To think this attack on London Jewish schoolchildren should have been headline news

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I have been waiting for this story to go mainstream, and I’m shocked that it hasn’t.

So far, it seems only the Daily Mail has reported on it - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14142235/amp/Jewish-children-terrified-thugs-London-bus-rocks-Israel.html.

When are we going to start taking the threats against Jews in the UK seriously and actually do something about it?

I hadn’t read or heard about this and am horrified.
How anyone can think it’s acceptable to deliberately harm and frighten children?
Targeted for being Jewish???? WTAF!
Behaviour like this needs to be stopped and punished along with educating the perpetrators.
It makes me shudder to think this could escalate.
Hitler gradually removed the rights of Jewish people to move around freely, work, live and socialise.
Then he graduated to genocide.
We cannot stand by and marginalise people with beliefs different to our own.
Jewish people are not the threat.

You’re 100% right.. these poor children.

Hi all,
Thanks to those who have reported the posts that concerned them on this thread, as you can see we have removed a fair few. We're content for the thread to continue however we would politely request that everyone reads the newspaper article itself prior to posting, as it appears to clear up possible misapprehensions.

I'd read about it a couple of times and I don't read the Mail if I can help it.

It is simply appalling, I hope at least some of those who perpetrated the offence were identifiable.

No one thinks Jewish people are a threat. I absolutely do think the far right are a threat. I also think they are impacting governments around the world and our own population. We should be standing for liberal, democratic values which include the right to self determination, the right to practice your religion without fear, the right to live in peace with all, the right to a family life.

The very same beliefs that mean I am very concerned about Palestinians is the reason I am appalled by Jewish school children being attacked. I honestly think this is a really common view. People who are genuinely concerned about Palestine are absolutely not okay with Jewish people being attacked or scared either! No one should be living in fear. Full stop.

I didn’t say they weren’t deplorable. I didn’t say attacks on any groups are ok.

I said some groups are deemed more newsworthy.

Some people have hate in their hearts. They will be punished one day.

For anyone who hasn't read the article i have highlighted this below. This is shocking and unacceptable!

A witness revealed: 'They were also swearing at us, saying, 'Fck Israel, nobody likes you. Fck off you btches.'*
Another youngster who was involved in the incident said some of the children ran off the bus to escape the attack, while others cowered under their seats.
They were 'completely terrified', they said, adding that the thugs were seen filming the incident on their phones.

Poor kids how terrifying for them.

If people want to take a stand against rising anti-Semitism in this country, they can join the March Against Anti-Semitism in London this weekend.

https://antisemitism.org/march/#:~:text=Sunday%2C%208th%20December%202024%20at,feel%20like%20they%20are%20drowning.

Yes it should be reported but its not going to be because it doesn't serve the interests of power who plan to continue importing foreign populations - and guess what? This also imports their ethnic conflicts to our soil.

These poor children must have been so frightened. I don't know how we can deal with these tensions.

As a Jewish parent I must say I am glad my kids aren't at a Jewish school right now (they were in primary). This is an awful attack and must have been very frightening.

I feel it important to separate this kind of incident from justified protest against the actions of the Israeli government. One of my problems with the daily mails of this world is they tend to use nasty incidents like this to try to silence protest and brand it all as antisemitism. Netanyahu has made all Jews and Jewish sites around the world targets with his warmongering, sadly.

It’s an absolutely abhorrent act, but I don’t think it’s fair to say nothing is done in response. In the UK I get the impression that all bigotry, racism and acts of violence are taking seriously. There is more tolerance here than elsewhere in the world.

Fuck me, that’s your take on this? Kids who’ve likely been nowhere near Palestine and have no part in the horrific events going on there are attacked as they leave school, purely because of their religion and your response is ‘I’m sure they’ll get over it’. What’s wrong with you?

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This. When I was about 8 we lived in N Ireland (dad was in the army) and to get to school our bus (army kids only) had to drive through a small majority catholic town. On several occasions we had adults throwing bricks and metal piping at windows, often breaking them. It was fucking terrifying every time it happened.

I suppose the media thought Greg Wallace was more news worthy. He is not but still...

Fuck sake, some of the posters on this thread, minimising an overtly racist attack with ' Well, that's just kids for you!'

Presumably in the 70s and 80s these posters would also have been waving away racist attacks on south Asian and black heritage kids with a sprightly intoned, 'Children will be children!'

Or maybe they wouldn't. Maybe its just attacks on Jews they refuse to see as racist. Its probably the latter, isn't it?

I didn't say it shouldn't be reported, and dealt with if possible. I just said it perhaps wasn't national news, because such misbehaviour is so common. When more serious attacks or attacks by adults occur I should very much like to hear about them.

More serious than a bus being pelted by rocks, having the thugs get on board the bus, terrorise the kids on board while filming their aggression...something a bit more juicy than that for you?

Sickening. And no doubt what the thugs felt was appropriate for them to record will be popping up on bloody Tiktok

When such attacks against black and asian children were common (actually they still are) we didn't hear about them in national news either.

What an insidious piece of misdirection.

I was responding to posters minimising this as ' kids will be kids' instead of condemning it as blatant racism. As you well know.

Your comment is irrelevant to my point.

In case anyone is concerned about their safety at the march there will be police and CST (community security trust) there.

The word is antisemitic.

As you may need to use it again in your denials, you might as well get it right.

I don’t know about your area specifically, but numerically there are more crimes against Muslims than Jewish people. But the Muslim population is much larger. If you look at crimes per 1000 population Jewish people are much more likely to be victims of hate crime, which obviously impacts how fearful they are. Any individual Jewish person is more likely to be a victim of hate crime and at the very least will know someone else who has been.

Implying that if this were a bus of Muslim kids then it would be headline news is stoking hatred and prejudice.

You know exactly what you were doing. Why not focus on this incident being reported? It’s bad enough on its own.