Prince Harry: UK antisemitism ‘deeply troubling,’ Mideast violence cannot justify it |
LONDON — Prince Harry on Thursday said a rise in antisemitism in Britain is deeply troubling and that whatever anger people felt about events in the Middle East, nothing could justify hostility towards people or faiths.
In an article for the New Statesman magazine, Harry, 41, made thinly-veiled criticism of some policies of the Israeli government, but said legitimate protest should not spill over into hatred.
“Across the country, we are seeing a deeply troubling rise in anti-Semitism,” King Charles’ younger son wrote on Thursday.
“Jewish communities — families, children, ordinary people — are being made to feel unsafe in the very places they call home,” he wrote. “That should alarm us, but also unite us.”
Britain has seen a surge in antisemitism against the country’s 290,000-strong Jewish community since the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the Gaza war, with a spate of arson attacks on Jewish sites in London in recent weeks and two Jewish men stabbed in April in what police are treating as a terrorist incident.
Some politicians and Jewish community leaders said the antisemitism........