US reportedly considers granting asylum to Jewish people from UK
Source: The Guardian
Sun 18 Jan 2026 16.28 EST
Last modified on Sun 18 Jan 2026 17.11 EST
Discussions are reportedly under way within Donald Trumps administration about the US possibly granting asylum to Jewish people from the UK, according to the Telegraph, citing the US presidents personal lawyer.
Trump lawyer Robert Garson told the newspaper that he has held conversations with the US state department about offering refuge to British Jews who are leaving the UK citing rising antisemitism.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Guardian.
Garson, 49, said he felt the UK was no longer a safe place for Jews. He added that recent events namely an Islamist attack on a synagogue in Manchester and what he described as widespread antisemitism following the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 had led him to believe that British Jews should be given the option of sanctuary in the US.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/18/trump-uk-jewish-asylum
It's literally like every day I'll open a link to some news article and exclaim "What is this?"
Were they NOT paying attention when this happened less than a week ago - FBI says man targeted Mississippi synagogue in arson attack because of its 'Jewish ties'

This happened in the "good 'ole U.S.A." in the "good 'ole South". And it was the SAME synagogue that the KKK torched almost 60 years ago - Mississippi synagogue congregant shares story of 1967 Ku Klux Klan bombing
moonshinegnomie
(3,903 posts)PatSeg
(52,288 posts)Nothing makes any sense anymore.
RockCreek
(1,397 posts)I'm referring to the list of Jewish faculty, students, etc that the admin has been trying to compel UPenn to compile and turn over.
BaronChocula
(4,067 posts)choie
(6,689 posts)that type of antiseitism doesn't get people riled up.
erronis
(22,794 posts)I mean, really. Why would anyone want to emigrate to the US - unless they were skin-head nazis?
Deep State Witch
(12,600 posts)Shouldn't it be the other way around - the UK offering asylum to Americans?
Maru Kitteh
(31,303 posts)paleotn
(21,679 posts)Or these young Donnie supporters in Charlottesville.
https://www.brandeis.edu/jewish-experience/jewish-america/2021/november/replacement-antisemitism-sarna.html
What short, selective memories some have.
purr-rat beauty
(1,013 posts)Someplace else
I wouldn't trust the very apparent naziism in the gov't
ananda
(34,502 posts)The last place in hell to seek asylum is the USA.
Skittles
(169,818 posts)over which eye?
"both"
The Grand Illuminist
(2,011 posts)nt
Behind the Aegis
(55,951 posts)That is to say: NOT AT ALL!
Jewish lives are nothing but fodder.