Jonathan Kalmus wore a traditional Jewish kippah as he walked through streets in Bradford and Manchester and it took just one minute before the first abuse was hurled at him, the Daily Mail reports.
Mr Kalmus, who videoed his experiment for the Mail, was spat at in Manchester and was subjected to intimidatory language by a boy walking along the road with his father. In total, he was subjected to ten anti-Semitic incidents in just one hour in what is revealed to be a damning indictment of Britain’s swelling intolerance particularly in areas with large numbers of Muslims. The total is eight more than Klein received in Paris, in just one tenth of the time.
But he stated that he did not target Muslim neighbourhoods to provoke a reaction, but was just “minding his own business” in the centre of two large towns in Britain.
He described his experience in Bradford as “shameful”....
Dr. David P Murray | 11/12/2006
