Anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom

The injustice, hatred, unfairness and non-acceptance of Jews as a religious community, has led to a long suffering of Jews throughout the world; that began with the Roman conquest of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. Since their dispersal, the Jews lived in various countries and endured suffering, subjugation and a treatment as second-class citizens. Anti-Semitism resulted Theodore Herzl visualizing a Jewish homeland (as the answer to the centuries-old Jewish problem) and the formation of the World Zionist Organization in 1897. After lobbying with various powers of that time, in 1917 Jews were able to secure the support of the British through the Balfour Declaration that pledged the support for “a national home” for the Jews in Palestine. The Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate upon Palestine speeded the Jewish immigration to Palestine. When the Declaration was issued the Jewish population in Palestine was less than five per cent. Gradually a large number of Jews, mostly from Eastern Europe and Russia, immigrated to Palestine especially following the raise of Hitler in Germany and Mandate Palestine became the destination for a large number of Jews who were fleeing the Nazi rule. Britain which stood for the Jewish cause, facilitated the creation of Israel as solution to the ‘Jewish problem’ as it was envisioned by the community, has failed in providing safe heavens to the believers of community (questioned for loyalty due to Israel, still