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Anti-Semitism at Home

Anti-Semitism at home | 24.01.2009 16:47

Is it anti-Zionism or anti-Semitism?

UK: Muslims walking into Jewish-owned shops and saying, "I'm going to kill you"

Jihad graffiti on a bus shelter in Temple Fortune

Threats to Jews in New York, threats to Jews in London, threats to Jews all over. And yet the UN is focused on "Islamophobia, " and Islamic advocacy groups in the U.S. have to manufacture hate crimes to shore up their victim status. When will this madness end? Is the West even still able to produce a political leader who will stand up to this? The free world needs to take a stand and make it clear to Muslims in the West that this is not tolerable. But I am not holding my breath.

"London - More Anti-Semitic Attacks in Golders Green," from Vos Iz Neias?, January 22 (thanks to all who sent this in):

London - The Jewish community in Golders Green has been the target of further anti-Semitic attacks, in the form of more offensive graffiti.
Graffiti reading "Kill the filthy Jews" was daubed on walls and pavements near Golders Green tube station and vandals wrote "Jihad 4 Israel" on top of Holocaust Memorial Day adverts.

Golders Green residents have unanimously condemned the ongoing hate crimes, which have risen up in the wake of the Gaza conflict....

I'm glad they have, but what about the local Muslims?

Joseph Haziza, 27, manager of Menachem Kosher butchers which is next to Sinclair Grove on Golders Green road, said: "In this area of Golders Green the graffiti hasn't been as bad. Further up the Golders Green Road they have been affected, with Muslims coming into Jewish shops and saying: 'I'm going to kill you'.
"I don't wear my cuple [skull cap] when I'm out and about. I don't want to be started on."...

At least one Jewish resident of the area has been brutally beaten: "Bloody Beating In Golders Green," by Justin Cohen for Totally Jewish.com, January 22 (thanks to Pamela):

An Orthodox man from Golders Green yesterday spoke of his determination to continue living an openly Jewish life after he was viciously beaten and left with blood pouring from his face, in one of the most serious incidents of an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism afflicting Britain.
Wearing a kippah and his long Shabbat coat, Michael Bookarz was walking home from La Fiesta restaurant on Golders Green Road on Saturday night when he was set upon by two hooded attackers. "I was walking towards the A406 at about 10.20pm when I noticed a guy was walking towards me," the 31-year-old told TJ.

"He suddenly started running and punched me in the face. When I was on the ground, another person ran over and they both started kicking me and stamping on my body and head.

"One of them said this is because of what's happened to the Palestinians in Gaza. Someone must have looked out the window because they suddenly just ran off leaving me on the floor.

"I was scared but the main thought running through my head as it was happening was self-preservation and defending myself. The second the attack finished my next thought was to get help. I took my phone out to dial 999 and I could see blood covering the screen of the phone - there was blood pouring down from my nose."...

Anti-Semitism at home

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Yeah, all racism is shit, but...

24.01.2009 17:18

the problem of Islamophobia is statistically greater than anti-Semitism in most Western countries. Thanks laregly to the demagoguery and jingoism of the Zionist NeoCons and their EU handmaidens.

The matter is also not helped by Zionist propaganda that seeks to conflate Zionsim with Judaism and Jewish ethnicity full stop: so it is no wonder people accept it at face value that Zionism and Jewishness are synonyms.

No one deserves to be beaten up or discriminated on the basis of their beliefs & convictions or their ethnicity, but it is a little ironic to hear Zionists complain about anti_Semitism when they and teh IDF/IAF are the biggest driving force behind it.

Atheist


Semite?

24.01.2009 17:47

What is a Semite? Is a Turko-Mongol Jew a Semite? An English Jew?

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