US considering giving asylum to British Jews, says Trump’s lawyer
Robert Garson said that the British government has 'allowed rampant antisemitism to become commonplace in society'
Donald Trump’s personal lawyer has described “speaking to the State department” about the possibility of the United States offering asylum to British Jews, stating that he sees “no future” for Jews in the UK.
Robert Garson, who is originally from England and practised here as a criminal defence barrister before moving to the US almost two decades ago, told The Telegraph that “the UK is no longer a safe place for Jews. I have spoken to the State Department as to whether the president should be offering British Jews asylum in the US.
“It is certainly not an unattractive proposition. It is a highly educated community. I have spoken to people in the State Department and I have mentioned it in my role on the Holocaust Museum board.
“It is a population that speaks English natively, that is educated and doesn’t have a high proportion of criminals. There were conversations.”
Garson, 49, originally from the Broughton Park area of Manchester also said he had raised the subject with Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, the President’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, who succeeded Deborah Lipstadt in the role in December. He described Kaploun as “receptive” to the idea.
The Florida-based lawyer, who has become head of armed security at his Synagogue, is also representing Donald Trump Jr. Garson accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of having “turned a total blind eye to antisemitism…[he] has allowed rampant anti-Semitism to become commonplace in society and has allowed it to come from those who really don’t have Britain’s best interests at heart.” He also made it clear where he believed the key threat to British Jews was coming from, talking about the possibility of “sharia-compliant areas very, very soon” in the UK.
“Mark my words, they are coming for the Jews and then they are coming for your pubs”, he claimed.
The interview with Mr Garson comes as a whistleblower accused West Midlands Police, responsible for an area including Birmingham, the UK’s second city, of being “institutionally antisemitic”. The Telegraph reports that police ignored multiple hate crimes perpetrated against Jews, including against a 12-year old school girl who was left needing medical treatment after being attacked by a classmate who was shouting “free Palestine”.
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