Is it anti-semetic incidents, or people is it people expressing anger at Israel’s imminent collective punishment of a nation of people’s they’ve herded into the world’s largest open-air prison whilst they systematically annex their land and ethnically cleanse them?
I saw a video of a young man being arrested today for having a Palestinian flag draped around his neck—he was Palestinian. I suppose that arrest will be contributing towards these “anti-semetic” incident stats.
IDF are out in force today, huh.
Sadly not surprising. While the *vast* majority of people are rightly sickened by what Hamas did on Saturday, antisemitic hate crimes generally rise whenever Israel start lobbing bombs into Gaza.
Quick build a shrine for people to visit for the victims of being actually being antisemitic fools. People can go there, burn flags, chant for death and all the normal things you might do in the middle of a conflict full of death and suffering.
Think of the children, who are antisemitic fools but are also somehow a victim of a conflict a thousand miles away.
Think of the adults who are antisemitic fools but also a conflict they saw on facebook meant they should go and be racist and also somehow that makes them a victim.
People need therapists not echo chambers 🙁
Protesting or showing support for Palestine isn’t itself antisemitism. This is perfectly okay.
Now, causing harm to or encouraging harm against Jews is. This is not okay. Infact, encouraging harm against anyone or any group is not okay.
Often you will hear cries of antisemitism used as a means of stiffing free speech and freedom of expression. This is fascism. Not okay.
Rise in anti Israel incidents being recorded as antisemitism. Two completely different things.
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I can assure you that these antisemitic incidents are not coming from my community. Our community is welcoming, accepting and inclusive of all people.
These incidents are coming from the religious community.
I wonder who’s perpetrating the attacks, because the news isn’t specifying for some reason
This is what I love about living in a multicultutal society: when there’s an ethnic conflict on another continent, we get to experience it first hand without having to even leave our home town.
Are we surprised? Can fly a BLM flag, Pride flag and anything else, but a the flag of a repressed people is seen as antagonistic.
This is unacceptable. The jewish people in the uk have no responsibility for the actions of the israeli state. Just as the Palestinian people of the uk have no responsibility for the actions of hamas. Couldve sworn we went over this with the muslim community and al-quaeda/isil back in the 00’s and 10’s
Let’s all hope this doesn’t get worse.
I support Israel, but don’t support exporting the conflict elsewhere. No attacks on Muslim or Jewish citizens of this country.
From the article, this is interesting:
>Three Jewish schools in north London closed for the day on Friday, with some citing planned protests in support of Palestinians.
And then a few paragraphs down:
> DAC Taylor confirmed that there had not been any specific threats to schools in London.
I’ve seen headlines about these school closures before and thought some antisemitic fucks had been threatening these kids.
Interesting to learn there’s been no threats and it’s purely the worry of pro Palestine protests causing the closure.
I get it of course. I just think it’s interesting how much the school closures are being reported on as evidence of antisemitic behaviour when it isn’t.
It is important to be mindful of the distinction between antisemitism and criticism of Israel’s behaviour. Israel’s rulers and the IDF would very much love to conflate the two and have pushed that narrative pretty extensively. It is essential we do not fall into that trap. Anti-Zionist is not anti-Jew. Criticising Israel for perpetrating atrocities is not antisemitic.
But that’s not what this is.
*This* is Jewish people and businesses being intimidated, attacked and vandalised in their home country because of a conflict several countries away that they are not responsible for and have nothing to do with. It’s Jewish schools closing because they’re frightened their children might be attacked. And that absolutely is antisemitism.
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Is it anti-semetic incidents, or people is it people expressing anger at Israel’s imminent collective punishment of a nation of people’s they’ve herded into the world’s largest open-air prison whilst they systematically annex their land and ethnically cleanse them?
I saw a video of a young man being arrested today for having a Palestinian flag draped around his neck—he was Palestinian. I suppose that arrest will be contributing towards these “anti-semetic” incident stats.
IDF are out in force today, huh.
Sadly not surprising. While the *vast* majority of people are rightly sickened by what Hamas did on Saturday, antisemitic hate crimes generally rise whenever Israel start lobbing bombs into Gaza.
Quick build a shrine for people to visit for the victims of being actually being antisemitic fools. People can go there, burn flags, chant for death and all the normal things you might do in the middle of a conflict full of death and suffering.
Think of the children, who are antisemitic fools but are also somehow a victim of a conflict a thousand miles away.
Think of the adults who are antisemitic fools but also a conflict they saw on facebook meant they should go and be racist and also somehow that makes them a victim.
People need therapists not echo chambers 🙁
Protesting or showing support for Palestine isn’t itself antisemitism. This is perfectly okay.
Now, causing harm to or encouraging harm against Jews is. This is not okay. Infact, encouraging harm against anyone or any group is not okay.
Often you will hear cries of antisemitism used as a means of stiffing free speech and freedom of expression. This is fascism. Not okay.
Rise in anti Israel incidents being recorded as antisemitism. Two completely different things.
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I can assure you that these antisemitic incidents are not coming from my community. Our community is welcoming, accepting and inclusive of all people.
These incidents are coming from the religious community.
I wonder who’s perpetrating the attacks, because the news isn’t specifying for some reason
This is what I love about living in a multicultutal society: when there’s an ethnic conflict on another continent, we get to experience it first hand without having to even leave our home town.
Are we surprised? Can fly a BLM flag, Pride flag and anything else, but a the flag of a repressed people is seen as antagonistic.
This is unacceptable. The jewish people in the uk have no responsibility for the actions of the israeli state. Just as the Palestinian people of the uk have no responsibility for the actions of hamas. Couldve sworn we went over this with the muslim community and al-quaeda/isil back in the 00’s and 10’s
Let’s all hope this doesn’t get worse.
I support Israel, but don’t support exporting the conflict elsewhere. No attacks on Muslim or Jewish citizens of this country.
From the article, this is interesting:
>Three Jewish schools in north London closed for the day on Friday, with some citing planned protests in support of Palestinians.
And then a few paragraphs down:
> DAC Taylor confirmed that there had not been any specific threats to schools in London.
I’ve seen headlines about these school closures before and thought some antisemitic fucks had been threatening these kids.
Interesting to learn there’s been no threats and it’s purely the worry of pro Palestine protests causing the closure.
I get it of course. I just think it’s interesting how much the school closures are being reported on as evidence of antisemitic behaviour when it isn’t.
It is important to be mindful of the distinction between antisemitism and criticism of Israel’s behaviour. Israel’s rulers and the IDF would very much love to conflate the two and have pushed that narrative pretty extensively. It is essential we do not fall into that trap. Anti-Zionist is not anti-Jew. Criticising Israel for perpetrating atrocities is not antisemitic.
But that’s not what this is.
*This* is Jewish people and businesses being intimidated, attacked and vandalised in their home country because of a conflict several countries away that they are not responsible for and have nothing to do with. It’s Jewish schools closing because they’re frightened their children might be attacked. And that absolutely is antisemitism.