US President Donald Trump’s administration might be considering granting asylum to British Jews, Trump’s personal lawyer has said, alleging that “the UK is no longer a safe place for Jews.”
Robert Garson, a Jewish attorney from Manchester, England, with rising influence in the Trump administration thinks the constant inertia of the legal system is causing unease in the English Jewish community.
Attacks against Jews continue, while laws and judicial institutions fail to respond decisively.
Garson proposed the move to the State Department “I have spoken to the State Department as to whether the president should be offering British Jews asylum in the US,” he said.
“I thought: Jews are being persecuted in the United Kingdom,” Garson said. “They fit a wonderful demographic for the United States. They are, on the whole, educated. They speak English natively. They’ve got businesses. They’re exactly the sort of immigrant the United States should want to attract. So, why not?”
In Israel, Immigration Minister Ofir Sofer also responded dismissively to the idea that British Jews should leave for the United States. “The home of British Jewry, and of Jews around the world, is the State of Israel,” he said.
