Admitting Gazan refugees would be proof that Britain has a death wish

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Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph today.
The sheer level of hatred in this article horrifies me. Am I wrong to feel so shocked by this?

The racists on here… Eugh…

Firstly, OP, why would you be surprised that the Torygraph prints such shit though? They represent supporters of a party that has no shame and is openly islamaphobic.

Secondly, why on earth should the Palestinian people be forced out of their land? They shouldn’t need to be refugees, that’s ethnic cleansing. They should be given their own state which Israel should now have to pay to build.

Some Ukrainians did. As far as I know, the largest numbers were taken in by Poland and Germany (around a million each).

Having said I completely disagree with any nonsense about this country being full and I completely support the right of refugees to come here, and our rsponsiblity to them, I think taking in Gazan refugees would be a huge risk. As someone else has said they are traumatised and radicalised and according to any evidence we have seen there is is a high level of very enthusiastic support for the attacks on Jews of October 7th. Not forgetting that prior to October 7th Gazans regularly conducted smaller scale terrorist attacks against Jews. There is a reason why Egypt and other ME regions don't want them, because they have enough problems of their own with radical Islamism and Islamist terrrorism. This is the tragedy of the Palestinian people, no doubt. But its surely a problem that has to be solved in the ME.

Yeah.

Plus we have plenty of space for white European refugees.

Whereas we are "full" when it comes to accepting brown Muslim refugees. Obviously.

Have to agree, it's difficult enough as it is

I don’t think it would be a good idea either. My support goes out to Palestinian people but because Britain and America etc have behaved poorly in supporting Israel I think we would attract some wanting revenge.

Then innocent people here would get harmed and Israel would smugly say “ I told you so” to justify their illegal settlements and war crimes etc and Palestinians would get stigmatised here. All in all it wouldn’t benefit them.

In terms of Ukraine vast majority went to Poland....over 1.5 million. The UK took a couple of hundred thousand. Also remember the UK supports Ukraine. Why would Gazans want to seek refuge in a country which is allies with Israel?

The only thing it would be good for would be the expansion of the faith in the west. The only people I'd expect to support that would be Muslims given the history of the religion.

Wouldn't be good for other faiths though in the UK

I think it is right to be concerned about this

Not only that, Egypt is right next door and a massive country. Proplr could easily step into the country and go back once Hamas is taken out

We all know why Egypt wont all free access to the people and is a fact that some will never accept - so sad

It would be pointless to answer that question because in the real world the question is never asked or answered in isolation.

If the uk is so intrinsically racist and parochial, why were we happy to accept Vietnamese boat people in the 70’s?

There was a huge surge of support for unaccompanied migrant children a few years back. Several of my friends registered to foster.

I don’t think people in the uk are intrinsically unwelcoming to people with dark skins or who are not Christian

OK. I missed that surge of support.

When I worked with unaccompanied asylum seeking children, most of whom were deeply traumatised, I was appalled at how much racism and hostility they encountered in our local community. One of them was attacked with a hammer a week after arriving in this country... and he had thought he was coming from a place of persecution to a safe haven.

People accepted Ukrainian refugees because it seemed temporary. They’re fighting hard to get their country back, so they were evacuees more than anything. Where there’s no proper organised resistance and no prospect of return any time soon people are more wary.

Equally I don’t think it’s unusual or exclusively a white phenomenon to take more interest in a country that is closer or shares more of a culture. People of Muslim background seem more vocal and interested in Gaza than they are in Ukraine, for example.

This 100%. I'm half Jewish and non-practicing and if this country suddenly decided to admit tens of thousands of Hamas supporters I would feel very unsafe and would feel I had to look for a way to leave myself. I can only imagine how practicing Jews would feel. It's an incredibly naive idea and only supported by those with nothing to lose by it - not those of us who would be under attack.

Amongst those refugees would also be many innocent people. We should be looking to Egypt and other Muslims countries to do more, not the U.K.

If Britain stop supplying weapons to Israel to help kill the Palestinians they wouldn't have to flee from there land.

Possibly because they see how Christians are treated in Moslem countries or anyone else who doesn't want to practice Islam and perhaps they feel overwhelmed by how the place they live in is changing

Why is that not understandable

I don't think the realism of the original article is particularly hateful.

Having seen the baying mobs on 7 October and every time a poor hostage is released, I'm not sure why they should come here.

We supply less than 1% apparently. Pretty sure if we stopped there wouldn't suddenly be peace.

Britain supplies about 1% of Israel's arms. Stopping that 1% would have next to no effect.

Oops, sorry to repeat!!

Not speaking about Islam in general, but fundamentalist Islam clearly has some very aggressive expansionist elements, just as Christianity once did e.g. during the Crusades. Well-meaning liberalism doesn't serve us well in the face of religious fanaticism. We just can't grasp the restless dedication to eradicating everything that stands in the way of achieving a very specific outcome. If it were 1% of those invited in, that would be more than enough to cause absolute mayhem, but as PPs have mentioned the percentage would seem to be higher.

You know that only dogs can hear that whistle don't you?

Agree with every word.