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Results of 2017 BBC World Service poll
Views of the United Kingdom's influence by country^[1]
(sorted by net positive, Pos – Neg)

Country polled	Pos.	Neg.	Neutral	Pos – Neg
Turkey	34%	47%	19%	-13
Pakistan	20%	29%	51%	-9
Spain	34%	42%	24%	-8
Russia	24%	32%	44%	-8
Brazil	33%	39%	28%	-6
Peru	41%	29%	30%	+12
India	33%	20%	47%	+13
Germany	35%	18%	47%	+17
Greece	42%	22%	34%	+20
France	63%	32%	5%	+31
Mexico	53%	22%	25%	+31
Indonesia	51%	18%	31%	+33
Kenya	69%	20%	11%	+49
China	73%	19%	8%	+54
Canada	73%	18%	9%	+55
Nigeria	76%	15%	9%	+61
Australia	76%	15%	9%	+61
United States	79%	10%	11%	+69

Results of 2014 BBC World Service poll
Views of the United Kingdom's influence by country^[2]
(sorted by net positive, Pos – Neg)

Country polled	Positive	Negative	Neutral	Pos-Neg
Argentina	29%	39%	32%	-10
Pakistan	39%	35%	26%	+4
Spain	41%	36%	23%	+5
Turkey	39%	30%	31%	+9
China	39%	26%	35%	+13
Mexico	40%	25%	35%	+15
India	43%	27%	30%	+16
Germany	51%	34%	15%	+17
Peru	41%	21%	38%	+20
Brazil	45%	25%	30%	+20
Russia	44%	16%	40%	+28
Chile	45%	15%	40%	+30
Indonesia	59%	26%	15%	+33
Israel	50%	6%	44%	+44
Japan	47%	2%	51%	+45
Nigeria	67%	22%	11%	+45
United Kingdom	72%	23%	5%	+49
France	72%	20%	8%	+52
Australia	73%	18%	9%	+54
South Korea	74%	14%	12%	+60
Kenya	74%	10%	16%	+64
Ghana	78%	9%	13%	+69
Canada	80%	9%	11%	+71
United States	81%	10%	9%	+71

This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. (March 2022)

Anti-British sentiment is the prejudice against, persecution of, discrimination against, fear of, dislike of, or hatred against the British Government, British people, or the culture of the United Kingdom.

Argentina

Anti-British sentiment in Argentina originates from the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute and the 1982 Falklands War, as well as hostility among the Argentinian people towards British investment in Argentina together with the disproportional political influence Britain was once perceived to weild in the country, as exemplified by the controversial Roca–Runciman Treaty in 1933.^{[3][page needed]}. Due to these sentiments, protests against the government of the United Kingdom have occasionally occurred in Argentina.^[4]

Germany

Gott strafe England (English: May god punish England) was an anti-British slogan coined by poet Ernst Lissauer during World War I. It was used by the Imperial German Army as well as the German public during World War I.^[5] In 1946, a crowd of Germans in Hamburg chanted the song.^[6]

South Asia

In India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the Indian independence movement encouraged this sentiment, which was borne out of opposition against British colonial and imperial activities in these countries, called British Raj.^[7]

Iran

Anti-British sentiment, sometimes described as Anglophobia, has been described as "deeply entrenched in Iranian culture",

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 to Iran, and also from the media in Britain.^[12]

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. Iranian politicians reportedly shouted "Death to Britain".^[13] On 29 November 2011, Iranian students in Tehran stormed the British embassy, ransacked offices, smashed windows, shouted "Death to England" and burned the Union Jack.^[14]

Parts of the Iranian media campaigned against the reopening of the British Embassy in Tehran in August 2015, referring to Britain as an "old fox " – a term popularised by the Pakistani writer Seyyed Ahmad Adib Pishavari (born Peshawar 1844, died Tehran 1930) – and accusing Britain of having provoked protests against the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009.^[15]

Ireland

There is a long history of anti-British prejudice and of specifically

On 2 February 1972, an angry mob, in an outraged response to Bloody Sunday committed by British paratroopers a few days earlier on 30 January and consisting of an estimated 20,000-100,000 people, burned down the British Embassy in Dublin. On 12 May 1981, during the 1981 Irish hunger strike, 2,000 people tried to storm the British Embassy in Dublin.^[22]

