Explaining the British Hatred of Israel

Next to North Korea, Israel is reported to be the country viewed least favorably in Britain. Alexander Joffe identifies four primary factors behind British hatred of Israel and of Jews more generally: the pro-Palestinian stance of the Labor party, anti-Zionist currents within the Church of England, the growing population of Muslims, who are “at the forefront of anti-Semitic agitation in Britain,” and (perhaps most importantly) lingering and contradictory feelings about the collapse of the British empire: