Sickening antisemitic attack.

Unfortunately I fear that certain groups have no limit to their depth of their hate.

Sickening - up there with the foul people at Bondi. Imagine if it had been any other group - there would be an absolute outcry and uni students would be flying flags and going on marches.

Very worrying news.

Appalling. I do fear for our Jewish people when thugs like this are on our streets.

Thank goodness it was just the Hatzola vehicles and no person was injured.

nanna8

Sickening - up there with the foul people at Bondi. Imagine if it had been any other group - there would be an absolute outcry and uni students would be flying flags and going on marches.

It's horrible.

I don't think the outcry is any lower than it would have been for 'any other group' though. And these days it is far from only students who protest and march. I'm not sure what the point of a march would be though. Usually marches are a way of showing rebellion or discontent against the government other than to garner public support for a cause.

In this case a march might show solidarity with the Jewish community, but a government spokesman has already said that if this is shown to be an anti-semitic attack (which it surely must be?) they will do everything in their power to stamp it out. He mentioned education initiatives, but they can take so long to filter through that I think they need more immediate measures.

This is just disgusting and frightening, knowing that people have so much hate directed against a Jewish community.

The Jewish community are a tiny percentage of our population, yet seem to attract a vastly disproportionate amount of prejudice and hate.

The vile antisemitic thugs that set the ambulances on fire didn't care whether or not anyone was physically injured, it's just fortunate that nobody was. The lasting emotional damage to people from such attacks needs to be recognised.

Seems nothing has been learned from the past. I am horrified by this attack and hope the Jewish community is supported in dealing with this.

Shocking. Hope they are caught soon.

Rosie51

The Jewish community are a tiny percentage of our population, yet seem to attract a vastly disproportionate amount of prejudice and hate.

The vile antisemitic thugs that set the ambulances on fire didn't care whether or not anyone was physically injured, it's just fortunate that nobody was. The lasting emotional damage to people from such attacks needs to be recognised.

How anyone can target ambulances is beyond me. It's so low - akin to targeting children or the elderly. And yes, the emotional fallout will be huge. There is already generational trauma in the Jewish community, and this sort of thing will make that worse.

There never was a golden age where antisemitism didn’t exist.
It’s got worse in the UK in the last ten years or so.No prizes for guessing why.
Yes, setting ambulances on fire is a new low.

I was horrified by this news, but also gobsmacked that this local community Ambulance service even existed.... so went to have a look. It's run by trained volunteers, slightly similar to how Mountain Rescue, or RNLI volunteers operate in mountain and coastal areas ?

<https://hatzolanw.org/>

How shameful that any such force for good should be targetted

sodapop

Seems nothing has been learned from the past. I am horrified by this attack and hope the Jewish community is supported in dealing with this.

The whole country should crowd fund to replace the lost vehicles and equipment.

Vile example of anti-Jewish terrorism deserving long sentences. It's appalling that this Nazi-like activity is happening in Britain.

We live in London and such attacks are imho not prevalent here, Jews have always felt safer living in such a diverse and tolerant environment, obviously not anymore, which is very sad.

What horrific news to wake up to. That anyone should target a voluntary organisation that works for the good of all is beyond belief.

There’s a Gofundme page for donations.

www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-hatzalah-save-lives

No prizes for guessing why

The rise of Reform? He may be disguising it now, but Farage was definitely antisemitic in his youth.

No, nothing whatsoever to do with Farage or the right wing.

Oreo

No, nothing whatsoever to do with Farage or the right wing.

Really? Don't you think that a party led by someone who used to tell schoolfriends that Hitler was right, and made hissing gas sounds in the ears of Jewish boys might just possibly be contributing to antisemitism?

Racial or religious prejudice is divisive, and legitimising it in any shape or form is almost inevitably going to lead to attacks on minorities, as there will always be people who have a need to 'other' anyone who is different from themselves.

Farage may well have been antisemitic at school and maybe in his head still is, many people who wouldn’t say anything out loud often are.
But no, I don’t blame him or Reform for all the antisemitism in the UK.

Honestly …I think it was just some Ned who thought why should anyone have private ambulances when my mum or gran or child has to wait hours for one.
Probably didn,t even know they were for the Jewish community.
The hatred is for people who have things the rest of the community don’t have access to .Its been posh cars in our area ,set on fire almost daily

Grantanow

Vile example of anti-Jewish terrorism deserving long sentences. It's appalling that this Nazi-like activity is happening in Britain.

I'm sorry to say that mindless attacks on emergency services vehicles and staff happen all over UK .

www.fbu.org.uk/publications/attacks-firefighters
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20zeelwj93o

Doodledog

*No prizes for guessing why*

The rise of Reform? He may be disguising it now, but Farage was definitely antisemitic in his youth.

The far right as in Farage and Yaxley Lennon and his cronies are usually antisemitic as well as Islamophobic, those who see Lennon as a champion of ordinary indigenous people because he seems to oppose Muslims need to look a bit deeper. Many who follow him have Nazi tattoos and are Holocaust deniers.