{"id":30848,"date":"2016-06-24T11:21:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T17:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=30848"},"modified":"2016-06-24T13:27:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T19:27:30","slug":"the-brexit-six-things-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/the-brexit-six-things-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brexit: 6 things you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Great Britain and the rest of Europe woke up to a new reality Friday as a slim\u00a0majority of British voters said their country should leave the European Union. Markets trembled,\u00a0British currency crashed and British Prime Minister David Cameron announced his pending\u00a0resignation. It was a major blow to an alliance formed specifically to avoid a repeat of the nationalist rivalries\u00a0that led to the First and Second World Wars.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30849\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/brexit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30849\" class=\"wp-image-30849 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/brexit-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY - JUNE 24: A TV reporter pose with a Great Britain flag at the Frankfurt Stock exchange the day after a majority of the British population voted for leaving the European Union on June 24, 2016 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Many prominent corporate CEOs and leading economists have warned that a Brexit would have strongly negative consequences for the British economy and repercussions across Europe as well. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes\/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/brexit-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/brexit-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/188;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30849\" class=\"wp-image-30849 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/brexit-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY - JUNE 24: A TV reporter pose with a Great Britain flag at the Frankfurt Stock exchange the day after a majority of the British population voted for leaving the European Union on June 24, 2016 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Many prominent corporate CEOs and leading economists have warned that a Brexit would have strongly negative consequences for the British economy and repercussions across Europe as well. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes\/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/brexit-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/brexit-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-30849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A slim majority of British citizens have voted to leave the European Union. (Thomas Lohnes\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Although Britain\u2019s Jews appeared as split as the rest of the country over the \u201cBrexit,\u201d at least one prominent Jewish voice \u2014 Stephen Pollard, editor of The Jewish Chronicle newspaper,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejc.com\/comment-and-debate\/comment\/159720\/brexit-its-a-wonderful-day-britain-and-its-jews\" target=\"_blank\">welcomed<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0vote as \u201ca wonderful day for Britain \u2014\u00a0and its Jews.\u201d P0llard\u2019s argument: Britain is now free to chart its own course when it comes to Jewish interests, curbing extremism and supporting Israel. \u201c[A]way from the Brussels bartering and negotiations that lie behind the EU\u2019s foreign policy, Britain will be free to carve out an even more supportive stance, should we wish to,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>But Pollard\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jewishnews.timesofisrael.com\/jewish-community-reacts-to-britains-decision-to-leave-the-eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">hardly spoke for all British Jews<\/a>, and the impact of the vote may not be as clearcut as he makes it out to be. Here are six\u00a0things\u00a0you need to know about the Brexit vote:<\/p>\n<p><strong>No comment, please \u2014 we\u2019re British Jews.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The representatives of British Jewry have remained strictly neutral on the Brexit issue because it divides their community of approximately 250,000 people as cleanly as it does the general population, according to a\u00a0Jewish Chronicle survey from last month. And while prominent British Jewish figures like sociologist David Hirsch lamented the result as the outcome of xenophobia and fear, other notable British Jews celebrated it as a release from Brussels\u2019 dictates\u00a0\u2013 including the Conservative European Parliament lawmaker Daniel Hannan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s not over.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The June 23 referendum, in which 52 percent voted in the affirmative, is not binding. The prime minister may put the issue up to a vote in Parliament, where a majority is believed to be in favor of remaining. That said, shoving this policy down voters\u2019 throats would be highly controversial, if not incendiary. But then again, so is leaving the EU.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goodbye, chum.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cameron, who bet his political future on a remain vote and announced his resignation following the result, has been an exceptionally good friend to British Jews\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/likud-minister-sad-to-see-cameron-go-praises-his-israel-support\/\" target=\"_blank\">and to Israel<\/a>, his critics and supporters agree. Under him, Britain began drafting laws outlawing the boycott effort against Israel and he has allocated an extra $17 million toward protecting Jewish communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hello, mates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The people likeliest to replace Cameron within the Conservative party have serious pro-Israel and pro-Jewish credentials, too. Boris Johnson, a sharp-tongued former mayor of London who supported Brexit, last year dismissed those seeking to isolate Israel through BDS as \u201clefty academics\u201d who were unlikely to have influence in Britain, prompting his Palestinian hosts to cancel meetings planned for him in the\u00a0West Bank. Michael\u00a0Gove, another Conservative Brexit supporter and Britain\u2019s justice secretary, has had a central role in anti-boycott legislation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Collateral damage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vote hurt not only the leader of the Conservative party, but also Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Labour. A former supporter of less EU intervention in British politics, he nonetheless supported remaining in the European Union and campaigned for this outcome. Now, he is facing internal criticism over his perceived failure to deliver. The many Labour voters who supported Brexit are cited by his rivals within Labour as further proof that Corbyn, who is already facing internal opposition over his downplaying of Labour\u2019s anti-Semitism problem, suffers from leadership issues.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong>Good news for Trump?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Brexit vote shocked Britain because many deemed it unthinkable or undoable, believing that, despite the polls, Brexiters would eventually vote to Bremain so as not to rock the boat or cause a currency crash (it happened: the pound dropped to a 31-year low of $1.35 against the dollar). Donald Trump, in Scotland\u00a0<span class=\"\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"\">Friday<\/span><\/span>for the\u00a0opening of one of his golf courses, was quick to interpret Brexit as a hopeful sign for his own presidential bid, which has taken him from Republican Party dark horse to presumptive nominee during a campaign focused on isolationism and opposition to immigration. \u201cI really see a parallel between what\u2019s happening in the United States and what\u2019s happening here, people want to see borders,\u201d he said in Scotland. \u201cIt\u2019s happening in the United States, it\u2019s happening by the fact that I\u2019ve done so well in the polls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t the only one seeing parallels: Bill Kristol, the\u00a0prominent Jewish neoconservative, said the surprising outcome could reflect a tendency on the\u00a0part of pollsters to undercount\u00a0the right-wing vote \u2014\u00a0as they did when Cameron and Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu won elections in 2015 \u00a0\u2014 and that Trump may be doing better than it seems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"The%20Brexit%3A%206%20things%20you%20need%20to%20know\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[7913,1513,8790,8795,8788,1642],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30851,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848\/revisions\/30851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}