Jonathan Sacerdoti

And I think that...

Within the UK, even if you put Israel aside, we're a minuscule portion of this population.

You know, British Jews are under half a percent of the population in this country.

I mean, how many of us do you think there are?

It's something like 300,000 in the whole country.

Most people in Britain don't know a Jew.

And why should they if they don't live somewhere near Jews or they don't work with Jews?

And even if you do know Jews, quite a lot of the time you don't know they're Jews.

We're just regular Brits like everyone else.

When I go to work and it's certainly in the past, I'm a little bit more high profile about these things now.

But when I worked in television production, you know, 20 something years ago,

was irrelevant to the people around me that I was Jewish unless we became friends and I mentioned what I might have done at the weekend or elements of my own personal life and religion and background and culture and faith.

So I think there is a lot of ignorance.

I think that's then hijacked by a lot of

Calamity, lies, misrepresentation of Israel.

And I think that what's fed into that has been the infiltration and influx of masses and masses of people in this country from cultures which traditionally have extremely anti-Jewish sentiments and thoughts.

culturally and religiously, and that's from Islamic immigration.

So Islamic immigration into the UK has undoubtedly triggered and increased what might have been a small latent anti-Semitism or anti-Jewishness in Britain already.

So some Brits may have had negative opinions of Jews.

Discrimination against Jews, it might have manifested very rarely in small ways.