By Seth Mandel
Thursday, April 30, 2025
In his speech
announcing, for the millionth time, that he’s had it with anti-Semitism, UK
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the following:
“We will strengthen the visible police presence in our
Jewish communities. We will increase our investment in those Jewish Security
Services. We will introduce much stronger powers to shut down charities that
promote antisemitic extremism. We will prevent hate preachers from entering our
country, bar them from our campuses, our streets, our communities. Work with
our justice system to speed up sentences on antisemitic attacks so there is a
stronger deterrence factor as we do with riots.
“And we need stronger powers to tackle the malign threat
posed by states like Iran because we know for a fact that they want to harm
British Jews which is why we will fast-track the necessary legislation. And yet
the truth is while we can and we will bring the full power of the state to bear
on this, this is about society every bit as much as it is about security. At
moments like this we often say this is not Britain, that these attacks are an
afront to British values, to British tolerance, British decency, but they keep
happening.”
Stronger powers to fight the Iran threat?
Listen, prime minister, if you’re interested in joining
the coalition against Iran, just say the word. Because last I checked most of
the work was being done by the United States military and the IDF, plus some
Gulf Arab states. And while Britain has certainly contributed here and there to
the general anti-Iran fight since October 7, if the UK is constrained from
doing more because it doesn’t have certain powers, it would surprise me
greatly.
What I took from Starmer’s remarks today was that the UK
is doing everything in its power. This is the best it can do, for now. Maybe
Parliament can change that, but a London in which terror attacks against Jews
is a daily concern is Keir Starmer’s government at the height of its power.
Who is supposed to believe that? Thank God Keir Starmer
wasn’t prime minister during World War II.
What’s happening is this: A foreign power—Iran—has
installed forces on British soil, making a mockery of British sovereignty.
Those personnel have identified highly Jewish neighborhoods and recruited
locals—again, making a mockery of Britain—to run an ongoing military operation
against the Jewish community.
Who has more power in London, prime minister? You or
Ahmad Vahidi of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps? Does Vahidi take care of
trash pickup and street sweeping too, or is he just in charge of cutting
throats in Golders Green?
Here’s another thing we learned from Starmer today: He
knows that terrorists have constructed an entire network of foreign subsidy and
sham charities. He must know who they are, because all he’s asking for is the
power to shut them down. So why now? What took so long?
I will tell you what took so long. The British public by
and large has put up with the global intifada taking place on their soil for
several years, with part of the media egging it on, and now there is finally
enough public outrage to force Starmer to do something. The humiliation of
British sovereignty—by an enemy the government refuses to fight—has become so
unavoidable that the prime minister has to act.
Which is to say: Now that it has become about something
more that “just” anti-Semitism, enough is enough.
We’ll see if the government means it this time. But if
this is the level of anarchy that raises enough public outrage to act, I
suspect this will go nowhere significant. Slightly fewer throat-stabbings in
broad daylight and Starmer could have continued ignoring the problem.
So, yes, prime minister, it’s about society. Let’s see
how you plan to fix that.
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