[IsraelTimes] ’Like we’re in 1930s Germany,’ says father, as Britannia sees sharp uptick in antisemitism; home secretary promises incident will be investigatedUK Home Secretary James Cleverly promised "appropriate action" Monday after a London Jewish couple received their six-month-old daughter’s birth certificate partially ripped with the word "Israel," the father’s birthplace, blotted out.
"Two weeks ago, a member of the public sent off a passport application to [the UK Home Office] for his six-month-old baby girl. Today, the birth certificate was returned ripped with the word ’Israel’ scribbled out," wrote the Anglo-Jewish organization Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) in an X post Monday, with a picture of the defaced document. "We are asking the Home Office to investigate how this happened. The Home Office has responsibility for law enforcement and the security of the Jewish community. "
Cleverly replied to the post two hours later, saying that "I have asked my officials to investigate this urgently and will see that appropriate action is taken." Minister of Security Tom Tugendhat seconded Cleverly an hour later in a separate exchange on the social media platform.
The incident comes amid a worrying rise in British antisemitism following Hamas
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...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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war. "Confidence in the authorities among British Jews is at painfully low levels and must be restored," a CAA spokesperson said in a statement.
Israel, 32, an engineer father of three from Edgware in north London who preferred not to disclose his surname, told the Daily Mail that his wife Dorin, 29, had opened the envelope containing their baby Ronnie’s birth certificate, and was aghast to discover the name of the Jewish state scribbled over in pen, with the document itself partially torn, rendering it invalid.
According to the image posted by the CAA, the entry for the mother’s birthplace, which is also Israel, was left intact. Since personal names were redacted in the published image, it is unclear if the father’s name, Israel, was vandalized as well.
Antisemitism in Britannia has surged since the start of Israel’s war on Hamas. On Thursday, the Community Security Trust, an Anglo-Jewish security advisory body, published a report that said the number of antisemitic incidents in the UK in 2023 had more than doubled since 2022. Speaking in the House of Commons Monday, Policing Minister Chris Philip called the report "deeply disturbing reading."
"The record total of antisemitic hate in 2023 is due entirely to the surge in incidents following the 7 October Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, and the scale of the increase is unprecedented," the CST said in a statement Thursday.