Significant rise in both anti-semitism and Islamophobia

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nanna8

Allowing marches flying foreign flags doesn’t help, either.

But if you think about it, does that include the Ukrainian flag or say the Greenland flag or Canadian flag if dopey Trump has another brain storm?

You know full well it doesn’t.

nanna8

Allowing marches flying foreign flags doesn’t help, either.

It certainly doesn’t! Iranian flags of the regime and Palestinian flags just add to the hate fest going on in the UK against Jews, and believe me, any old Jews will do, they don’t care.

More Trump ! hardly to blame for antisemitism

Is there a consortium of religions together that 'worship; together and meet together socially in other ways such as lunches in each others; premises----sort of interfaith organisation?

If there is such an interfaith organisation are there particular sections of society that would not be interested in attending?

nanna8

Allowing marches flying foreign flags doesn’t help, either.

But if you think about it, does that include the Ukrainian flag or say the Greenland flag or Canadian flag if dopey Trump has another brain storm?

Allowing marches flying foreign flags doesn’t help, either.

I agree with Grandmabatty. It's possible to spend your life engaging online with others that stoke the fires of a certain worldview, that sees people who worship/ vote/ dress differently from themselves as less than human, and part of a " problem".

What’s to blame ? they are Jews,

My horror was that any religious group felt the need for such a high level of security to pray.

This, ronib. A place ofprayer should be our sanctuary.

I don't know what's to blame. Though I have my suspicions.

But I'm sick of Jewish places of worship being attacked as a regular occurrence. Three more synagogues last week in Harrow, Hendon and Finchley, following on from the Golders Green ambulances' attack.

If these happenings become just normal regular events, I despair.

I agree it's certainly not easy to be Jewish in the UK, or probably anywhere else now. Their smaller numbers render them far more vulnerable than other groups and their aggressors come from three separate bodies, whereas it's almost always far right thugs who target Muslim communities. Jewish enclaves on the other hand have been aimed at by the far right, the far left and Islamists. The latter two groups at times colluding in both verbal aggression and in physical acts of violence.

It’s not easy to be Jewish in the U.K. at the moment, or elsewhere in the world actually 😿

The need to protect synagogues in the UK is not new. I was horrified to chat to a guard at the local synagogue partly because my very young grandson insisted on poking his head through the barriers! My horror was that any religious group felt the need for such a high level of security to pray. I feel that the UK hasn’t done enough to protect this group.

20% of Jewish people are thinking of leaving the UK as they no longer feel safe here.
This rise in hatred in the UK is worrying and upsetting.

I don't think the rise and use of social media helps. Algorithms encourage people to stay within echo chambers.