Yes there is antisemitism from British people too, in fact any Jewish person will tell you that in the UK today it comes from 3 sources:
- The extreme far right (I would say this is very little at present)
- The moderate to extreme left (a lot)
- The Muslim community (incredibly pervasive)
Of course, 2) currently favours 3) so they march together and band together in this.
On Friday I had a maybe 20-25 year old British Muslim girl (2nd or maybe 3rd generation immigrant) telling me that of course Jews were OK (I'm pretty sure she thought that if she said that she was staying on the right side of the line) but that Israelis were Europeans who had no right ever to have set foot in Palestine in the first place and they should all get out. Had no interest in the fact that well over 50% of Israelis are from middle eastern Jewish families who were evicted to Israel, or in what she would like done about Israeli Arabs who are Druzim, Christian or Muslim who quite liked having an Israeli government and didn't want to be ruled instead by Hamas. She also avoided the question about where she thought the Israelis should go to and retreated back to mud slinging.
There is a lot of miseducation out there in some circles / communities, it is well known that teachers in schools with large Muslim populations are refraining from reaching about the holocaust because they are afraid of the response from parents.
So yes it does need to be taught and it does need to be made compulsory. I am pretty sure the majority of Muslims on the Pro-Palestinian marches would not have marched for Uyghur or Yeminite Muslims, they are marching because they believe Israelis are almost-white European colonialist settlers in what they think should be Muslim lands.
And I do have to say it is extremely rare to hear even one Muslim standing up and saying this is wrong or condemning Hamas / terrorism. I believe they are out there but it sure would be nice to hear from them. Maybe amongst themselves they denounce it but for the world they stay quiet because they won't criticise another Muslim, who knows.
Re SBC, I find him generally funny but he really goes way too close to the edge sometimes. In fact, sometimes he goes right over the edge. That is of course what satire is, but I do find it uncomfortable. But I also admire his ability to do that with a straight face. Maybe these clips should have a line at the bottom saying they are satire for those that don't understand that type of humour.
On the subject of Jewish people silencing other Jewish people or calling them antisemitic.....you can have antisemitic Jewish people just as you can have homophobic gay people. The external messages received become internalised.
But a lot of the time I think it is fear - if a Jewish person stands up and says I am Jewish but I don't like x y and z, the rest of the community fears that they are just encouraging the external antisemites. And it is true, because when Jews agree with anything that antisemites say, people say 'Oh look, even the Jews themselves admit it' and use it to give their cause more credence.
It's like if someone knows a prison officer and that officer discloses another officer was letting phones be smuggled in, that person will tell all their friends 'I know a prison officer and even they admitted that the prisons are rife with smuggling and that officers ignore it", and then when that gets to the next person it becomes 'phones and drugs are snuggled into every prison in the country, all the officers know about it, I know this on good authority because my mate is friends with a prison officer'. (apologies to any prison officers reading!). That is why Jewish people sometimes try to shut down other Jewish people.