- La communauté juive britannique "donne, donne, donne" au pays- mais ce n'est jamais assez et l'antisémitisme n'a pas pour autant disparu. Au contraire il devient de plus en plus acceptable et virulent. Maureen Lipman a raison. On oublie trop facilement la contribution des Juifs à la culture européenne.
- En cas de crise économique, il faut un bouc émissaire. Les coupables tout désignés sont les Juifs.
- Une école de pensée estime que que l'antisémitisme est provoqué par la politique israélienne au Moyen-Orient. C'est faux. L'antisémitisme existe depuis 4.000 ans.
- Ca fait longtemps que l'actrice songe à aller s'installer à New York ou en Israël. Ses enfants, que le sujet agaçait, ont fini par y prêter attention. Ils lui ont dit: "Maman, nous croyons que tu as raison".
- Il y a 245.000 Juifs au Royaume-Uni. Les Juifs ne se font pas exploser avec des avions contre des immeubles. Les Juifs ne font pas de prosélytisme. En règle générale, les Juifs respectent la loi. De quoi donc a-t-on peur?
Daphne Anson:
Yorkshire-born Anglo-Jewish actress, writer, and humorist Maureen Lipman, an outspoken champion of Israel, was born the year following the end of the Second World War (although for reasons better known to itself the Daily Mail gives her age as 71).
Like her contemporaries, the woman often described as a "British National Treasure" grew up during a time when antisemitism appeared to have virtually expired, as people contemplated the unparallelled genocidal wickedness to which antisemitism led. Today, of course, antisemitism has proved, both in Britain and other parts of Europe, that it was not at death's door but only slumbering after all, and none too deeply at that.
Maureen Lipman, in an interview with LBC Radio on Holocaust Memorial Day, has revealed that the rise in antisemitic incidents in Britain in recent months has not only left her "very depressed" but has alarmed her enough to consider moving to New York or Israel:
“When the going gets tough, the Jews get packing. It’s crossed my mind that it’s time to have a look around for another place to live....
My kids are very bored with me. But it is only in the last few months that they have to begun to say: ‘Mum, you may have something’....
When the economy dries up, then they turn on the usual scapegoat: the usual suspect – the Jew.
There is one school of thought that says it’s because of Israeli policies in the West Bank – it isn’t. There’s been antisemitism for the past 4,000 years....
There are 245,000 Jews in the country. What’s to fear? We don’t proselytise, we don't fly planes into buildings, we generally keep on the right side of the law.... We give and give and give ...’
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