anti-Semitic attacks in Manchester
fight the BNP | 27.02.2008 16:19 | Anti-racism | Palestine
The Community Security Trust reports 147 anti-Jewish incidents in Manchester for 2007. That's a small rise from the previous year and the highest since 1984 when recording by the CST began. Anti-Semitic crime is disproportionately high in Manchester, which has 27 percent of all incidents but only 10 percent of British Jews actually live here.
The strongest rise in anti-Semitic incidents can be witnessed on Manchester's campuses. For example:
"A Jewish student was taking part in a demonstration at Manchester University
when a Muslim student grabbed her poster from her and said that Jews will be
banned from campus."
"A Jewish student was handing out leaflets outside a student union debate at
Manchester University when an Arab student called him “You Jewish bastard.”
When challenged, the Arab student smiled and said: “Whoops, I mean you Israeli
bastard” and walked off."
Other incidents and attacks included:
"A Jewish man was walking down a road in north Manchester when an Asian youth
drove past and shouted, “You Jewish Bastard” at him. The perpetrator was traced by the Police and admitted the offence. He was given rehabilitation work with the local Youth Offending Team."
"“BNP” was daubed on a sign at the entrance to a Jewish care home in Manchester."
"A visibly Jewish man was leaving his synagogue in north Manchester when a group of white youths called him a “fucking Jew”, threw bricks at him and punched him in the head."
"A vehicle was seen on two or three occasions in the space of two weeks, being
driven round parts of north Manchester where there is a large strictly Orthodox
Jewish community. The occupants, white men wearing balaclava ski masks, threw
eggs at visibly Jewish pedestrians while shouting antisemitic abuse."
"A Jewish man was standing in the front garden of his house in Manchester, when
a group of white youths approached him, made abusive references to Hitler and the
Jews, and then threw a large stone at him."
"A Jewish woman was stuck in heavy traffic after collecting her children from a Jewish school in Manchester. A driver trying to pass her car in the opposite direction shouted out of his window: “You fucking Jewish bitch, move, now.”"
"A Jewish student was taking part in a demonstration at Manchester University
when a Muslim student grabbed her poster from her and said that Jews will be
banned from campus."
"A Jewish student was handing out leaflets outside a student union debate at
Manchester University when an Arab student called him “You Jewish bastard.”
When challenged, the Arab student smiled and said: “Whoops, I mean you Israeli
bastard” and walked off."
Other incidents and attacks included:
"A Jewish man was walking down a road in north Manchester when an Asian youth
drove past and shouted, “You Jewish Bastard” at him. The perpetrator was traced by the Police and admitted the offence. He was given rehabilitation work with the local Youth Offending Team."
"“BNP” was daubed on a sign at the entrance to a Jewish care home in Manchester."
"A visibly Jewish man was leaving his synagogue in north Manchester when a group of white youths called him a “fucking Jew”, threw bricks at him and punched him in the head."
"A vehicle was seen on two or three occasions in the space of two weeks, being
driven round parts of north Manchester where there is a large strictly Orthodox
Jewish community. The occupants, white men wearing balaclava ski masks, threw
eggs at visibly Jewish pedestrians while shouting antisemitic abuse."
"A Jewish man was standing in the front garden of his house in Manchester, when
a group of white youths approached him, made abusive references to Hitler and the
Jews, and then threw a large stone at him."
"A Jewish woman was stuck in heavy traffic after collecting her children from a Jewish school in Manchester. A driver trying to pass her car in the opposite direction shouted out of his window: “You fucking Jewish bitch, move, now.”"
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28.02.2008 12:09
jess
We don't have to take this
02.03.2008 13:43
It doesn't matter whether or not you are popular, that isn't the point, any fascist can be popular - the point is, your concience - Don't let racists take over the anti-war movement!
Hope it serves as an example.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/392653.html?c=on#c190290
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/687987
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/687991
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/687947
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/687955
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/687969?condense_comments=false#comments
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/392437.html?c=on#comments
Andy
Indymedia is a haven for anti semitism
03.03.2008 13:54
Holocaust denial, blood libels and conspiracy theories are frequently thrown around.
The left and right have become fused in their hatred for Jews.
make anti semitism history
true
03.03.2008 20:18
brendan
ZIONIST JEWS complaining about anti-Semitism!: Oh the SHEEER CHUTZPAH!!
05.03.2008 22:31
-- Golda Meir, fmr Israeli Prime Minister
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"The biggest problem in the world today is not what others are doing to Jews, but what (Zionist and Israeli) Jews are doing to others."
