Rob Rinder disclosed that his Jewish mother didn’t feel safe in Britain after the Hamas attack on Israel.
The TV judge also told Good Morning Britain that his young nephew goes to school ‘under risk’ and may ‘not come home’ as he fears for the safety of all Jewish people across the country.
It comes amid fears of a surge in anti-Semitic hate crimes in Britain after Hamas terrorists massacred innocent Israeli civilians at the weekend, and Israel started bombing Gaza in retaliation.
Robert Rinder was born into a Jewish family and received an MBE in 2021, along with his mother Angela Cohen, in recognition of their services to Holocaust teaching.
He learned how seven of his relatives were slaughtered in Nazi concentration camps in the Second World War while delving into his family history on a 2018 episode of the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are?
Speaking to GMB, he said that his mother was sitting there saying that she felt unsafe. There are less than 270,000 Jews in this country and his nephew, kids as young as seven, were going to school and they did so at risk.
He said that there was a chance they could go to school and not come home and that sending your kids to school shouldn’t be an act of courage, but that was the life-lived experience of Jewish kids just going to school.
He said that shop owners in London and in other cities have lived a memory of that, of what that means not to be safe because of your religion, because of being Jewish.
He added that it was personal for him but it should be personal for every person, whoever they are, up and down the country, and that it was worth remembering when you think about how you’re going to respond today.
He said he was at a vigil outside Downing Street. What happened at that vigil was there was no chanting, no happiness, there was a prayer for peace, for every single human life, every single human life that has value.
He said that whatever happens in the Middle East should have no impact on the safety of our communities and that it was our job whoever you are to stand alongside us because we need you, and he added to be mindful of that and what you say before you post.
No Jew feels safe here at the moment, and it will get worse. We shouldn’t let their war become ours! Unfortunately, it’s too late thanks to Sadiq Khan.
This is appalling because every person has the right to feel safe in the United Kingdom.
People are asking what the police are doing about this. But this requires more than our pathetic weak police, it needs the army to task safety on our streets, schools and anywhere else required. We need to get the job done, now we don’t think about it until it’s too late.
Every child in school has the right to feel safe and it’s a sad reflection on society that they don’t.
Rob Rinder discussed his mother and his family on TV and he attracted attention to himself and his family, not an extremely smart idea, and why broadcast yourself and your family if you’re so afraid?
We must stand up against these bullies because bullying, harassment and intimidation should not be tolerated. The trouble is that there’s so much hate and not enough love in this world.
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