UK Jews are fooling themselves

• Published date: 11 March 2021
• Date: 11 March 2021
• Author: Dr. Harold Goldmeier
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

Tenenbom wants to learn about Brexit but gets caught up in the Jewish questions. How pervasive is anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom? How are Jews responding? He takes to the streets and reports his findings in a new book.

Tenenbom chronicles his capers roaming through Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. He is more of a participant than a detached journalist. Anti-Semites, he reports, commonly disguise their positions as pro-Palestinian fulminations. Underneath it all lie traditional crude blood libels. For instance, a favorite indictment of the Jews is they purposely kill or support the killers of Palestinian Arab children.

Tuvia reports the findings in a solid, entertaining, and informative book, and best-selling e-book, titled The Taming of the Jew (Gefen Publishing, 2021/5781). His favorite theme is exposing the place of Jews living in free societies, in the age of tolerance, and how Jews respond.

Enjoy the humor and self-deprecation of Tenenbom's writing. They are his hallmarks, but don't give short shrift to the importance of his findings. He is genuine, remarkably sensitive to the surroundings, and insightful per Mead and Benedict, but funnier. Methods include driving the back roads, walking neighborhood streets, drinking in local pubs, eating in family restaurants, sleeping in off-beat hotels and engaging ordinary folk and influencers.

Tenenbom is relentless in questioning Christians about the Jews. He is no less relentless when talking with Jews about anti-Semitism. He presses everyone about the pro-Palestinian love affair promoted by politicians and NGOs.

Pro-Palestinian murals are eye-catching. Palestinian flags fly atop buildings. They wave at daily demonstrations and civic celebrations. Israel is the vilified and supporters denounced.

The Kingdom is Sick

Tenenbom is incredulous the anti-Semites spend time and treasure promoting the Palestinian cause when the Irish have their own Troubles, the Scots are pushing for independence from England, and Brexit. What can explain "the rift between the north and the south of Ireland, which exists to this day? Let me see if I got it: the English kill the Irish, and that's why the Irish hate the Israelis-slash Jews?"

Tenenbom visits an Amnesty International bookstore in Newcastle and the Sinn Féin bookstore. He might have wanted information about Brexit but was absorbed and bemused by the displays of Palestinian flags and artifacts in Ireland prompting Tuvia to write, "clients are not necessarily book...