Jonathan Sacerdoti

Anyone who was seen by those carrying out those acts to be fair game, to be abusable because they weren't of the same...

culture, religion, background, those people were attacked and that wasn't about Jews.

We share in this a common enemy and that's why Jewish people have contributed to this country in so many ways and to the West and to Christian culture and to European culture and

We can all join forces on this as well.

That's why I think that this shouldn't be about Jews begging other Brits for sympathy or empathy or help.

It should be about all of us saying, we have a problem together.

And we need to work together to beat it.

So I'm sorry to jump in on that one.

So the idea that Jews are responsible for waves of immigration which are diluting indigenous or white populations in Britain or around Europe or elsewhere in the West is a pervasive one.

And it's one that I think we're seeing increasingly wielded by portions of the right, if we need to use broad terms to try and describe ideologies and peoples acting a certain way.

It is false and it is wrong.

And that doesn't mean that there is no...

seed of fact from which this idea has come.

So why would Jews... This is what I want to start with, is saying it's wrong.

Why would Jews want to encourage mass immigration from a population that brings with it a huge portion of people that want to kill them?

There would be no common sense in that.

Right, and yet there is the fact that traditionally and historically...

Jewish groups or Jewish populations or Jewish communities or Jewish thought has encouraged sympathy and empathy and kindness towards immigrants.

Why?

Because very recently in our recent history, we ourselves were refugees fleeing, say, Nazi Germany, though there have been many other examples as well in Jewish history.