Sickening antisemitic attack.

That used to be a legal requirement, a tithe, but not sure when it ended.

Netanyahu isn't defending his country; he is as Basgetti posted calculating and vicious.

The line between criticising the actions of the current Israeli government and anti semitism isn’t imo increasingly thin. No other community in our country has guards at its schools and synagogues. Primary pupils in some Jewish schools practice hiding in case of attack.

Anti semitism isn’t imo as old as life. It was silenced to a large extent after the Holocaust but anti semites now shout loudly. The ancient tropes are spoken as truths.

Iam64

The line between criticising the actions of the current Israeli government and anti semitism isn’t imo increasingly thin. No other community in our country has guards at its schools and synagogues. Primary pupils in some Jewish schools practice hiding in case of attack.

Anti semitism isn’t imo as old as life. It was silenced to a large extent after the Holocaust but anti semites now shout loudly. The ancient tropes are spoken as truths.

Believing that all Jews are in accord with Netanyahu is the same as believing that all Muslims are bloodthirsty supporters of a Caliphate in the UK. When I was younger there could have been antisemitism but as a Jewish family we never felt subjected to it and our Muslim neighbours, we had a fair few because we were in a village near a large mill town which employed Pakistani workers due to a lack of workers after the war, could have been subjected to racism based upon their colour but their religion was never mentioned. It is geopolitics in the ME that has weaponised religion very much as in the holy crusades. And sadly now innocent Jews and Muslims are being targeted simply for being who they are.

I know Al Jazeera is an globally accepted news platform, but did they not even stop to consider the locals of Golders Green might challenge the AJ camera team when it turned up after the arson attack? The AJ video appears to make the Jewish locals look like an intolerant mob when they tell the AJ team to 'Go back to Qatar' (Not surprising - AJ well known for its anti Jewish reportage, so I should think it was difficult for some locals to keep their cool at their presence).
Maybe the news team were sent because AJ guessed what would happen with locals, and thought it would make a great item to sell around the world.

Sorry + of course I meant to type that anti semitism is as old as life

eazybee

Netanyahu is at least defending his country; which is fighting for survival.
Trump is not.

BN is defending himself and his allegedly equally corrupt wife. Longer this continues, longer they evade prosecution.

Anniebach

Quote Cossy Tue 24-Mar-26 12:39:57
Anniebach
As Hamas wants to kill all Jews

Hamas are a vile and horrendous terrorist group.

Not every Palestinian citizen is, especially children.

I assume children didn’t vote for Hamas in June 2007

I would hope not!

Was it really a truly democratic election, do you think?

Or a “pseudo” democratic election where people (adults, parents of children) were instructed via fear of whom they should be voting?

I don’t know the answer.

I do know I really don’t like humans much sometimes, nor terrorists groups.

I wish I could very sure that people like Trump, Putin and Netanyahu acted in the very best interests of their own citizens, but I’m afraid I don’t believe that they do.

eazybee

Netanyahu is at least defending his country; which is fighting for survival.
Trump is not.

I’m sorry to disagree but I don’t believe BN is defending “his country” I think he’s defending himself, I don’t believe he actually gives one fig for his country or those poor citizens living there.

This does not in any way excuse Hamas actions, or the Iranian regime.

Cossy 👏👏

Sadly, agree. I truly think his regime is making it worse for the Jewish diaspora worldwide. People shouldn't "make assumptions" - but they do.

Cossy, I'm loath to condemn BN outright for self interest, having learned in a recent documentary that his brother was the only Israeli soldier killed in the Entebbe airplane hostage liberation. Apparently the two brothers were very close and of course were children of the original '1948' generation, I think other things have to be taken into account.

I think other things have to be taken into account personal revenge perhaps.

Sorry, no national leader should be acting on the basis of personal revenge. Betony seems to to implying that BN is...

The Jewish diaspora has always suffered Wyllow3 so nothing new there.

Wyllow3

Sadly, agree. I truly think his regime is making it worse for the Jewish diaspora worldwide. People shouldn't "make assumptions" - but they do.

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I know I’m probably a sole voice and I’m not defending Netanyahu or the illegal settlers . My but is I see more criticism, questioning how the ancestors of holocaust survivors can behave like N…. I’m going to read more about ancestral trauma because I find if difficult to believe it isn’t a factor here.
I’ve read that Jewish people were criticised for not fighting back as they were marginalised and eventually faced a regime that wanted to wipe them from the face of the earth
That’s the phrase the Iranian extremists use

I hope I’m not accused of ignoring all the dead Palestinians .

Oreo

The Jewish diaspora has always suffered Wyllow3 so nothing new there.

I agree.
Unfortunately this is an additional factor.

Betony

Cossy, I'm loath to condemn BN outright for self interest, having learned in a recent documentary that his brother was the only Israeli soldier killed in the Entebbe airplane hostage liberation. Apparently the two brothers were very close and of course were children of the original '1948' generation, I think other things have to be taken into account.

Hang on a minute? It's OK to commit genocide because you have suffered yourself?

Betony - no one is defending the indefensible, Can you look wider .

Three people have been charged.
Hamza Iqbal 20 and Rehan Khan 19, and a 17 year old.

There have always been excuses for antisemitism, the situation in Israel is the latest.
Oh and I don't want that war fought out on the streets of this country.

Galaxy

There have always been excuses for antisemitism, the situation in Israel is the latest.
Oh and I don't want that war fought out on the streets of this country.

Who's excusing anti-semitism?

Explaining it, giving reasons why it is happening.

Why is that excusing it? if we don't understand the causes, the triggers, and history of events then we are helpless to address them.

Read Fallingstar above: she is Jewish, but clearly believes one has to understand for example when she says above

"It is geopolitics in the ME that has weaponised religion very much as in the holy crusades. And sadly now innocent Jews and Muslims are being targeted simply for being who they are."

If we fail to seek the reason why matters have got worse, they will just get worse as we don't have the tools to try and improve the situation