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A The Jewish writer is afraid of the British that the country is no longer safe for the British Jews, as data had experienced one of the three anti -sematic incident last year.
Ben M. Writer of Freeman, Jewish: An indigenous people and acclaimed Jewish pride trilogy, told Independent He was in the process of applying for Israeli citizenship and Plan to go to Israel after spending most of his life in Britain,
He said that after spending months to worry about his safety in London, a difficult decision came. “Every time I left my house for almost a year after October 7, I wondered if I would be attacked or knife.”
Mr. Freeman said In view of Manchester Aradhanar On October 2, attacks that they believe that other people will now have “more serious conversations about leaving”.
He said, “This is really – especially if you have a family – it is difficult to know when and what to do,” he said, in the 1930s, the Jews living in Germany faced similar views. “But people are talking. I know everyone is a version of the conversation.”
He said that “or not whether they do not really do this step or not, Britain needs to achieve their work together,” accusing the “gradual governments” to ignore the reasons.
Sri Freeman, who is now located in Scotland, stated that the activist march “made him as a Jew”, “feels unsafe to proceed about the capital city in which I lived in which I lived”.
He said that it was a “tragedy” that the Palestinian movement “is not the purpose to support him, and indicated Hamas and Hizbullah iconography in the demonstrations.
“I paid the council tax. I paid taxes to be there. And I could not go around the city because I was nervous,” he said. “Some people may think that ‘not such a big deal’ [but] This is a big thing when you are made to feel discomfort. It wants you to reduce yourself and shorten yourself, and I really do not believe in doing so. ,
“I don’t want to hide. I want to be able to wear my symbols of pride proudly.”
Mr. Freeman said that he “always felt very British”, voted and “participated in my civilian duty”. But now he feels that he is being “forced”.
He said that a minority of fundamentalists was still “threatening Jewish life” in Britain, and a friend was physically attacked a friend a month after the October 7, 2023 attacks in London.
“It is a stain on the United Kingdom that Jews are, and it’s not just me, looking to leave many Jews. It should be made crazy with people in Britain because what is happening with the country that our citizens want to leave?”
“For whatever reason, our fear is not talked about. We are accused of being the best history, and [at] The worst we accuse of the imperialist and fascist and harassment and Nazis … and then something like Thursdays [2 October] Happens.”
“While it is surprising that in 2024, the government promised £ 54 million for Jewish security, I need to withdraw one step and ask myself why a population of 300,000 people needs safety to go or go to school.”
On the decision to move, he said: “I cared for [about Britain]And I still care … but I have to make this option because the country no longer feels safe. And on the positions of power – they either do not care or they are ignorant and they do not understand the status of matters. ,
He said: “There is a place that I can go, yes, my issues and my threat, but a place where I can go where I will be a majority and I will be in my indigenous land.”
The Executive Director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR), Dr. Jonathan Boyd told Independent While the Jewish community “is strongly inherent in the UK” and “seems to be broadly speaking, that it is home in most cases”, events such as manchester stabbing can affect a comprehensive tendency of British Jews leaving the country.
He said, “Before we really know what the response is. Obviously, at this time, I think everything is very raw.”
“I think wherever people were on that question, in the matter of thinking about first, ‘I want to leave or go Israel,
He saw from his recent figures based on a survey of 4,822 British Jews, that there was no clear movement on the scale yet.
Dr. Boyd recognized comparative figures from France, with a spike in the French Jews in view of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo and Hyperor Kosher supermarket attacks.
“I can only really speculate, but that kind of empirical indicator would suggest that there will probably be a reaction [in Britain],
Nevertheless, he says, “The Jewish community is very flexible here. It is very strongly embedded in the UK. It has been here for a long time … Despite the instability of the last few years, Jews are showing a strong degree of flexibility, and it will act, as an imbalance for apprehensions and approval.”
Their latest dataBased on a survey conducted in June/July 2025, the British Jews saw a high probability that they would go to Israel permanently in the next five years.
Dr. Boyd said that there was a sharp increase among the British Jews, thinking that it was a problem.
“It really jumped a lot since 7 October [2023] The attack, “he said.” It is clear that this is an issue and it is very broad … a third [32 per cent] British Jewish adults say that at some point during the calendar year 2024, they personally experienced a Jewish incident. ,
He said that young and orthodox people were reporting events at the “higher average rate”.
Their data showed that confidence in institutions was generally low, with only the legal system and scoring above the average of Parliament. Emotional attachment for Israel increased from 38 percent to 45 percent in 2022, although 40 percent said the war weakened their attachment and collided with their Jewish values.
Small Jews were more likely to be important for Israel, and criticism of Israel’s conduct Gaza The more widely growing, shown the data.