After continuing to settle into our life in Israel, we decided that some outstanding domestic duties required attention on the sceptered Isle of Great Britain, with a trip to the new center of antisemitism, Ireland, thrown in.
On these two islands, apart from many other natives, live a 95-year-old Mother-in-Law and a 2-year-old granddaughter.
After a few days in the UK, we realized we had successfully reversed our lives. Israel is our home: the UK is an unhappy place to visit. In fact, it wasn’t us that had reversed position… it was the World. Even the weather is in reverse. We left a balmy June in Israel and replaced it with a scorching July in Britain. How odd is that? Positively Shakespearean.
But the weather was not the worst of it. A lot can happen when you are in another country for a few weeks, especially those that you have witnessed becoming more and more hostile and those where the governments spend all of their waking hours berating Israel.
I have charted for you the coming of a new government in the UK, under the stewardship of Andy Burnham. We have now witnessed at first hand its first couple of weeks.
The UK remains ungovernable due to immigration. For any person to gain entry, you simply require a reserved seat on a rubber dinghy, and provided you jettison any identity documents you had gone to the trouble and expense of having forged, if when you touch land you call out “home” you have made it.
Assuming that you know the English word “home”. There then begins the unformulated process of moving you between army barracks and hotels until it is resolved whether you are a legal or illegal immigrant. Whichever it is, it seems you are allowed to stay.
The scale of this is out of control. In four days, July 23-26,10 boats brought 709 migrants to the UK. In the year ending March 2026, the numbers totaled 37,970. The majority fall into the category of illegals, and here’s the rub: 12% are Iranian young men. No doubt the Moroccans that broke into Spain will soon be arriving in Britain.
On July 25, it became widely publicized that some of those coming to UK shores are linked to the IRGC Unit 700, and the Iranian regime is threatening to avenge the UK for allowing the US to use their bases in Britain to launch attacks on Iran.
The British people seem to have forgotten the 7/7/ bombings, when 4 radicalized Islamists connected to al-Qaeda blew up underground trains and a bus, killing 56 and injuring 784.
What the IRA had begun in the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s was taken over by extreme muslims, including the attempt to decapitate a British soldier, Lee Rigby.
So as we arrived in Britain, the prospect of renewed terrorism on the streets rang loud and clear.
Who else greeted us? Sarah Mullally had been appointed the first woman archbishop of Canterbury. The appointment was replaced by disappointment, as she was photographed at her official residence, Lambeth Palace, standing beneath a photo of the former Palestinian terrorist leader Yasser Arafat.
But what she has done is almost as bad as Arafat. She has led and encouraged the Church of England gathering at the General Synod to pass a resolution to hear the “Kairos Palestine II”. This claims that the Palestinians live “in a time of genocide, ethnic cleansing and forced displacement unfolding before the eyes of the World”.
The Archbishop says she continues to pray and support her Palestinian Christian sisters and brothers. And whilst she claims she also stands in solidarity with the Jewish community of the UK. Of course she does not refer to the hostages, October 7, or any sympathetic reference to Israel.
The Church proclaims now that the October massacre was inevitable and cannot remain silent in the face of the destruction of life. Palestinian life that is. So that’s the church for you.
Sadiq Khan becoming a member of the House of Lords
After crossing the River Thames and driving for 4 minutes, you come to the House of Lords and its newest member.
Donald Trump has referred to London Mayor Sadiq Khan in his typical style: “grossly incompetent, a bad person and a bad representative for your (UK) country.” He was not wrong.
Therefore, it was obviously just a matter of time until Keir Starmer honored him with a peerage that entitles him to sit in the House of Lords. Khan has echoed calls originally raised by Zohran Mamdani, advocating for the arrest and prosecution of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Which brings us to yet another upstanding and outstanding member of the professional classes of Britain, Karim Khan. On June 8, he was formally suspended by the International Criminal Court following an 18-month investigation into alleged coercive and non-consensual sexual misconduct.
Compared with Bibi, against whom he issued an arrest warrant, I do not doubt that the company of Bibi would be far less distasteful than either of the Khans mentioned above.
Next week off to Ireland, the new European captains of antisemitism. There is a new president, Catherine Connolly, whose sister had occupied a place on one of the flotillas designed to bring much-needed supplies (2 cans of tomato soup) to Gaza.
When we arrived back in Britain, we said to ourselves, Cheer up; things could be worse, so we cheered up, and they were.
But there is one silver lining in the cloud. Boy George, growing up in London, has released a song called “ We Will Dance Again,” featuring his total support for Israel and the Jewish people. It is simply the most beautiful song I have ever heard. Britain is toxic. We will be home very soon.
The writer is a retired criminal Judge and author. He lives between London and Zichron Ya’akov.