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A certain type of rather mild anti-semitism is indeed traditional in Britain, as John Derbyshire has discussed often in his columns.

But then the British traditionally didn’t like anybody outside Britain, the various British nationalities (English, Scots, etc.) didn’t like each other, those from one part of England disdained those from other areas, etc. Anti-semitism may thus have been largely just another variety of anti-foreignerism.

Certainly Britain has been more pro-semitic in its actions over the past 300 years than any other European nation, except perhaps the Netherlands. (OTOH, the Netherlands behaved abominably in this regard during WWII).

As did the British, treating Jews (during WWII)as enemy aliens; in many cases imprisoning them without charge or statement of implication of threat as required by British codified and common law and of course the shamefull sealing off and agressively acting to prevent the Jews of Europe from escaping Nazi persecutions, in their efforts to reach the British held Mandate for Palestine (the Jewish Homeland), via a blockade that took many British Navy fighting ships and large committments of personnel, at the hight of the war, when the fighting was fiercest and every man and bit of equipment was needed and being begged for from the U.S.A via lend lease. A blockade that extended AFTER the war; agressively preventing the remnant of surviving Jews, those who managed to live through the Shoah(the Holocaust) from reaching Palestine and those intercepted; placing those Jews in POST WAR concentration camps in Cyprus and in Eritrea and other places in Africa. A dark and shameful blot on the British nation’s history, not particularly bright anyway. I am very much aware of the United States poor behavior in this time, but THAT is another thread. This one is solely bought and paid for by the Brits.