Trump administration may offer asylum to British Jews

President Trump’s UK-born personal lawyer says Britain is “no longer a safe place for Jews,” broaching the idea with the president of granting British Jews asylum in the United States.

By World Israel News Staff

President Donald Trump is mulling a proposal to grant refugee status to British Jews seeking asylum from antisemitism in their home country, a confidant of the president said.

On Monday, The Telegraph published a report based on an interview with Robert Garson, a British Jew living in Florida employed by Trump as his personal attorney.

Garson, a longtime advocate of self-defense training for Jews and an NRA-certified firearms instructor, told The Telegraph that he is increasingly concerned about the growing antisemitism in his native country, with a particular emphasis on radical Islamism.

Recently, Garson proposed a plan to the Trump administration under which British Jews would be permitted to immigrate en masse to the United States as asylum seekers.

Garson said he has raised the issue with Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, President Trump’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism.

Britain is home to some 300,000 Jews, making it the fifth-largest Jewish community in the world, after Israel, the United States, France, and Canada.

Rabbi Kaploun, whose office is part of the US State Department, is said to be “receptive” to the plan drafted by Garson.

The asylum plan was a response in part to the deadly Islamist terror attack on a synagogue in his hometown of Manchester last October.

While the United States has also experienced a sharp increase in antisemitism since Oct. 7, Garson believes British Jews would be more secure in the United States, in part due to the wider availability of private firearms.

“I know that in a God-forbid situation, there are 200 armed Jewish guys who could mobilize in a few seconds,” Garson said.