To ask you to help with a cover story for my Jewish child

I have no advice at all, I just wanted to say that I am desperately sorry that this has to be a consideration for you.
I'm sad that young children are still having to think about the answers before replying to a question.
I am sending you love and strength and thinking of your children ♥

So your argument is kids said another kid said something 50 years ago!

so moving on from your distraction, how do you think the OP should fight the antisemitism her kids are facing, what do you have to say about anti semitism in the UK?

That's horrible it couldn't be stifled. I'm glad he's out of that situation but it's very worrying that schools are condoning this...

How did the school react? Did they ignore? Condone? Deal with it ineffectively?

The school are failing and it's unacceptable. Have you talked to the governors? Local councillors? MP?
And I'd talk to the police too. Tell the school you're doing so.

That's truly horrible.

Has the university not punished people with those kinds of signs & manifesto? How can they allow that?

I always think the choice of censorship implies a lack of decent argument

Agree.

OP, I’m so sorry. I’ve donated to the CST since feeling bitterly disappointed with my perception of media/public response to Oct 7th. I look ethnically English and my husband and kids look Irish/Welsh, people notice, I believe you.

The hate marches at the university I work at have signs and a manifesto telling Jews to 'go back' to Poland. The misapprehension that Jews all came from one place goes straight up through the generations. It's a really odd version of hate.

Thank you- I should say it was a friends child, he’s now at uni, but the complaints, police involvement and fighting back as suggested on this thread didn’t work. All that worked was leaving.

Thank you. I understand what you mean.. I remember now I have read of some anti Semites in Arab & Muslim countries using 'go back to Poland' as a slur for Israelis, so if some pupils bullying are from those kinds of backgrounds I suppose they could be using that playbook.

I'm really sorry that happened to your child, 💐, thus needs to be stamped out

That's terrible OP, your poor children (and you) having to deal with that. Could they say they are from Cyprus or Malta originally but moved to London at a very young age so therefore don't know much about the country.
The children/bullies might recognise them as tourist destinations and may therefore be less likely to bully them. Both countries are predominantly Catholic.

No I am not suggesting a disgusting motive. What I am getting at is that for you to be able to state that antisemitism is not such a huge problem - as you did earlier - you will therefore surely know of all the antisemitic activity and attacks and conspiracy theories - to enable you to make such a sweeping statement. If you don't know about these then how can you make an assessment of the extent that jewish people face discrimination and bigotry? That's what I am getting at.

But report away when someone is making a counter argument about the levels of bigotry experienced by Jewish people.

Excuse typos.

No I am not suggesting a disgusting motive. What I am getting at is that for you to be able to state that antisemitism is not such a huge problem - as you did earlier - you will therefore surely know of all the antisemitic activity and attacks and conspiracy theories - to enable you to make such a sweeping statement. If you don't know about these then how can you make an assessment of the extent that jewish people face discrimination and bigotry? That's what I am getting at.

But report away when someone is making a counter argument about the levels of bigotry experienced by Jewish people.

Excuse typos.

I think this thought is logical but untimately misguided. These aren’t historians flexing their knowledge. These are anti semites brought up in anti semetic families and communities and likely consuming anti semetic social media. That’s where they’re getting this “polish jew” identify from, not from knowledge.

as I have said quite a few times my friends children have had the same situation - polish Jewish and look Jewish- being polish confirmed to the bullies their background. That identifier didn’t come from the 13 year olds, it came from their family and the anti semetic media they consume.

there is a whole world of this stuff. It’s an anti semetic playbook, not a history lesson.

It's not racism to say that British Muslims are on average more likely to hold anti Semitic attitudes. Thus does NOT mean most are anti Semitic, I am not claiming that.

Tbf, there's rising anti Semitism on the US right wing due partly to weird conspiracies that Netanyahu killed Charlie Kirk and who knows what else. Tied heavily to Nick Fuentes. Some of this has spread to Gen Z UK right wingers via SM. Thus article explains it well :

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-british-right-must-resist-americanisation/

And this one:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/20/nick-fuentes-tucker-carlson

Just get them to say that they are a little bit of a few places. Pick countries like Spain, Poland, Greece, Italy. Just get them to say their grandparents and great grandparents are international. 😂

I am so said it resorted to this. It has not been like this in any school I’ve ever worked in.

Christ alive! If the best you can come back with is some misguided comments which might or might not have been said by a child 50 years ago, you’ve already lost the argument really,

I do think that moving the children to a Christian school (most likely Catholic) would be in the best interests until a place in a Jewish school became available.

You support Reform whose leader Nigel Farage said despicable things like ‘Hitler was right’, ‘gas them’ and other stuff that I find too horrible to even type out.

You think Jewish people want your support?

Would they get away with saying they’re Italian? But could say they didn’t grow up there so don’t know the language.
This must be awful, your poor kids.
I’m blonde, blue-eyed and was born in Germany and moved to the UK when I was 3 but you can imagine what I was called throughout school.

Just wanted to post in solidarity OP, as I have a Jewish son and when we moved, he decided not to tell anyone he's Jewish because of anti Semitism.

For anyone questioning what could possibly identify someone as looking Jewish, without specifics, some people just look very Jewish (my mums side of the family all look very Jewish). My son doesn't though so noones ever thought about it in relation to him.

Kids who want to bully a kid for racist reasons will and anti Semitism has become socially acceptable for a lot of people now, so I totally get what your concerns are. 'I come from London' or 'oh are you being racist' aren't clever answers that will help.

Turkish or Hungarian might be good options.

I'm really sorry OP this is really sh#t.

Sorry op, it's really sad your child should feel the need to hide her religion. Would you consider moving her to a Christian school in the meantime whilst you are awaiting a Jewish place? You will find she will we be welcomed much more than in a secular school. I'm Catholic and have been concerned about the rise in hatred for Jews.

so to try and get you back on track- what do you think should be done about the anti semitism in Britain?? How do we stop children such as the OPs facing antisemitism?