If you're going to make a sweeping generalisation about a religion or ethnicity that "Brits" (whatever that means) have a weird negative fixation on, it would b

If you're going to make a sweeping generalisation about a religion or ethnicity that "Brits" (whatever that means) have a weird negative fixation on, it would be Muslims not Jews. There's an ongoing moral panic kicked off by September 11 (and inflamed further by the Tube bombings) that gets eyeballs on news stories and ballots in boxes. It's stupid, it's hateful and I've never been into it but it's something that's in the public conscience and (through "Prevent") in law too. Probably the worst thing you could say about the overwhelming majority of the population's views on Judaism or Jews is that they're ignorant of it. I was completely unaware of the negative stereotypes some people have of Jewish people (or even things like - which names were more Jewish than others) until I was on the internet and came into regular contact with Americans who were aware of it. My views until then were roughly "Judaism is sorta like Christianity but older, and Hannukah occurs around christmas time and involves candles". After that I thought the same, but also "and Americans don't really like Jews". Obviously that's not correct, but I wanted to share the experience of one of the "Brits" you're casually dismissing as anti-semitic.