Discussions are underway inside President Donald Trump’s orbit about the United States potentially offering asylum to Jewish people from the United Kingdom.

The talks were disclosed by Robert Garson, Trump’s personal lawyer, who told the Telegraph that he has raised the possibility with officials at the U.S. State Department. Garson said the conversations focus on providing refuge to British Jews who are leaving the UK amid rising antisemitism.

“The UK is no longer a safe place for Jews,” Garson said, citing an Islamist attack on Yom Kippur at a shul in Manchester and a surge of antisemitism following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza. “I have spoken to the State Department as to whether the president should be offering British Jews asylum in the U.S.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Guardian.

Garson, a former British barrister who practiced in London before relocating to the U.S. in 2008, placed much of the blame on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, accusing his government of allowing antisemitism to fester. “I see no future for Jews in the United Kingdom,” Garson said, adding that he has discussed the issue with multiple figures inside the Trump administration.

He argued that granting refuge would be politically and economically attractive for the U.S., describing British Jews as “a highly educated community” that is English-speaking and low-crime.

Garson said he also raised the proposal with Yehuda Kaploun, Trump’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, during his work as a board member of the US Holocaust Memorial Council. Trump appointed Garson to the council in May after removing members named during the Biden administration.

The suggestion comes as Trump has taken a hard line on refugees more broadly. In October, his administration announced plans to cap refugee admissions in 2026 at just 7,500, with most slots earmarked for white South Africans. It remains unclear how, or whether, British Jews would fit into that framework.

A 2025 survey by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research found that 35 percent of British Jews now feel unsafe in the UK, up from just 9 percent in 2023. Nearly half said antisemitism is a “very big” problem, a dramatic increase from a decade earlier.

Pro-Israel advocates in Britain argue that mass protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, which followed the Oct. 7 attacks, often blur into antisemitism. Garson has echoed that view, previously describing U.S. protesters as “marauding mobs” shouting “antisemitic chants baying for Jewish blood.”

For now, the notion of asylum for British Jews remains informal and exploratory, floated by a close Trump ally rather than embraced publicly by the administration. But even raising it signals how far Trump’s circle is willing to go in recasting traditional alliances and refugee policy through the lens of antisemitism, Israel and demographic politics.

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