Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, Amichai Chikli, says London, governed by Labour’s Sadiq Khan, is currently the world’s most anti-Semitic city.
Chikli believes the tension fostered by pro-Hamas supporters in London, where barely over a third of residents registered in the census are White British, surpasses the tension present in other international cities.
The Israeli highlighted the regular mass rallies in the heart of London since the Israel-Hamas war began following the latter’s terror raid on Israel on October 7, 2023, which resulted in the murder of over 1,200 Israelis. Some of these rallies saw demonstrators call openly for jihad — with the city’s infamously woke police force defending them.
Chikli also cited an incident in which the phrase “from the river to the sea” was projected onto the clocktower of the Houses of Parliament — a reference to Islamists’ goal of establishing a Palestinian state ranging from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea, erasing Israel altogether.
He characterized this as a “call for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the State of Israel.”
An official report from Chikli’s department found “[n]early half of British Jews considered leaving the country due to the documented antisemitism,” and that “60 percent of British Jews experienced or know someone who experienced an antisemitic incident after the war.”
During an interview last month, Mayor Khan, who is Muslim, said his party was “proud to be both anti-racist but also anti-Semitic.” He subsequently attempted to take this statement back, but many observers believed the slip was Freudian.
