There’s a very interesting piece by a writer called the Kosher Kockney (KK) that’s doing the rounds of social media at the moment. It’s examining and trying to explain why Jews who originally hail from Eastern Europe, the Ashkenazim are more fearful of movements of the political right and less fearful of Islam than those Jews who came originally from Middle Eastern and North African Sephardic and Mizrachi communities. I have to agree with KK that it is quite understandable that those Jews who fled from Nazi Germany and its allies might see nationalist groups, even decidedly non-racist civic nationalist groups, as being their biggest threat. You only have to look at 20^th century history to know and understand that. European Jews experienced a situation where Europe took a nationalist turn in the mid 20^th century and the result of that turn was to culminate in horrors of The Shoah.  It is therefore somewhat natural that European origin Jews would be somewhat wary of many forms of nationalism. However Jews who have lived for centuries under Islamic rule may take a different view and although wary of European nationalist groups, especially ones based on race, are also much more aware of the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalism.

Anyway here’s Kosher Kockney’s thought provoking article.

Jewish perspectives: Allegiances, fears, apprehensions and Tommy Robinson. Please have a read and share if you think relevant.

Before I start this, please realise that our common enemy is trying it’s best to bring conflict between the various groups that oppose them. Using both the media and politics. They are pitting conservative Brits against each other, Patriots against Jews, Jews against Patriots and now Jews against Jews. The more we are divided the more they win.

I’ve written this piece as a way of trying to understand each other’s perspective and to come together against the thing trying to destroy us and our values. I am going to try and explain this as clearly as I can. It’s a complex subject and it takes a little bit of an open mind to take in. So I guess, please don’t comment until you’ve read all of it. Peace and love. There are different types of Jews. Our families and ancestors have all been persecuted throughout history in one form or another. All cross different continents. In my view. As crazy as it might sound, Jews that come from a Middle Eastern heritage (Iranian, Lebanese, Syrian etc) will be happy to side with people like Tommy. This is because in places like Iran for example, the Iranian Jews were executed, tortured and exiled by empires and Dictatorships like the Islamic Republic and Muslim Brotherhood. The people that did the persecuting, have values that align with the ‘Left’ we see nowadays. The Mullahs and Ayatollahs instilled a fear into these Jews that is replicated by the ‘Left’ we see today, the ones that side with the Pro-Hamas supporters.

It was the British that helped build a haven for Jews in the Middle East, in the ancestral homeland of Israel. On the other side of the Jewish spectrum. The Jews that have a European heritage (Ashkenazi) have had a fear instilled in them of the ‘Right’ purely because of the Nazi party being extremely “far right” So they are more likely to be intimidated with the idea of siding with someone that has been painted by Main Stream Media as ‘Far-Right’ – I know that Tommy is not ‘Far-Right” and this is a mirage the media and government are using to try and control through fear. He even did a test, in an independent study recently that put him more central than right. It’s on the internet, look it up.

It sounds backwards but it makes sense to see why we are seeing more Jews with Middle-Eastern heritage being thankful for Tommy and more European heritage Jews not wanting to be associated with it. Now here’s my view: I have Jewish heritage that was persecuted from both the ‘Left’ ideologies (Soviet Communists/Middle Eastern Islamist dictatorships) and also the actual ‘Far-right’ (Hitler and the Nazis). Both sides. So for me it makes sense in this day and age to accept all help and to fight back against the current common threat. A threat to British values and Jews in general.

Right now, we have British patriots wanting to do what they can to help Jews. The ‘Left’ have abandoned all Jews and are now siding with the very enemy that wants our eradication. That’s the current climate. Currently, for me, there isn’t a ‘Far-Right’ threat out in the open (unless you genuinely are a Nazi with swastika tattoos, then yeah f*ck you) but we know that’s not what a British patriot is.

True Brits hate the Nazis. So with that in mind, there definitely is such a thing as a huge ‘Far-Left’ threat and it’s looking very close to what the 1930s ‘Far-Right’ looked like.

This is where I think a spanner has been in thrown in the works and a lot of people are freaking out with blurred political vision. So I don’t care about any old prejudice fears us Jews might have had. Those are out the window. The fear of “Never Again” is there, but it is coming from a different source, a common enemy we all share. I am grateful for all help we have been getting against the Islamist extremist threat that is pushing for our annihilation in any way they can. However, please understand from the moment a Jew is born, we already have it in our DNA that someone is going to want to wipe us out. It is down to our ancestral persecution experience that determines which side of the spectrum that might be. So I can understand why some Jews (especially from an Ashkenazi background) might show some hostility and not quite trust a hand that offers them help if they have had fear of the ‘Right’ since the 1930s.

I don’t think that’s the right attitude for any Jew to have right now, in my opinion. But can you see it from their point of view? So I’m asking you not to tar all Jews with the same brush. We’re a very mixed bunch. I am proud to be British and I’m proud to be Jewish. I am proud of the partnerships we have built together. My great grandfather escaped persecution and came to this country 90 years ago, with an attitude to integrate as much as he could, share British values and to make sure his descendants would show the same gratitude. That will never change for me and my two little girls will do the same.

We want the old London back. We want the pro-Hamas mobs to get off the streets. We want to be able to take our children to watch the Christmas lights turned on (even if we aren’t Christian ) purely because we Jews have always learned to respect the culture of the land and the traditions of the place we call home. Any person or ideology that threatens that traditional culture, or tries to push their own onto others is not behaving in a manner that should be tolerated. All Jews believe that, I can assure you.

We Jews love you and we will always make sure that we stand next to you when fighting this evil. There just might be some that are a little more shy than others. Jews and everyone else: Come together, do not squabble and fight amongst ourselves. The enemy will laugh at us and think they are winning.

We have differences but we have a common ground in the threat that looms over us right now. A message to other Jews: There will be Jews here that will say things like “you don’t speak for this Jew” – no you’re right, I don’t. Which is why I stated this was just my view on it. There will be Jews that disagree with me. Of course. We’re Jewish for G-d sake, that’s what we do best, we disagree! but what we also do BETTER is, despite our disagreements, we come together for a common cause and we fight like f*ck to win. What’s that cheesy as sh*t saying? United we stand, divided we fall? Yeah that.