http://www.engageonline.org.uk/journal/index.php?journal_id=5&article_id=15


The British Jewish Community is ill equipped to handle the situation
in which it finds itself. It has virtually no tradition of democratic
activism. It continues to rely on discrete diplomacy conducted from
the top to deal with a public debate that requires an effective
political response in which Jews assert themselves as an ethnic
constituency that demands respect for its legitimacy on a par with
other minority communities.

It would be unwise to attempt to predict the future. According to
Rabbinic tradition, after the destruction of the Second Temple
prophecy was left to fools and mad people. However, if the trends
discussed here continue (and no obvious constraints on these trends
are visible on the horizon at this time), it is not unreasonable to
speculate that the environment will become increasingly unsupportive
for organised Jewish life here. If this should be the case, the
question of the long term viability of a robust collective Jewish
presence in the country comes into question. As young British Jews
have to cope with an escalating overhead of public hostility in
negotiating their way through complex cultural roles, increasing
numbers may well choose to immigrate to societies in which they are
not subject to these pressures. Such a possibility should cause major
concern to anyone committed both to Jewish life in Britain, and to
sustaining Britain’s character as a richly textured, pluralist
democracy

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http://www.engageonline.org.uk/journal/index.php?journal_id=5&article_id=15


The British Jewish Community is ill equipped to handle the situation
in which it finds itself. It has virtually no tradition of democratic
activism. It continues to rely on discrete diplomacy conducted from
the top to deal with a public debate that requires an effective
political response in which Jews assert themselves as an ethnic
constituency that demands respect for its legitimacy on a par with
other minority communities.

It would be unwise to attempt to predict the future. According to
Rabbinic tradition, after the destruction of the Second Temple
prophecy was left to fools and mad people. However, if the trends
discussed here continue (and no obvious constraints on these trends
are visible on the horizon at this time), it is not unreasonable to
speculate that the environment will become increasingly unsupportive
for organised Jewish life here. If this should be the case, the
question of the long term viability of a robust collective Jewish
presence in the country comes into question. As young British Jews
have to cope with an escalating overhead of public hostility in
negotiating their way through complex cultural roles, increasing
numbers may well choose to immigrate to societies in which they are
not subject to these pressures. Such a possibility should cause major
concern to anyone committed both to Jewish life in Britain, and to
sustaining Britain’s character as a richly textured, pluralist
democracy

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When the muslim pigs take over the UK, they'll be nostaligic for
the days when they thought the Jewish people where the problem.