Manchester synagogue was not the first
UncategorizedYesterday’s jihadist attack on Yom Kippur was just the latest in a series of attempts and provocations against Jewish places of worship, schools and institutions, a process which started the very day after the Hamas mass murder of Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023.
Thankfully, the UK Jewish community has a security organisation which until now protected us from the worst. These attacks and threats go unreported by mass media, which focus on Palestinian grievances.
Here’s a memory that just stirred. One Sabbath day in October 2023, walking home, we ran into a traffic jam on Abbey Road. It was caused by dozens of cars decked in Palestinian colours and waving flags, some in busloads from the north, on their way to one of the first highly-organised mass demonstrations in town.
A young man leaped out of a car, brandishing a huge flag and a large green flare. He was looking for somewhere to attack, possibly the local synagogue. Unable to identify it, he burst into the nearest imposing building, a branch of Pizza Express.
Moments later he was firmly removed, still chanting slogans.
That was the beginning.
Manchester is now.
Where next?
Next was a tasteless march of anti-Jewish activists on the evening of Yom Kippur (with clashes with police) allowed by this pathetic government.
Pathetic government? I’m no Labour person. Sir Keir’s wife and children are Jews and run a Jewish household. There are Jews in the government too. They will all be sitting down tonight for Shabbat.
How Two Tier Keir can look his wife and children in the eyes is beyond my comprehension.
This event is owned by him.
That’s rubbish. It was the appalling act of a fanatic from Syria. The institutional incompetence surrounding immigration in the UK precedes Starmer’s term by decades. I hold no brief for him either, and feel he has so far been pretty disappointing as PM, but he did inherit a poisoned chalice in pretty much every field.
He can be blamed for a lot, but this outrage is not down to him or his government.
It is repulsive beyond words to attribute responsibility for this attack to this government that is constantly accused of ‘enabling genocide’ by supporting Israel.
Unfortunately that is exactly what one expects nowadays from the bandit Netanyahu, who doesn’t even slightly speak for we Jews with the exception of a few extremists. Since you use the idiotic formulation ‘two tier Kier’ I assume you are not Jewish but a Tommy Robinson enthusiast. Disgusting, and you don’t belong anywhere near classical music, ever.
What’s that got to do with whether his government is pathetic?
It is in no sense a ‘pathetic government’, any more that those exercising their freedom to protest are ‘anti-Jewish activists’. If you believe that to be true than you have no understanding of Jewish tradition or thought.
“These attacks and threats go unreported by mass media, which focus on Palestinian grievances.”
That is the most surprising observation, the enthusiasm of showing so much public support for a population saturated with a death cult.
The unbalanced reporting of the Mideast issue is not limited to England. The American media report, on a daily basis, on the Gaza mess which has its roots in the Palestinians’ massive support of Hamas. They voted for this. The horrific events of 7 October 2023 have long since been forgotten, if they were ever taken seriously. Rockets and drones continue to break through into Israeli airspace. The port of Eilat has been closed for two years. A drone recently hit an Israeli hotel, causing multiple injuries. The solution is simple: Hamas should accept the “deal of the millenium” and peace will ensue. But, because Hamas’s charter documents state their goal is the destruction of the Jewish nation, this will not happen. Israel has accepted the American proposal; Hamas has not. And the band plays on….
Peace will never ensue in Netanyahu’s time. It is not in his interest. The Israeli extreme right is as determined to destroy the Palestinians as any Hamas supporter is to destroy Jews. When Rabin made a peace accord with Arafat (who operated politically as an Arab rather than an Islamist) he was killed a few weeks later — by an Israeli far right person.
…and the Rabin assassination remains one of the great tragedies of the late Twentieth Century. A potential peace maker taken away…
The next should be mass deportations of antisemites and radical Muslims. Of course, it’s not going to happen.
“Cultural enrichment”
Our local Police Commissioner in London came to our synagogue to tell us he had our back. My wife spoke to him, explaining she’d been through a year of hell having been accused of assault by a pro-Pale anti-semite, the prosecution being dropped shortly before trial. He urged her to contact him for a meeting, on doing so he replied he was too busy.
I shall be wearing a yellow pin at Covent Garden on Monday and Wednesday for the benefit of the anonymous minority. Hopefully “next” won’t be London WC2. (p.s. My first visit since returning our tickets for Tosca)
Such is Starmer’s Britain.
Starmer did a Q&A at our synagogue last Saturday, after the service, 2 days after Manchester. When he called, our Rabbi suggested it was not a good idea after recognising Palestine, but after a schul meeting it went ahead. It was pretty brutal and had no coherent answers. My wife is off to Israel tomorrow, will be looking at property.
wow… they to unreported…? Where is the proof
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The Israelophobes who have been spouting hysteria on this site for months appear to have gone to ground following the events ofThursday.