To stop my son from presenting as Jewish at school

[Wonderberry]

I really wish this wasn't the case.

My son wants to wear his kippah (skullcap) at school. This is entirely his choice, and something that he has chosen to start wearing recently. He just wants to express his religious and cultural background.

Unfortunately, I don't feel like he would be safe to do so. I hate that this is where we are at currently in the UK, but I know it is the reality. He goes to a community school in London, and doesn't understand why he cannot wear his kippah at school. On cultural days, he also cannot share his culture either.

Sorry - what? Why does OP need to tell her 6yo son this? Whats it got to do with him? Or any 6yo boy? Genuinely confused

There has been a steep rise in anti-semitism statistically after the conflict started. What's wrong with mentioning that?

The comment has been deleted now but the context was that this is why British Jews experience antisemitism. Like it should just be accepted and little boys need to take accountability

She really shouldn't have to explain the conflict or her views on it to a 7 year old child.

You can't say 'Jews are not very popular at the moment'!

I don't think this comment will instil any confidence in the OP to allow her child to wear the Kippah.

So incredibly f**ked up that this is Britain today.

Possible he can wear in school only where he should be safe? Talk thru /Work thru with him appropriate responses to questions. And appropriate reaction and actions to unkind things?

What can I do to change things?

This is horrifying.

You are aware that Jewish =/= Israel right? And even if it does a wee child isn't really in a position to figure out how to fix this situation?

Also legit laughing (in shock) at the idea of 'gently explaining' a horrible situation like this to a tiny child and expecting them to make any sense of it when actual grownups can't explain it either. Wow. I really, really hate people sometimes.

Your post was a master class in modern day anti-Semitism including the blood libel lie. It has rightly been deleted.

@Halfemptyhalfling What the hell?

@op only you can risk assess how safe you think he’ll be, because it’s so variable, and his safety is really the only important consideration, and I mean emotional and physical safety. I’d err on the side of caution if you are not sure 🫂

I’m Jewish (orthodox) too, and when DH and DS went to the UK recently, in some places (eg the airport) they wore baseball caps instead of kippot, but other times they just wore their kippot like normal. Just depended where and when.

Why don't some people on here understand something very basic; do not blame all Jewish people - including children - for events in Gaza, and do not excuse antisemitism.

Are you actually serious? So any politician with any sort of religion represents their entire religion themselves? So... the Taliban? And Christian nations who supported slavery? And India and Pakistan? These rulers are all representing... religion?

Jews are not popular because the government in a completely different country has chosen to fight a war in this manner? When that decision is literally not the doing of any Jewish person in the UK or any Jewish people around the world other than the Prime Minister and government of a completely different country and that somehow means that anti Semitism and hatred and actual and threatened violence against Jewish people is 'explainable'.

@Halfemptyhalfling i have a non Jewish 8yo. Should I be telling him this too? Surely it’s relevant to all little boys, or it isn’t?

Should 6yo Muslim girls worried about wearing head scarves be told about legalised child rape in Iraq? Or the grooming gangs in Rochdale?

Also on October 7th young women were raped killed tortured and babies and toddlers murdered. What is a rational reaction to you? I know we live in a wet wipe country that would do bigger all we it happened to use but you can’t expect Israel to say “Oh well!” And sit idly by?

And just on your definition of “inhuman” - starving Gazans is inhuman but raped Jewish teenagers and murdered Jewish babies is really nothing to get too worked up over, right?

Its terrible people in Gaza are starving. But perhaps, just perhaps, it’s not just Israel to blame? Perhaps it’s the terrorists who steal from their own people and refuse to return hostages they kidnapped like they agreed? I mean I know it’s a long standing tradition to blame everything on the Jews but let’s be rational.

I'm very active in pro-Palestinian circles and what you said is absolutely not acceptable.

Nope. It’s just being discriminatory. It’s not more than that.

Jesus H Christ on a stick … you are Mento.

I’ll call him later. Thanks 🙏

so relieved we have a fix for antisemitism and our unpopularity!

@Halfemptyhalfling

…I’m really confused. What does a yo boy not being able to wear his kippah have to do with Gaza? I don’t think this 6yo boy is part of the Israeli government.

So please explain to me how it’s “more than” just discrimination to be hateful towards a 6yo British boy? What more is there to it? Is there a large number of 6yo British boys working for Netenyahu? Explain it to me like I’m stupid

Eh?? Tony Blair was a Catholic - did he “Bring his religion into dispute” when he started an illegal war??

You do know that Israel is only part Jewish right?? And that there are Muslim leaders

and who is Benjamin yetanahu? @Halfemptyhalfling

Let’s remember Israel is only 70% Jewish and leaders are not all Jewish.

But let’s not get facts get in the way of hate 🙄