Appalled at lack of mention

While I agree completely with your January 26 editorial “Remembering fascism,” I am appalled that you did not cite the British Labour party, which is on the far left and is openly antisemitic and anti-Zionist.

STEPHEN JEROME KOHN

Ra’anana

World Jewry need not be too shocked at Britain’s plunging to record levels of antisemitism. Since a society never changes its basic character, especially in times of undue stress or national crisis, Britain is simply reverting to the traditions that have made it one of the world’s most antisemitic countries.

In more recent times, Britain, through a series of White Papers, almost entirely choked Jewish immigration to mandated Palestine prior to and following the rise of Hitler’s Germany.

Other notorious instances of Britain’s antisemitism were England’s invention of the blood libel against the Jews, and England being the first country to expel its entire Jewish community, as it did in 1290, a century after its massacre of all the Jews of York.

From Chaucer to modern times, many of Britain’s great classics have been sullied with antisemitism.

British Jewry’s only possibility of continued safety, security and protection is settlement en masse in Israel.

ROY RUNDS

Tel Aviv