It is true that anti-semitism is alive and well in Britain, and that
it expresses itself in oblique ways. That said, and Julie Burchill
and a few others aside, what was striking was the high seriousness
with which the Rabin assassination and funeral was covered. What is
imperfectly understood, especially in the British press, is the
difference in outlook between religious and secular Jews, and, in
that sense at least, the politics of the assassination was initially
underplayed.
David Eastwood