For prejudice against England and the English people only, see Anglophobia. For prejudice against Scotland and the Scottish people only, british estonian relations Anti-Scottish sentiment.
Results of 2014 BBC World Service poll. A view of shops with anti-British and pro-Independence signs, Valletta, Malta, c. Anti-British feeling in Argentina stems mainly from the Falkland Islands dispute and the Falklands War in 1982 with the United Kingdom. Due to this, anti-British and anti-NATO protests and acts of vandalism do erupt.
In the Indian independence movement, this sentiment was common. Anglophobia, has been described as “deeply entrenched in Iranian culture”, and reported to be increasingly prevalent in Iran. On Monday 9 August 2010, the senior Iranian minister and Iran’s first vice president Mohammad Reza Rahimi declared that the British people were “stupid” and “not human”. His remarks drew criticism from Simon Gass, the British ambassador in Iran, and also from the media in Britain. In November 2011 the Iranian parliament voted to downgrade relations with the UK after British sanctions were imposed on Iran due to its nuclear programme.
Politicians reportedly shouted “Death to Britain”. On 29 November 2011, Iranian students in Tehran stormed the British embassy, ransacked offices, smashed windows, shouted “Death to England” and burned the British flag. A Great Famine mural in Belfast. There is a long tradition of anti-British sentiment, and often more specifically Anglophobia, within Irish nationalism. Much of this was grounded in the hostility felt by the largely Catholic poor for the Anglo-Irish gentry, which was mainly Anglican. In post-famine Ireland, anti-English hostility was adopted into the philosophy and foundation of the Irish nationalist movement. A feeling of anti-English sentiment intensified within Irish nationalism during the Boer War leading to xenophobia underlined by Anglophobia.
In 2011, tensions and anti-English or anti-British feelings flared in relation to the proposed visit of Elizabeth II, the first British monarch to visit Ireland in 101 years. The relationship between Israel and the UK is generally regarded as close and warm, and as a strategic partnership of the two nations. In Israel, anti-British sentiment may historically stem from British rule and policies in the mandate era, and in modern times from the perceived anti-Israel stance of the British media. The Jewish population of the United Kingdom was recorded as being 269,568 in the 2011 Census.
Anti-British sentiments evolved in Spain following the ceding of Gibraltar to the British through the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 following the War of the Spanish Succession. BP” as its official corporate name and brand, BP was known as British Petroleum. President Thomas Jefferson complained of an unreasonable hostility towards the British state by the people in the United States during the Napoleonic Wars, brought about by the American Revolutionary War. During the World War II alliance, anti-British sentiment took different forms. In May 1942, when conditions were highly problematic for British prospects, American journalist Edward R. Murrow privately gave a British friend an analysis of the sources of persistent anti-British sentiment in the United States. Senior American military officers often tried, with little success, to push against Roosevelt support for Britain.
In the 21st century, the Special Relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom has come under attack by advertising executive Steven A. Jonathan Freedland, If this crisis can be overcome, think about the negotiations that matter, The Guardian, 4 April 2007. Ali Ansari, Why Iran is obsessed with the British wily fox, The Times, 25 June 2009. Tara Bahrampour, In Wake of Unrest, Britain Replacing U. Iran’s Great Satan, Washington Post, 17 July 2009.
