Is "openly Jewish" a hate crime under the April Fools Scottish hate crime law?

The more that person posts, the more obvious it is that the poster has little understanding of the wider and complicated politics of the other countries in that part of the world.

A blame the Jews and only the Jews, any Jew will do, agenda.

Yeah, I think I've asked people this before; I don't understand how Israel is blockading Palestine and keeping the population in an 'open prison' - but Egypt's not. Especially as it's been predominantly Israel who has provided Palestine with water, electricity etc. I'm not actually sure if Egypt's ever provided any sort of aid?

No one here is gloating over the terrible situation and loss of life in the Middle East for goodness sake! No one here is delighting in the deaths of innocent people including women and children. It's disgusting to suggest that people taking a stand against the increasing anti semitism in the UK are doing that.

Stop trying to use it to justify a mob shouting "Nazi" and "Scum" at a Jew many miles away in London.

Let's have a real FACT for FunGuyPie who is so determined to plop here and attempt to deny, blame, and turn the talk from the escalating Jew hate here in the UK.

From February's Hansard.

The Community Security Trust published its latest report on antisemitic incidents. It made for deeply disturbing reading. It showed that there were 4,103 instances of anti-Jewish racist hatred recorded across the UK in 2023. That is the highest annual total ever reported to the Community Security Trust. It is a 147% rise from the 1,662 antisemitic incidents the previous year, and 81% higher than the previous yearly record of 2,261 incidents, reported in 2021. Most shockingly, more than two thirds of the incidents reported last year occurred on or after 7 October, when Hamas perpetrated its barbaric terrorist attack on Israel. The report also indicates that antisemitism began spiking before Israel’s military response had begun: the week immediately following 7 October saw 416 antisemitic incidents reported to the CST, which is higher than any subsequent week. The Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024-02-19/debates/788C5AA8-47E6-4D42-916C-E569D0B260A5/AntisemitismInTheUK

It is pretty desperate to try to deny such atrocities were carried out. I'm not sure why you might want to do that? Perhaps so you can continue to maintain a black and white view of the world, in which Israel has no credits to its name at all, and only debits; and where Hamas and the Palestinian leadership over the decades have no responsibility at all.

There is widespread evidence of atrocities, not only which were witnessed, but which were filmed by Hamas themselves. Leaders and journalists from around the world have viewed some of the footage, and there are multiple images to be found if you are intent on looking, along with horrifying testimonies.

Furthermore rapes and torture have been committed on the hostages, and children were given ketamine to keep them quiet.

The post mortems that are still being carried out will go on to form a body of evidence with which to hold those that perpertrated these acts to account for the atrocities they committed.

You can live in denial all you like, but it doesn't change the truth.

Yes exactly, when people bleat and hand wring about the Palestinians being trapped with nowhere to go, they conveniently fail to mention the land border with Egypt. Egypt doesn't want Hamas or Hamas sympathisers on their soil, because they are a massive security risk. So it's okay for Egypt to do whatever necessary to contain the problem in order to protect themselves, even if that decision is tough on innocent Palestinians, but it's completely beyond the pale for Israel to do the same thing.

Even if the number of 30,000 is to be believed (they know their exact number of dead but don’t know where the hostages are…) then that’s 0.2% of the population. Hardly a genocide. In fact, Israel could decimate Gaza and its inhabitants in about 4 hours. They don’t because they’re not evil psychos. Israel doesn’t even want Gaza. Nobody does. Egypt closed their 5 mile border in the south because they don’t want anything to do with them.
This whole thread and discussion is horrifying. If you changed the word “Jew” to “black”, “Muslim” even “trans” then nobody would have the balls to justify or deny their experience. But it’s a free for all when Jews are concerned because apparently we run the world, control the media, commit atrocities, lie, steal, claim victim hood and colonise. Pretty impressive for 0.02% of the worlds population innit.

Me too unless she’s a Jew

If Israel really were committing genocide (in the true sense of the word) then you'd have thought they'd start with the 1.8 million Palestinians living and working peacefully in Israel.

After all, even Adolf started all his shit at home.

I agree, but unfortunately, Palestinian children in Hamas-controlled schools are literally taught that Jewish people are NOT human. So that's their starting point.

