Horus on Jewish immigration to Britain

Horus’s more detailed article on Jewish immigration to Britain and the lies it was based on can be found at: “Ties Abroad: The context and causes of Jewish immigration from 1881.” In a separate post on Substack, he notes: “This and much else I’ve written owes a great deal to the pathbreaking work of Andrew Joyce, such as: “Revisiting the 19th-Century Russian Pogroms, Part 1: Russia’s Jewish Question.”

Unfortunately, I have lost touch with AJ and, given the draconian penalties for offending the powers-that-be in the UK, I worry that he is in prison. If anyone knows how to get in touch with him, I would be grateful.

Horus on Substack

1997 and 1948 are spoken of as watershed years in immigration to Britain, but think also of 1881. Britain had around 60,000 Jews before that date. By the start of the Great War it was nearer 300,000.

A common myth has it that the post-1881 inundation was caused by ‘the pogroms’, but Jewish historians agree that emigration from Eastern Europe was already well underway and was composed of people who both did and did not come from regions with pogroms. A large minority of the Jews there appear to have collectively decided to migrate for better opportunities, mostly to America but in smaller numbers to Britain.

The pogrom myth typically posits crazed Russian idiots attacking Jews for no reason, whereas, as Andrew Joyce has shown, the inter-communal violence had explicable causes not simply arising from the non-Jewish side.

Jews’ position in Britain was already favourable. Politically they were emancipated and strongly overrepresented in Parliament. The Rothschilds and other wealthy families were benefactors of Queen Victoria, her heir Edward and politicians like Disraeli and the Churchills, and they strongly influenced the outcome of the epochal Congress of Berlin, “a very considerable victory” for British Jewry according to Geoffrey Alderman, who doesn’t specify over whom the victory was had.

As Todd Endelman approvingly describes,

“In Victorian Britain, at least before the end of the century, the pressures that caused Jews elsewhere to abandon traditional notions of peoplehood, collective fate, and mutual responsibility were muted. British Jews were free to express their ties to Jews abroad without fear of endangering their own struggle for civil equality and social acceptance.”

This is the story of how, for the benefit of an international people, Britain began to be deprived of its nationhood.