As Britain sees a record surge in antisemitism since the Hamas-led October 7 attack and Israel’s subsequent war on the Gaza-ruling terror group, Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli charges that London is now the most hostile city to Jews in the West.
“Today in the UK, Jews are hiding their Jewishness, the mezuzah, the kippah,” Chikli tells a group of European journalists in Jerusalem, according to The Times of London. “They know that if they speak Hebrew on the subway they might get hit. And this is the reality for Jews in Europe.”
Chikli, a member of the ruling Likud party, hails the UK as “a center of Western civilization, the country of the Magna Carta and one of the leading democracies of the West with a rich legacy of freedom of speech, of human rights.”
“But it seems what is happening now in Britain is that freedom of speech no longer exists,” he adds.
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