The victory of the hard right wing nationalist misogynist United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) in the European Union elections might help the Jewish community’s campaign to protect shechita (Jewish ritual slaughter) and other Jewish religious practices like circumcision because the ultra-nationalists who lead UKIP are opposed to any regulations imposed on member states by the European Parliament, Britain’s top advocate for Jewish ritual slaughter claimed.
Victory Of Hared Right Wing Nationalists Good For The Jews, British Pro-Shechita Advocate Claims
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
The victory of the hard right wing nationalist misogynist United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) in the European Union elections might help the Jewish community’s campaign to protect shechita (Jewish ritual slaughter) and other Jewish religious practices like circumcision because the ultra-nationalists who lead UKIP are opposed to any regulations imposed on member states by the European Parliament, Britain’s top advocate for Jewish ritual slaughter claimed, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported.
24 UKIP candidates were elected and the party netted 27.5% of the British vote.
Polling conducted last year by the Jewish Chronicle reportedly showed UKIP supporters were more hostile to religious slaughter than those of any other political party in Britain.
But Shimon Cohen, the director of Shechita UK – the Jewish community’s ’shechita defense’ organization backed by, among others, Kedassia, a haredi kosher supervision – insisted UKIP was “supportive” of its campaign to protect kosher slaughter.
“UKIP’s record on shechita has been both favorable and consistent. Our objection to various European regulations which would have interfered with shechita fits comfortably with their disdain for European regulation of any kind. As a result we have had a series of positive meetings with [party leader] Nigel Farage and Stuart Agnew, UKIP’s spokesman on agricultural issues,” Cohen reportedly said.
Cohen and Shechita UK have a history of misstating facts and citing questionable, decades-old and often non-peer-reviewed research on shechita to ‘prove’ the humaneness of kosher slaughter.