following the most intense period of antisemitic incidents to have been recorded in Britain in decades.

Safety fears are so acute that reports have emerged of members of Britain’s Jewish community fleeing the UK with antisemitic incidents running at around seven a day this year.

guardian.co.uk