Don’t Let America Become a UK-Style Antisemitic Hell-Hole
We’re headed in the same direction.
October 30, 2025 by Adam Milstein
Newsletter
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The terrorist attack outside a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur left two people dead and the United Kingdom shaken. Yet it wasn’t an isolated act of madness, but rather the culmination of decades of moral decline in that country. Jewish life has now retreated behind walls; families are quietly applying for second passports.
The United States is not there yet — but we’re heading in the same direction. Whether we become an unwelcome country for Jews depends on how our generation responds to the same rising antisemitism that has been essentially unchecked across the Atlantic. It’s really a test of whether our democracy still has a conscience — and a future.
Jew-hatred has surged in both the UK and US since Hamas’ massacre two years ago, when more than 1,200 Israeli civilians were brutally murdered and raped and hundreds were kidnapped into Gaza. Instead of uniting in condemnation, too many voices in Western academia, politics and media twisted the moment to fit their agendas — rationalizing and even celebrating terrorism as “resistance.” In this warped narrative, the slaughter of innocents became “bravery,” while Israel’s defense of its citizens was smeared as “genocide.” And when elites excuse terrorism abroad, they normalize hatred at home.
It has become abundantly clear that turning Israelis into villains pushes people to see Jews as oppressors and human-right violators. The result is a reversal of the lines between victims and perpetrators that fuel division, resentment and in time, violence toward Jews.
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