Leigh http://www.jta.org/user/profile/5317 en-us zsilberman@washingtonjewishweek.com Copyright 2012 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Stick to what you do best - the news - and can the editorial content. Your list is embarrassing. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Antisemitism in England is far from new. Have a look at the Wikipedia article, "History of the Jews in England" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_England which describes a history of expressly anti-Jewish laws, massacres and a nearly 400-year expulsion; "Constantine's Sword," a book by ex-priest James Carroll, (also made into a movie,) about the origins of antisemitism in the Catholic church; and George Orwell's article, "Antisemitism in Britain." http://orwell.ru/library/articles/antisemitism/english/e_antib Here's a quote: "There has been a perceptible antisemitic strain in English literature from Chaucer onwards, and without even getting up from this table to consult a book I can think of passages which if written now would be stigmatised as antisemitism, in the works of Shakespeare, Smollett, Thackeray, Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and various others." Orwell wrote his essay in 1945, during World War II, and he observed that native antisemitism was stirred up by anxiety over the war. Similarly now, during a time of economic uncertainty, antisemitism is likely to be exacerbated - in Britain and elsewhere. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00