Jonathan Sacerdoti
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And that is not a contradiction.
In fact, they're notes in a symphony and a harmony.
They are flavours which are complementary.
And I think it's extremely unfair that
that some people wish to try to separate them and to force it to be in conflict.
And I will say this as well, that I think it's happened to some people
not out of an instinctive animosity to Jews, but because they look at often the Muslim communities in Britain or certain Muslim immigrants in Britain, and they don't feel that they integrated sufficiently.
And they then think, well, I can't criticise them if I don't criticise all the other immigrant groups that came here too.
So if I criticise Muslims, I must also criticise Jews.
But I say, hold us to the right standards.
If we are working against this country, if we are clashing with its culture, then we can have a conversation on those things.
But don't do it out of some sort of weird sense of level handedness and fair play, which means that you have to blame us for the people that are also killing us.
not having integrated.
It just doesn't make any sense at all.
So that's, I haven't necessarily expressed it the best way I could have done, but I think it's, for me, it just makes me so sad and so upset because I am so British in myself, in my heart.
I feel proud of this country.
I feel proud of the values.
You know, my dad was an immigrant, but he came here because he was an Anglophile.
He loved Britain.
He loved British literature.