How to do foreign policy in a multi-ethnic society
It is more complicated, but not necessarily worse
HERE ARE a few vignettes from Britain over the past week. Tens of thousands of protesters marched on the Israeli embassy, some shouting “Israel is a terror state”. A convoy of vehicles festooned with Palestinian flags drove into a heavily Jewish part of north London while a thug bellowed “fuck the Jews and rape their daughters”. Two Leicester City football players celebrated their victory in the FA Cup by unveiling a Palestinian flag. Many of these protesters belonged to Britain’s large Muslim population.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Over there and over here”
Britain May 22nd 2021
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