British Jews Make Break With Israel

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/juliankossoff/100065692/british-jewry-goes-off-message-over-israel/

Julian Kossoff, Daily Telegraph





AP PhotoBritish Jewry's relationship with Israel is undergoing seismic change. The monolithic "Israel right or wrong" support of the mainstream suddenly cracked when one of the community's most senior leaders went dramatically off-message.

As the Jewish Chronicle reported Mick Davis, chairman of the pre-eminent Anglo-Israel charity, the UJIA, and the executive of the Jewish Leadership Council, "shattered a longstanding taboo by publicly criticising the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the peace process, voicing moral reservations about some of...

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