The Telegraph: US considering granting asylum to British Jews

The administration of the United States is considering the possibility of granting asylum to Jews living in the United Kingdom due to the rise of antisemitism in the country, said Robert Garson, the personal lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump.

In a new interview with The Telegraph, Garson stated that the Trump administration is discussing the issue with the State Department, Caliber.Az reports.

Garson stressed that the United Kingdom is no longer a safe place for Jews and that they have no future in the country.

He placed responsibility for the spread of antisemitism on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Garson said he could see “no future” for Jews in the UK and placed much of the responsibility on the British prime minister Keir Starmer, accusing him of allowing antisemitism to grow.

Garson said he raised the idea of the US acting as a refuge for British Jews with Trump’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, Yehuda Kaploun, in his role as a board member of the US Holocaust Memorial Council. Trump appointed Garson to the council in May after dismissing board members who had been appointed during Joe Biden’s presidency.

On August 27 last year, a series of attacks against the Jewish community took place in the southern British city of Bournemouth, with one teenager injured by an airgun.

Earlier, researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) presented alarming data showing that the global surge in antisemitism after October 7, 2023, became one of the most significant in recent decades. The peak occurred in the final months of 2023, when up to 29 attacks on Jews were recorded weekly in Germany, while in France, 563 incidents were registered in October alone—more than in the whole of 2022.

By Khagan Isayev