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

Say they are from your town you live in now.

How utterly depressing that 60% of 18 - 24 year olds think that Israel is treating Palestinians in the same way as Nazis treated the Jews in the Holocaust.

@pizzaHeart - "I think people are forgetting that it’s kids we are talking about. A lot of examples how to handle the situation are suitable for adults but not for 13 y.o.
I was mistakenly thought at first that OP’s children were born somewhere and then moved to London but she clarified that they were born here. In this situation I think those who ask - ask maliciously, there is no accent or language issue indicating immigration. Those who ask suspect the answer..."

This ^

I'm amazed at the number of posters who seem to think that the OP's child is participating in a civilised and rational conversation with sensible people - rather than with school bullies who are looking to intimidate and for whom any answer will be the "wrong" answer.

I think people are forgetting that it’s kids we are talking about. A lot of examples how to handle the situation are suitable for adults but not for 13 y.o.
I was mistakenly thought at first that OP’s children were born somewhere and then moved to London but she clarified that they were born here. In this situation I think those who ask - ask maliciously, there is no accent or language issue indicating immigration. Those who ask suspect the answer.

There is a possibility of cover story but it should be tailored in details to OP’s situation and ability of her youngest child to communicate it. Vague answers won’t be suitable because in a way it’s a very simple question.
Someone up the thread asked if adults who picked up children looked Jewish. It’s absolutely relevant as well.
I have Jewish heritage myself but I don’t look Jewish however my mum, my aunt and my cousin are.
Every time I was with them the question arised and it was stupid to deny that my family had Jewish heritage. I was never questioned when I was on my own or with my Dad/ his side of the relatives.

This was my suggestion on page one of this thread. London is the answer. Pure and simple.

To be fair it's gotten confusing between what has happened which is that her older child has sadly faced antisemitism due to their classmates identifying them as Jewish because when asked there they're from they said eastern European countries. Unless I've misread, OP hasn't said her child has tried to say they're from London and the kids have kept pushing, and saying they don't look British, this is all what she is presuming will happen with her other child at a totally different school, so everyone getting crossed lines between what kids have actually done Vs OPs assumed response to people suggesting they don't indulge conversations about heritage any further than the place they live and to report anyone pushing it.

@twelvepiecesofflair can you clarify? 🤔

The easiest solution is unfortunately that she just has to keep saying “I am from London, my parents are from London and I don’t have any other heritage that I know of”.

As I mentioned upthread, DH may have non-British ancestry but he might not, and if he does, he doesn’t know what it is. He did used to get asked “where are you from, no where are you really from” both by racists and by non-white kids who assumed he was mixed race. He did just have to keep saying he was British, until they got bored of it. There wasn’t another answer he could have given that would have shut them up.

Maybe. I just didn’t get it.

I just assumed she meant she had dark haired/skinned kids - am I wrong? In which case I absolutely take back my remark

It’s far from clear for me too.

How does she easily pick out her children if almost all the kids have dark blonde hair and fair skin?

Is it because they’re her kids?

But everyone can pick out their own kids?

Oh come on. The onus is now on you to highlight what you're having difficulty with as it's far from clear

As the OP has said numerous times, it’s the school kids not accepting “London” as an answer, not the OP.

i haven’t got any answers OP but I’m sorry that you are going through this.

The article I read says she was given a 15 month suspension whilst they investigate.

The article I read says she was given a 15 month suspension whilst they investigate.

I’m not sure what there is to investigate that requires a 14 month suspension.

She posted all this hatred on a public Twitter account and has continued doing so after being suspended. To the point she has been arrested four times due to the extremity of what she is coming out with.

My kids went to a pretty homogeneous English school and at pick up I could easily pick them out because almost all the children had dark blonde/ light brown hair and fair skin! THATS what “ looking British” is. It’s not a value judgement, just a fact.

This makes zero sense.

It’s right that she be suspended and investigated.

But funnily enough when I argued that Sandie Peggy, who regularly called Muslim and Asian patients ‘P$’, should be suspended, I was roundly shut down on MN and told that her views don’t affect her ability to practise as a nurse.

Tbf, I think the incredulity came from the OP saying ing that ‘London’ was not an acceptable answer as her kids don’t look British.
THAT is crazy. London is so diverse, and many, many, many Londoners look nothing like you’ve described as ‘typically British’.
Coming from London, you can look like anyone!

It’s baffling to me that so many posters have done the wide eyed “ what does British even look like?!” While happily suggesting that people can look Greek, Spanish or Italian…. !
What do Greek, Spanish or Italian people typically look like?
Well, we all know don’t we, because while of course there are many people in all this countries with genes from elsewhere, there IS a typical look.
My kids went to a pretty homogeneous English school and at pick up I could easily pick them out because almost all the children had dark blonde/ light brown hair and fair skin! THATS what “ looking British” is. It’s not a value judgement, just a fact.
I am not ethnically British, but a British citizen, like lots of people. I don’t have any problem saying someone doesn’t look typically British. It’s really silly to pretend it doesn’t exist.
It’s also baffling to me that the atrocities of Oct 7 and beyond (which I wish I didn’t know about) has led to worldwide Jew hate but then I guess that was the intention of Hamas all along.
Its certainly worked with a number of people on this thread.
OP honestly, I would try and move your children,

There is undoubtedly anti-semitism in the NHS. Until very recently, a doctor was seeing patients who said:

• ”The Holocaust was a fabricated victim narrative”
• ”Britain is totally occupied by Jewish supremacy.”
• “I will never condemn the 7th of October.”
• “The Royal Free Hospital in London is a Jewish supremacy cesspit.”
• “Hamas are oppressed resistance fighters”
• “Hamas fighters are the first real men female Israeli hostages have seen”

She is still only suspended from her role.