The UK's Rabbi Sacks is nervous.. Talk about disliking the mess one helped create!

Whaddya know? After all of his pious remarks about `diversity' in Britain and his screeds against the IDF, the chief rabbi of Great Britain, Jonathan Sacks
is a tad nervous about Jew hatred, especially in his native Britain,warning of a "tsunami of anti-Semitism."

In an interview with the BBC that was broadcast on Sunday, Sacks came up with the tidal wave imagery after being asked by interviewer Edward Stourton what he thought of remarks made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said last month that "we don't accept the claim" that millions of Jews were killed in the Holocaust.


"Sadly, I wasn't surprised, because Holocaust denial and other forms of anti-Semitism, from the Blood libel to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, have been circulating in best-selling books and prime time television in parts of the world now for several years, and this is all a kind of tsunami of anti-Semitism" Sacks said.

"I don't say it lightly - I am very scared by, and I'm very scared that, more protests have not been delivered against it, but this is part of the vocabulary of politics in certain parts of the world," he continued.

Sacks also expressed his concern regarding the situation closer to home, pointing out that throughout Europe, rabbis have been assaulted and synagogues desecrated.

"It's that kind of feeling that you don't know what's going to happen next that is making at least some European Jewish communities uncomfortable," he said.

Sacks also remarked on the increased Jew hatred closer to home.
"There have been times, the first in my memory, when it has been uncomfortable to be a Jew in Britain," he said.

The Freedom Fighter first made the acquaintance of the good Rabbi a couple of years ago. I had correspondance with his offices (Rabbi Sacks, of course, had one of his assistants do the dirty work) after he wrote a book rationalizing multiculturalism and toleration of Islam, had some highly publicized meetings with some of the most openly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic Muslim leaders in Britain, and to cap things off, used an interview with the notoriously anti-Israel Guardian to publicize his book and to make a number of Israel bashing remarks.

In other words, when the Jews of Britain were faced with a `tsunami' of Jew hatred and Israel bashing by British Muslims and the Left, Rabbi Sacks was having tea with the jihadists in Hempstead, pushing his book with the aid of one of the most anti-Israel papers in Britain and aiding and abetting in the defamation of the only Jewish country on earth.

The response from Rabbi Sacks' assistant was that he had been `misquoted' in the Guardian, and to avoid addressing the Freedom Fighter's concerns on why he had gone to the Guardian in the first place, knowing their reputation, why he was not forcefully protesting Britain's de facto arms embargo against Israel, what he was doing to protest the widespread anti-Israel bias in British academia or what exactly he was doing seeking `solidarity' with jihadists like those at the Finsbury Park Mosque.

With leadership like Rabbi Sacks, the remaining 250,000 or so Jews left in Britain certainly need no enemies. It's ludicrous that after that after allowing himself to be used as a cover for Jew haters and Israel's enemies, he suddenly is worried about anti-Semitism and feels uncomfortable to be a Jew in Britain!

In other words, Rabbi Sacks is slowly making the same discovery ex-MP Oona King did in last year's election when she was defeated as the incumbent by George Galloway in a blatently anti-Semitic campaign in the predominantly Muslim neighborhoods of Bethnal Green and Bow; bashing Israel and holding impeccable `progressive' views isn't enough to offset the sin of actually being born a Jew.

Maybe, just maybe Rabbi Sacks could atone for some of the damage he's done by disavowing his previous statements, confronting the racism and anti-Israel bias of the jihadists in Britain and their fellow travelers on the Left head on in a forceful manner and actually providing some courageous leadership for Britain's Jews and a moral example for the decent people of Britain to rally around.

But that would probably be too much too ask..so `pushy' and `assertive' you know!

Just for the record, a transcript of Rabbi Sacks'interview is NOT being published on the BBC website. I guess the Beeb has its own views on what's important.