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

The answer to antisemitism is hardly racism 🤦‍♀️

Most people in the UK are white, the question is whether Muslims commit more anti Semitic attacks relative to their proportion of the population. I don't think we have the data.

However, surveys show many UK Muslims endorse anti Semitism.

https://www.thejc.com/news/poll-reveals-more-than-a-third-of-british-muslims-believe-jews-have-too-much-power-in-uk-hgt2u74c

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=archive.jpr.org.uk/object-1292&ved=2ahUKEwi038vIjKmTAxXzdUEAHUBhL2kQFnoECCoQAQ&usg=AOvVaw14YqbE4NlBbTusTWf7g3Ch

https://antisemitism.org/new-report-shows-worrying-levels-of-antisemitism-in-britains-muslim-community-including-higher-levels-among-the-university-educated

Better than supporting the Greens or Labour who are intent on destroying Britain.

Yep it’s all disgusting - anti-semtism, anti-blackness, Islamophobia etc.

Buy her an orthodox Cross necklace, get her to say her mums family's from Greece and her dad's is from I dunno somewhere people don't know much about unless they're from the region so they can't place the surname.. Kosovo, Bulgaria? Somewhere with a Christian and Muslim population and where some people are just more olive skinned.

I'm sorry you're having to hide your ethnicity.

The thread did not mention Palestinians or flags, that was you. You are extremely obvious.

Exactly. In the current 21st century era, first they’ll come for the Muslims, then black people, then Jewish people etc No one is exempt.

Total whataboutery and not relevant to this thread. This thread is about antisemitism being faced by teenagers - which is fuelled by Palestinian flag waving usefulness idiots.

Most Jews who dress that way are Hasidic, not just Orthodox. Hasidic Jews are stricter than Orthodox Jews and would most likely be at a school specifically for Hasidic kids.

There could have been another clue though.

Exactly and posters like that are the same ones that don’t give a shit about (and even participate in) racism against POC - who btw usually can’t lie about or conceal their heritage like OP is attempting to do with her children.

There’s no “cover stories” available for us.

I’m not even Muslim but my non-white skin and love of wearing headscarves as a fashion accessory has attracted a shit load of Islamophobia.

Most anti-Semitic attacks in the UK are by white propel, so look at those who look like you first.

I’m so sorry you’ve experienced that, unfortunately some kids have absolutely treatise useless parents (and teachers).

I follow a donor conceived young woman on SM who found out as an adult that her actual biological father was the Jewish doctor who ran the sperm bank. As her parents thought the donor was Western European like her legal father, she had no idea why she had antisemitic comments all her life. There is a look.

@Aislyn my suggestions would be either "nobody really knows, it's all a bit of a mystery" which ties in with the idea that your region of origin has switched countries, or picking a more Mediterranean looking Eastern European country - Bulgaria? Or maybe Romania? (I have seen comments saying that Romanian Jews tend to be more blonde than other Romanians, I have no idea how true that is).

What about all the stupid useful idiots who support Farage, Trump and Netanyahu?

The coalition of evil.

Anti Semitism is hardly alien to the UK...but we had improved a lot. And now this huge upsurge...

I think it's heartbreaking in this day and age that someone has to hide their heritage or religion.

I agree. I was a young adult in the late 70s and early 80s, when we were "rocking against racism" and marching in opposition to the National Front. I thought we'd consigned this sort of shite to the dustbin of history.

It seems that fascists, like the poor, are always with us.

Anti semitism is so bad it’s starting to feel like the 1930s Germany. To the point Jewish families are feeling under threat outside Jewish schools and environments.

All these stupid stupid useful idiots with their Palestinian flags in windows going on marches repeating their little pre learned mantras so not to fall foul of the secret (social media:playground) police. All these middle class stupid stupid idiots waving their Iranian flags whilst actual Iranians who fled the terror of the regime scream the truth at them, but apparently the flag bearers know better from the Facebook/mumsnet posts they read passing on their pseudo liberal hatred to their kids.

Honestly I’m so angry at this country that less than 100 years after the Second World War we have worried mothers coming on here to ask for help in hiding the fact their kids are Jewish and we have posters asking “who looks British?” “Are they from Israel”? Fuck me!

If most had only one Polish parent & it was the father, that's more likely.. I think mothers are probably more likely to pass down language if married to a different nationality.

Poles whose parenta came more recently may be more likely to have 2 Polish parents.

This is 110% a school problem that needs to be stamped out. I’d want face to face meetings with the head until this behaviour stops. Then escalate in line with the school’s complaints procedures. Your child needs to be shown that you are their advocate and that you’ll fight for them.

Tbf my grandfather was Polish and my mother & I get our brown hair from him. About half of Poles aren't blonde. But I agree that this could have been a clue for these bullies.

Yes, I've been fortunate in that I've experienced very little antisemitism, what I have often seems to involve teenagers saying things about ovens and gas chambers.

Holocaust education seems to have the opposite effect on some people.

I agree re WW2 : my school study of it focused mainly on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust rather than Eastern Europe as much, but I can see how that could be a factor. And definitely SM...

Op I might be ignorant but I'd think if your kids say I was born in London but my parents are from Poland I'd assume they were RC.