He converted, now how many Jews do you know? I grew up with the community (reform mostly), to do something like that was treasonous beyond belief. His yiddish character is open to debate but having converted and received the Anglican sacraments at 12, which he kept all his life
faithfully it's hard to argue he was Jewish in the sense that all know. Very often it was his detractors and critics who delved into the area.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/150-y...-only-jewish-leader-changed-politics-forever/
Disraeli was the subject of vicious anti-Semitic attacks from his political opponents
You might want to read up on his life about how much importance he gave to his birth culture/nation;
he seemed to have little understanding of Jewish practices and made more than a few errors.
Disraeli’s writings were also seemingly contradictory. His novels occasionally featured Jewish characters that clearly drew on then common anti-Semitic depictions — his description of a Jewish money-lender, Levison, is particularly vulgar — while the Jewish wiseman Sidonia in “Coningsby” outlines a picture of Jews working through “subterranean agencies” to control world events that was later gleefully seized upon and repeated by virulent anti-Semites.
Although at times his writing were balanced referring to the birth right of jews;
At other times, however, Disraeli’s novels laud Jews and the superiority of “The Hebrew.” Christianity, one of them states, was founded by a Jew at a time when the English were mere “tattooed savages.”
But again people point out that this was a savage rebuke to his critics.
The article states this;
As Cesarani has suggested, Disraeli’s assertion of “Jewish rights based on Jewish superiority” may well have been meant as a signal to his Tory colleagues “that he would never surrender to their prejudices.”
He did champion the cause of British Jews to enter parliament, in part due to heritage and in part due to reform.
The best way to describe him was a half-way house for the two great Semitic traditions, and Disraeli himself alludes to this;
“the blank page between the Old and New Testaments.”
As for Jewish leaders being the leaders of the opposition do please look at the timelines, they were poor in comparison to the leaders they should have unseated and also seen as unelectable. Howard famously was shunned by Bush, something unthinkable for American/Anglo ties, even though the latter backed the invasion of Iraq. He lost the election in 2005. Miliband is even worse and was the butt of all jokes media and public wise.
Jewish folks holding strong positions in the past and now means nothing considering other minorities also have. It certainly isn't a prelude to becoming prime minister.
What on earth are you going on about? Sajid Javid started as chancellor in July and during his time prepared the nation to leave the EU without a deal, stood by Johnson to suspend parliament (something the prime minister came under huge fire for ), oversaw the bringing out of the Brexit coin to commemorate the leaving of the EU and supported/lobbied for the appointment of the competent Andrew Bailey as head of the Bank of England. He was named as chancellor after the thunderous 2019 November win and carried on till February.
Had Boris wanted him out he would have got rid of him after the election. You do also know they have been friends for years don't you?
You literally are now making things up....
Javid left the job after he and treasury fell out with special advisor Dominic Cummings, who had sacked a close aide of Javid. Cummings was also looking at replacing much of the treasury which he believed had pro-EU leanings, he even offered Javid a chance to do this and stay in the job, something widely reported in the press. He didn't and stood by the treasury, so resigned. He even joked about this in prime minister's questions i.e. the "cummings and goings", I'll put up the video;
The British people loved Javid and he was widely praised in the right wing press.
As for the public they couldn't care less about ethnicity when it comes to jobs other than prime minister as long as the person can do the job well, hence why you see Sunak and Patel there. Also the reason for the representation for British Indians being high at this point in time are two, one being time cycles i.e. these politicians have had significant time in the party and now received roles, with old colleagues leaving.
The British Pakistani community had the same with Sayeeda Warsi who was at one time co-chairman of the party and whilst Javid was a rising star in the treasury.
The second is British Indians in the country have embraced the conservatives at a greater participation level than British Pakistanis.
UK will have a non white prime minister soon, ok carry on with that idea. Tag me when it happens, not in our lifetimes for sure.
