JOAN SALTER WAS WRONG TO CRITICISE UK POLICY

I have every respect for refugee Joan Salter for what she and every Jewish person experienced in pogroms or the final horrors of the Holocaust.

As a Christian I agree that western Christian nations are particularly guilty of antisemitism, which still exists today; albeit exacerbated by different influences up and down the country on behalf of Palestine. Yet, regardless of what minister Suella Braverman said about refugees, it is illogical for Joan to rail against British culture, traditions, values and sense of nationhood. As a Christian I support Israel’s right to self-determination as a sovereign democratic Jewish nation. I also support British principles, just as I back the right of various UK Jewish communities to go about their lives without fear or intimidation.

But as an Englishman and a Christian, whose forebears fought for this nation down through the years, I do not accept the idea that we abandon all that makes us distinctly British and embrace unlimited immigration by whatever means.

I don’t accept it for Israel and I don’t accept it for the UK. John Winlow, By email