{"id":68181,"date":"2015-04-29T13:31:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T21:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68181"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:31:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T21:31:46","slug":"shocking-brits-dont-like-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68181","title":{"rendered":"Shocking! Brits Don&#8217;t Like Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/world\/306666\/the-strangeness-of-ed-miliband\/\">Liam Hoare writes<\/a>: &#8220;One mustn\u2019t exaggerate the problem; British society is largely free of the anti-Semitic virus. But the way the right wing in particular talks about Ed Miliband does come back to an old British malady: our problem with otherness. We have a problem with living next door to immigrants, or sitting on a train and hearing people speak a language other than English. We have a problem with foreign nationals who receive treatment for free from the National Health Service. And, we have a problem with the idea of a prime minister who doesn\u2019t know how to eat his bacon sandwiches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, Jews love strangers in their midst. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Hoare writes: &#8220;One mustn\u2019t exaggerate the problem; British society is largely free of the anti-Semitic virus. But the way the right wing in particular talks about Ed Miliband does come back to an old British malady: our problem with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68181\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[605,609],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-semitism","category-england"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68182,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68181\/revisions\/68182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}