The church issued the apology on the 800th anniversary of the passage of laws that led to the Jews' expulsion.

As some Christian leaders iblame Jews for diminishing Christian numbers in the Holy Land, the true culprit goes unnamed.

Politicians who fail to tackle environmental issues will be condemned 'in far stronger terms than we speak today of the politicians of the '30s who ignored what was happening in Nazi Germany,' the archbishop said.

The Archbishop recognized that the Chief Rabbi's public post represented an 'insecurity and fear felt by many British Jews.'

'For the last 150 years there has been a Jewish majority in Jerusalem. Even under the Ottoman Empire there was a Jewish majority in Jerusalem.'

In an address to leading Jewish figures in the United Kingdom, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby vowed to take rising anti-Semitism in the U.K. and within his church “seriously.”