-- Jeffrey Blankfort, anti-Zionist Jewish-American journalist and author
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Btw, do those statistics include the _PHONY_ anti-Semitic 'hate crimes' perpetrated by Jews themselves, like the Jewish woman instructor at Claremont College in Riverside, CA, who created an initial 2 week-long uproar until it was discovered by the police and the college that she had repeatedly vandalized her OWN car with anti-Semitic graffiti - and other similar hoaxes elsewhere?
"Jury convicts Claremont professor in staged hate crime case"
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20040818-1805-ca-professorvandalism.html
And btw, those 'hate crimes' include anti-Semitic verbal attacks (like "Hitler killed the wrong Jews!"), harassment, graffiti, vandalism and other attacks against _ANTI-ZIONIST_ Jews and their groups & organizations by _ RABID ZIONIST_ Jews?
zionism = racism
20 parallels of Zionism with Nazism:
05.03.2008 22:35
2) both based on supposedly reuniting some religioethnic diaspora under one expansive state.
3) both attempting to revive some supposedly "glorious ancient kingdom" -- a "glorious ancient Teutonic kingdom" for the NAZIs; a "glorious ancient Judaic kingdom" for the Nationalist Zionists.
4) both established a state that was culturally, legally, economically and religiously based to exclusively benefit one ethnic/racial group.
5) both based on violent racist exclusion and a highly intricate complex of racial exclusion laws (like Israel's racial 'Nuremberg laws').
6) both based on creating a founding mythology -- like, for Zionist Jews, "a land without a people"
7) both invented their own race: Aryans, by the NAZIs; Jews, constructed as a unique/genetic race, by the Nationalist Zionists.
8) both based on eliminating some other unwanted and supposedly inferior races -- ethnic cleansing -- and, in the case of Zionism, removing those unwanted people who supposedly didn't exist.
9) both engaged in collective punishment and widespread torture (even inventing new sadistic torture methods),
10) both engaged in the mass imprisonment -- without trials -- of unwanted populations/races.
11) both enclosed unwanted races in walled-in ghettos and concentration camps -- only the Nationalist Zionists made the walls many times higher and the concentration camps many times larger (like Gaza, in effect the world's largest open-air prison/concentration camp).
12) both tried out new weapons on civilian populations (and Israel has engaged in the internationally illegal use of anti-personal weapons of mass destruction, like the widespread use of cluster bombs, on civilian populations).
13) both sought to erase existing countries -- like the Nazis wanting to wipe Poland off the map and parts of other countries; the Nationialist Zionists wanting to wipe Palestine off the map and parts of other countries.
14) both used pseudo-archeology to claim that it had exclusive right to the land.
15) the Nazis obsessed about "too many Jews" in Germany; Nationalist Zionists/Israel obsesses about "too many Palestinians" and the re-emergence of a Palestinian majority in historic Palestine (once an overhwhelmingly Arab land).
16) both were violently and militarily expansionist.
17) both engaged in blitzkrieg fighter aircraft and tank warfare against civilian populations and civilian targets.
18) Nationalist Zionist Israeli Jews even studied the original NAZI methods for urban warfare and clearing Palestinians out of their ghettos. Exclaimed one Israeli commander, "Let's be Judeo-Nazis!" (Reference: www.seruv.org.il -- the website for Israeli Refuniks in the "Occupied Territories"; see "Letter to American Jews"; "The Nazification of Israel" -- both online.)
19) both claimed to be based on "God's will".
20) and, finally (for Israel's 'final solution'), most recently (Feb 29, 2008), Israeli deputy defence minister threatens a "Holocaust" for the Palestinians.
20 parallels of Zionism with Nazism
is that all we can do?
07.03.2008 12:57
i guess this is a lot of work, but it seems such a shame to let people run on the back of others' hard work now.
the state of indymedia uk seems to be getting worse each day- i really want something fresh and amazing to be able to come out of it.
jess
Respect-related?
19.03.2008 22:31
A person
We on the left cannot tolerate anti-semitism
17.04.2008 13:01
I think that it would be morally wrong for those of us on the left to allow this kind of filth to go unchallenged, any more than we could suffer members of the BNP or other racists to join our ranks. We should make clear that our beef is with the apartheid policies of the Israeli government, aided and abetted by the Americans NOT with Jewish people or any other race.
Jonathan Handforth
No retalliation without provocation
15.07.2008 21:19
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