\u201cEvery couple of weeks you\u2019ll hear of another couple or family in the community who have moved or will be moving soon to Israel,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that should be the thing that shocks us as a country.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Jewish community feels that life in the UK is not safe, he said. Before Wednesday\u2019s stabbings in Golders Green<\/a>, there had been a series of attempted arson attacks<\/a> at Jewish sites, including one in the same road where the stabbings began: when four Jewish community ambulances were set on fire in the early hours of 23 March.<\/p>\n Frankfurt, a British-born father of four, and chair of his local synagogue, is now considering his red line. \u201cIf the things that are part of day-to-day life become physically unsafe for you and your family to the point of risk of life, you\u2019d be crazy not to consider alternatives. And that is where we are now.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHuman instinct tells you, \u2018it\u2019s actually not going to be that bad,\u2019\u201d he said. Hearing verbal abuse shouted from a passing car, or seeing a swastika daubed on a tombstone, \u201cYou can say: \u2018It could be worse.\u2019 You can rationalise it as a random idiot or moronic youth.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the point at which [there are] physical threats, threats to life \u2013 and I\u2019m not being hyperbolic, I\u2019m not trying to dramatise \u2013 but we\u2019ve seen in the past few weeks, we\u2019ve seen this week in Golders Green, it is an actual threat to life. I think most people say: \u2018OK, well if a threat to life isn\u2019t your red line, then actually what is?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n His daughter, Libby, 16, told BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today programme on Friday that she had been verbally abused at a Sabrina Carpenter concert while talking to Israeli concert-goers. She said a man nearby began screaming: \u201cYou\u2019ve committed genocide, you\u2019re killing babies.\u201d It was her first direct experience of antisemitism.<\/p>\n She said she now doesn\u2019t want to bring her own family up in the UK when she\u2019s older. \u201cSomeone who isn\u2019t Jewish is not scared to live their life. But I\u2019m petrified just because I\u2019m Jewish.\u201d<\/p>\n Data from the Institute for Jewish Policy Research shows that 742 people emigrated to Israel from the UK in 2025, the highest annual total in more than 40 years, though the organisation said this did not amount to an \u201cexodus\u201d.<\/p>\n Charlotte, 43, who has three children under 13 and works in communications, and her husband, a civil servant, said their circle had spoken \u201csort of in jest, but also not in jest\u201d of moving to the \u201cvery safe Jewish community in Panama\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cFrequently we hear families are choosing to emigrate to Israel, either already left, or will be leaving at the end of this academic year, and it is no longer a surprise, even though Israel has its own challenges,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n![\"\u2018An](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777655890_141_1920.jpg\")
\u2018An epidemic\u2019: is antisemitism out of control in the UK? – The Latest<\/p>\n