Prince Charles of the Jug ears (whom did you think I was referring to?) recently gave a speech about British Jews and not once mentioned Israel. Events such as the Balfour Declaration, the Holocaust, etc. were not important enough to reference. Given the virulent anti Zionism permeating the United Kingdom, as well as Charles’s well known philo-Islamism I suppose we should not be surprised.
hat tip – Israellycool
by Brian of London
Some say he talks to his plants, some say he plans to conquer the world with His own brand of organic food, all I know is he can give a two thousand word speech about British Jews, to British Jews and not mention Israel once. And why, peculiarly, is the version of his speech released on the Board of Deputies website, spelt according to American norms with “ize” all over it?
On the 5th of July Prince Charles, accompanied by his second wife, gave the key note speech (repeated in full below) to a dinner of the “great and good” of British Jewish community to mark the 250th Anniversary of the Board of Deputies of British Jews at the Guildhall in London. That was a pretty big deal and he chose, as the theme for his speech, to speak on the contributions and achievements of British Jews in the times during which they’ve been allowed to live in Britain (they were expelled from Britain in 1290 and only readmitted in 1656).
But there is one minor achievement of some British Jews that seems to go unmentioned and one small matter in which the British had a small hand in (for both good and bad). Of course you know which country, beginning with “I” did not get mentioned once in Prince Charles’s speech. Jonathan Hoffman of the Zionist Federation has written a short criticism, I’ll see his and raise him to the house maximum.
What did British Jews ever do for Israel?
So here are a few of the things Prince Charles could have said about British Jews, Britain and Israel:
Charles is rightly proud of the 10,000 Jewish children saved from annihilation by the Kinder-transport policy: he’s less keen to mention the 1939 White Paper on Immigration to Israel that doomed to death hundreds of thousands or even millions of otherwise saveable Jews because it would have upset some Arabs;
There was no mention of the treatment of holocaust surviving Jews across Europe who languished behind barbed wire, held captive by British soldiers in displaced persons camps while the British government desperately tried to stop them getting to safety in Israel. How about, once and for all, an apology for this?;
Charles mentions his “righteous gentile” grandmother, Princess Alice, Prince Phillip’s mother from Greece who personally saved a family of Jews in Athens. She is buried in Israel (at her dying request) and Prince Phillip did visit the grave once on an unofficial visit. Neither Charles nor any member of the Royal Family has ever officially visited Israel and the last time the subject of an official visit to Israel came up, behind the scenes it emerged that it was “Safe to assume there is no chance of this visit ever actually happening”;
There was no mention of the Balfour Declaration or any of those who helped in the creation of this: Chaim Weizmann, the Jew, spent much of his life in Britain working towards the re-establishment of Israel. Many of the key decisions and the key blockages surrounding Israel’s re-creation occurred in Britain;
The British Board of Deputies has a number of objectives. One of them is to “take such appropriate action as lies within its power to advance Israel’s security, welfare, and standing”. You’d think, as they sat and listened to this careful avoidance of the creation of the Jewish national home and safe haven to prevent future holocausts, some of them might have felt something? Or, perhaps, more than a few of these “court Jews” are more than a little embarrassed by a strong Jewish State that refuses to negotiate itself out of existence with its genocidal neighbours and fifth columists.
Indeed, the first Jewish Knight, specifically mentioned in his speech, was Sir Solomon de Medina, who helped the Duke of Marlborough finance his War of the Spanish Succession. The Jewish Virtual Library describes him as “An English example of the Court Jew”. I’m sure he is a role model to more than a few in that audience.
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Read the rest – The Madness of Future King Charles
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