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No mention of the synagogue attack in work email…

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Watermelonsugar44 · 09/10/2025 17:21

I have no skin in the game, this is just an observation.

I work in a largish nhs trust. We have a daily email from our executive team with general hospital updates and this also includes relevant current affairs and special mention of religious holidays etc.

Other worldwide natural disasters and terror attacks, especially uk based ones, have always been included in this daily email, saying thoughts with those involved and if anyone is affected reach out etc etc…

There was no mention of the recent synagogue attack at all. I looked back to double check.

I am not Jewish, but I’m sure there are many people who work in out trust who are, and also I feel this should be treated the same way as similar attacks. It feels disrespectful.

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Medievalgirl2 · 21/09/2026 10:54

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 21/09/2026 10:09

I wish that were the case! IMO there’s always been a latent undercurrent of anti-semitism (much more overt in e.g. Victorian times*) but since the Gaza reaction to Oct 7th, it has become almost ‘fashionable’ to almost equate anti-Israel with anti-Semitic, I dare say as in, ‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend.’

*e.g. in a novel by Trollope I’ve recently been reading, there is one lawyer recommending a lawyer - a Mr Solomon Something - to another lawyer -

‘Isn’t he a Jew?’
‘I have no idea - he’s an attorney, that’s good enough for me.’

There are many such examples in Trollope’s novels.

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The English very much do do antisemitism. In fact, the English invented the original blood libel way back in the 12th century.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 21/09/2026 11:11

YNBU. Even in the Cultural Fusion group at work, they barely pay lip service to anything ‘’Jewish’.
There was a lot about George Floyd.
But after the Synagogue attack and October 7th, it was kinda: ‘oh, yeah, and some Jewish stuff going on.

But, anyway - let’s pat ourselves on the back for absolutely fuck all!’

They make me sick with all their wafer thin inclusivity.

MyArtfulGreySloth · 21/09/2026 11:15

It’s become completely normal and acceptable in this country to dislike Jewish people. It’s disgusting.

Medievalgirl2 · 21/09/2026 11:34

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 21/09/2026 11:11

YNBU. Even in the Cultural Fusion group at work, they barely pay lip service to anything ‘’Jewish’.
There was a lot about George Floyd.
But after the Synagogue attack and October 7th, it was kinda: ‘oh, yeah, and some Jewish stuff going on.

But, anyway - let’s pat ourselves on the back for absolutely fuck all!’

They make me sick with all their wafer thin inclusivity.

There are people now openly saying Jews "bought it on themselves". I saw such a post just yesterday. Not on MN I hasten to add.

runfromthecrushingtide · 21/09/2026 17:24

Medievalgirl2 · 21/09/2026 11:34

There are people now openly saying Jews "bought it on themselves". I saw such a post just yesterday. Not on MN I hasten to add.

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There have been sone awful comments on these boards over the past few days.

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