You are aware that Al Jazeera is the hamas mouth-piece? Primarily funded by Qatar, they openly support hamas, Iran and hezbollah. Why on earth would you think that's an appropriate source? I assume if you are happy to accept an openly pro-hamas media source you will be just as trusting of an openly pro-Israeli media source, so here's an article from the Jerusalem Post to prove it: Al Jazeera is an inflammatory propaganda channel that must be shut down - The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com).

Or just check out some of the vast number of impartial sources from all across the world going back many years, it's hardly a secret.

(Also important to point out that unlike Al Jazeera, the Jerusalem Post has not ever been accused of propaganda and is actually regarded as a very reliable news source.)

Being Irish, I'm very familiar with this spiral of 'whataboutery'. There's always somebody else's atrocity to point at while downplaying your own, always a cherry-picking of historical fact.
Some historical facts are incontrovertible, and in these days of phone footage, live streaming, and a range of different news channels covering the same incidents, it's just about possible for a reasonable person to get past the propaganda and get a reasonably objective set of facts which are not all from one side. It doesn't happen a lot, especially in the Israel-Palestine dilemma, but it's possible.
Most people in Ireland accepted that everybody North and South is a human being, and that, unfortunately and unfairly, [incontrovertible historical facts exist] 'we are where we are' and sometimes you just have to accept the status quo, stop killing, and start from here, not from where you would like to be starting from, or feel historically justified in starting from.
There's nothing special about the Irish, so if we can do it, is féidir/it's possible elsewhere.

Oh, okay, so I didn't see that poor young woman Na'ama Levy being hauled out of a truck in Gaza with cuts to her ankles and blood all over her crotch. And she was never taken hostage, it was all a set-up job by the wicked Jews.

Honestly, you disgust me (edited to add, perhaps I should say that your behaviour disgusts me; perhaps you are just naive). You also are very exercised about the dispossession of the Palestinians without appearing to have a clue about the history of the Jews in the Arab lands. Many of them fled with what they stood up in and a suitcase.

And NONE of this takes away from the fact that Gideon Falter demonstrated that there is active and aggressive antisemitism running through those marches like Brighton through a stick of rock.

Rape denial on the feminism board? How marvellous.

Lies? Ok. Jews lying about mass rape? I see. Thank you for showing your truth.

I think you’re a bit obsessed.

I am not 'arguing'. The above article was shared to me by Jewish friends who were born and bred in Israel and lived there for over 50 years- and have all their family there.

Read the above, and see what it is

We were discussing hate crime . . . Not Netanyahu

Read the above and tell me if this is not hate crime we should be acknowledging and discussing.

What will happen to the illegal settlements which were never ever meant to be part of the 1948 agreed settlements. ILLEGAL and so so cruelly taken. Where is the right of Palestinians to protect themselves?

No point arguing with you. You obviously know how Jews feel and that you feel you can argue with a Jew about what is or isn’t racist, and have seen first hand what is going on in the region. Best wishes.

LadyGooGa, I will not respond to your accusations of racism. This is not about race, at all. This is about one people being dispossessed of their land and rights, oppressed in so many ways, and for such a long time. And now obliterated by this so called 'war'.

One man is being asked to avoid a certain area at a certain sensitive time, to protect him and to avoid confrontation and escalation. The policeman, in a difficult situation, tried to protect him and went about it, in the heat and stress of the moment, in a bit of a cake handed way.

In the meantime, Palestinians, huge numbers are being bombed, starved, oppressed in so many ways, large numbers children, in Gaza. But it pales into insignificance re that man being told to stay away from the march, for his own safety. And all over the rest of Palestine and the West Bank- Palestinians, boys, men and others too, are being intimidated, their land stolen and their livelihood destroyed, their olive groves and farmland burnt and destroyed, and if they dare complain, they get beaten and even shot in the back or the head. With the IDF closing a blind eye, or even approving, or even helping. But that is NOT racist, is it? Of course not.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/israel-settlers-violence-against-palestine-west-bank

I agree. Sometimes these posts are better left to stand. I'd rather see a person exposed for who they really are, than be left in doubt by a deletion message.