It is a historical twist few would have predicted. A Jewish billionaire born in Cardiff to parents who fled Nazi Germany now says he feels uneasy enough about life in Britain to seek German citizenship. Sir Michael Moritz, one of the UK’s wealthiest businessmen and a veteran Silicon Valley investor, has described Britain as “an uncomfortable place for Jews today”, arguing that antisemitism feels more visible and more socially tolerated than many would like to admit.
Moritz, whose paternal grandparents were murdered in the Holocaust, says his decision to apply for a German passport is less about relocation and more about reassurance. Germany, he argues, has built Holocaust remembrance into the core of its civic identity. The symbolism is striking. A country that once expelled his family is now, in his view, offering a deeper institutional reckoning with antisemitism than the one he perceives in modern Britain.
