Emmanuelle Ducros 8:56 a.m., March 7, 2024

Every morning after the 8:30 a.m. news, Emmanuelle Ducros reveals to listeners her “Journey into absurdity”, from Monday to Thursday.

Bad times in Britain.

Like ours, the country is experiencing a violent surge in anti-Semitism.

The British media are warning.

The Standard, a conservative daily, published an article two days ago with the shocking title: Jews in London plan to flee the capital in the face of a huge wave of anti-Semitism.

It recounts Jewish fears in the United Kingdom, faced with an explosion of anti-Semitic acts.

A survey shows that half of the capital's 200,000 Jews are considering going abroad.

It is factual, anti-Semitic acts are exploding in the United Kingdom.

More than 4,100 anti-Semitic incidents recorded in the country in 2023. They have doubled in one year.

A misleading figure.

It was a surge in a few months, after October 7.

In the last quarter of 2023, anti-Semitic acts experienced a staggering increase of 600% compared to the previous year in Great Britain.

The Standard article describes a threatening climate.

Jews in London are experiencing massive intimidation, the article says.

There was, says the author, a persistent hostility of certain communities towards the Jews.

It turned into acts of violence, on the sidelines of demonstrations in support of Hamas which are openly anti-Semitic in London.

A disinhibition which continues with intimidation and death threats against Jewish parliamentarians.

Several spoke to the BBC last week.

An MP resigned because he feared for his life.

In the words of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, “mob rule is replacing democratic rule.”

Anti-Semitism has infiltrated daily British life.

At the beginning of February, a London theater had to apologize after a one-man show actor chased Jewish spectators out of the theater, to boos from the audience.

And then there is this other article that makes you shudder, published two days ago in the Telegraph.

He compiles testimonies from authors and literary agents, explaining that it had become extremely difficult to publish authors with Jewish-sounding names or books with a “Jewish subject”.

Literary London, says an editor, has become a forbidden zone for them.

And at university, it's the same thing.

As with us, what the United Kingdom is experiencing is a combination of anti-Semitism.

There is an old far-right anti-Semitism, heir to Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British fascist party.

There is also imported Muslim anti-Semitism, which is poured out into hateful preaching in London's mosques.

And then, there is opportunistic anti-Semitism, which is plaguing the ranks of the British left.

Labor has been shaken by the proliferation of complaints about anti-Semitic acts and words.

Until Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the party until 2020, who laid flowers on the grave of one of the Palestinian terrorists from the 1972 Munich Olympics. All this resurfaced in London, like a large overflowing sewer.