{"id":103746,"date":"2026-08-14T21:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/103746\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T21:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:08:14","slug":"netanyahu-mocks-united-kingdom-as-islamic-republic-of-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/103746\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu mocks United Kingdom as \u2018Islamic Republic of Britain\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> took a potshot at the United Kingdom<\/a> in a recent interview, comparing the British Isles to the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/p>\n

The premier made the remark during an interview on the Israeli podcast \u201cMelech Blitzer Haim,\u201d where he discussed the collapsing goodwill between Britain and Israel. Reflecting positively on Winston Churchill and his family\u2019s support for Israel during the Six Day War, the Israeli premier said the days of such close cooperation are over.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Churchill and his son] came here and covered the Six Day War in a way that was very positive for us. Try to find that now in Britain, which you could call the Islamic Republic of Britain,\u201d he joked to the host. \u201cTry finding that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Netanyahu\"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a news conference, in Jerusalem, Monday June 15, 2026. (Ronen Zvulun, Pool Photo via AP)<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the Europeans, all of Europe has already become like that, hasn\u2019t it?\u201d the host asked in response.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu replied: \u201cYes, but you know, someone said the first Islamic republic with nuclear weapons will be the Islamic Republic of Britain. We\u2019re making sure there won\u2019t be another one \u2014 you know, in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, Netanyahu commented<\/a> that Europe is in the process of being \u201cconquered by unchecked immigration\u201d from Islamic countries and blamed a cultural change for the decline of support from the Old Continent.<\/p>\n

Mass immigration from Islamic countries into Europe has become one of the most prominent issues on the continent, regularly topping public surveys on issues driving voters.<\/p>\n

A YouGov poll conducted last month<\/a> showed immigration was among the top three political issues for voters in all countries polled: Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.<\/p>\n

A previous YouGov poll<\/a> conducted in December found that citizens residing in Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Spain are overwhelmingly opposed to increasing the number of new migrants entering their countries. A majority from each country also voiced support for \u201cadmitting no more new migrants, and requiring large numbers of migrants who came to [respondent country] in recent years to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, a center-left politician who rose to power with a platform decrying mass immigration,\u00a0made a scorching statement on Friday<\/a> that characterized immigration \u2014 particularly from Islamic countries \u2014 as the greatest threat facing Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we talk about undemocratic forces, yes, then Russia is our biggest enemy,\u201d Frederiksen\u00a0said<\/a>. \u201cThe problem is that a major enemy has started to grow from within, and it is foreigners who have come to Europe. It is Hamas supporters. It is people who commit terror against European societies. It is people who do not recognise our fundamental European values.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Europe is threatened,\u201d she said. \u201cThe problem is that we are threatened both from outside and now from within. \u2026 Because of people with an Islamic background who do not want the open, free European society. Unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n

DANISH PM CALLS MIGRANTS WITH \u2018ISLAMIC BACKGROUND\u2019 THE GREATEST THREAT AS EUROPE BRACES FOR SECOND MIGRANT WAVE<\/a><\/p>\n

Lack of progress on immigration reform has thrust right-wing parties into the spotlight in major European Union members such as the National Rally in France and Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland in Germany.<\/p>\n

Reform UK, the right-wing anti-immigration party in the U.K. led by Nigel Farage, was undisputedly leading voter intention polls for months \u2014 but the recent change-up of leadership in Labour has buoyed the left-wing party\u2019s support<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a potshot at the United Kingdom in a recent interview, comparing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[10256,13,1469,24,469,30,3111,6],"class_list":["post-103746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-britain","tag-european-union","tag-iran","tag-islam","tag-israel","tag-podcasts","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117095910957876606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}