In 2011, tensions and anti-English or anti-British feelings flared in relation to the proposed state visit of

Even so, following the announcement of Queen Elizabeth II's death on 8 September 2022, a video of hardcore Shamrock Rovers fans chanting "Lizzie's in a box, in a box, Lizzie's in a box!" to the tune of KC and the Sunshine Band's "Give It Up" at a UEFA Europa Conference League group stage match in Dublin circulated on social media.^[24]

Israel

The relationship between Israel and the UK is generally regarded as close and warm,^[25] and as a strategic partnership of the two nations.^[26] According to the a BBC World Service poll in 2014,^[2] five in ten Israelis (50%) have favourable attitudes to the UK, and only 6% of Israelis hold negative views towards the UK, the second lowest percentage after Japan.

Occasional criticism is also found. 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.^{[27][28][29][30]}

The Jewish population of the United Kingdom was recorded as being 269,568 in the 2011 Census. Reacting to 609 anti-Semitic incidents across the UK in the first half of 2009,^[29] and to the announcement of numerous UK organizations to impose a boycott on Israel,^[30] some Israelis claimed that the UK is anti-Israeli and Antisemitic.^[27][28] According to an opinion piece by Eytan Gilboa, "the British media systematically supports the Palestinians, and openly slants its reporting about Israel and Israeli policy. The left-wing Guardian and Independent newspapers regularly print accusatory, anti-Israel editorials, and their correspondents in Israel file biased, and occasionally false, reports. The supposedly prestigious BBC has long been a sounding board to trumpet Palestinian propaganda."^[30] In 2010 Ron Breiman, a former chairman of the right-wing organisation "Professors for a Strong Israel", claimed in one of Israel's leading newspapers, Haaretz, that the United Kingdom has raised and armed Israel's enemies in Jordan and the Arab Legion and described the British media as anti-Israeli.^[31]

Reacting to the UK government's decision to expel an Israeli diplomat because of Mossad's forging of 12 British passports for an assassination operation in 2010, former National Union members of the Israeli parliament Michael Ben-Ari and Aryeh Eldad accused the British government of being "anti-semitic" and referred to them as "dogs".^[32][33]

Spain

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.^[35]

During the

The sentiment of dislike [there] towards England is increasing, because English subjects have assisted the South by smuggling and running the blockade.^[44]

The U.S. administration of President Ulysses S. Grant sued Britain in 1869 over its complicity in allowing commerce raiders to leave British ports for use against the United States Merchant Marine shipping in the Alabama Claims. Blockade runners from Britain was later added to the charge, as many U.S. officials claimed that without the arms supplies being smuggled by British subjects through the Union blockade to the Confederacy, the war would have ended by 1863, and American casualties and cost of war would have been greatly reduced.^{[45][36][37][38]} The international arbitration in Geneva in 1872 however rejected claims for compensation from the British blockade running, but did order Britain to pay $15.5 million to the U.S. as a result of damages caused by British-built Confederate commerce raiders.^[36]

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. He attributed it especially to:

partly the hard-core of anglophobes (Irish, Germans and isolationists); partly the frustration produced by war without early victories; partly our bad behaviour at Singapore; and partly the tendency common to all countries at war to blame their allies for doing nothing.^[46]

Senior American military officers often tried, with little success, to push against Roosevelt's 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. Grasse who published The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined the World,^[48] although this work is partly tongue in cheek and forms part of a larger media project launched by the author.

Roland Emmerich's 2000 movie The Patriot drew controversy for its depiction of British forces during the American Revolutionary War,^[49] depicting them as engaging in acts such as the burning of a church with civilians inside it in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution. The Liverpool City Council went on to claim that the film misrepresented British general Banastre Tarleton and sought an apology from the producers.^[50] Other commentators noted that a similar incident was committed by German troops in the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in World War II, and suggested that the film producers may have had, consciously or subconsciously, an anti-British agenda in changing the nationalities and relocating the event to an earlier and different conflict^[51][52] and one stated that it was similar to a "blood libel".^[53]

Derogatory terms

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