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To be utterly disgusted by the woman cutting down yellow ribbons commemorating the October 7th victims in Muswell Hill yesterday morning

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AngeloMysterioso · 07/10/2025 09:43

When Jewish people are being attacked and murdered on their way to synagogue on Yom Kippur

When you literally can’t move or look in any direction without Palestine Palestine Palestine in our faces

On the eve of the anniversary of the worst atrocity committed against Jewish people since the Holocaust, a small, unobtrusive memorial for the victims of that unthinkable, barbaric attack was destroyed yesterday by a despicable woman who turned up with scissors and cut the ribbons down, one by one.

Ribbons for women and girls who were raped and murdered.
Ribbons for babies ripped from their parents’ arms and slaughtered.
Ribbons for men beaten to death.
Ribbons for the hostages still suffering every moment.

And this disgusting individual took it upon herself to come along with a pair of scissors and cut each one away. Her excuse? They “condone genocide”.

Let’s not pretend for a moment that that was her true motivation. It was a revolting demonstration of the antisemitism that has become so shamefully rife in this country that it sickens me.

This woman needs to be named and shamed for the loathsome person she is.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/07/woman-filmed-cutting-ribbons-commemorating-israeli-hostages/

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/met-police-woman-ribbons-israel-hostages-london-manchester-synagogue-b1251594.html

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/woman-filmed-cutting-down-ribbons-commemorating-israeli-hostages-in-north-london-5HjdF2y2/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15167737/amp/woman-cuts-yellow-ribbons-israeli-hostages-london.html

https://inews.co.uk/news/anger-woman-filmed-cutting-down-ribbons-london-memorial-israeli-hostages-3961369

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ThatLadyLady · 07/10/2025 13:04

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 12:56

Great so you do support the peace plan? We agree on that at least

Does the peace plan involve the full withdrawal of Israel and the removal of the settlements?

Ablondiebutagoody · 07/10/2025 13:05

dahliadream · 07/10/2025 12:54

Sorry? The motives other than 'stop this sickening genocide, and the slaughter of thousands upon thousands of women and children'?

Yes, the obvious anti-semetic motives, highlighted by the dancing in the streets at the time of 7/10 and the desecration of memorials like these ribbons. They have nothing to do with Israeli government policy. But you know that. It's convenient cover for your real views though isn't it?

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 13:06

It’s going to become blindingly obvious very soon that the ‘protesters/racists’ do not wish for peace at all.

They went Israel to disappear in the same way Hamas do. They want to see an end to all the Jewish ‘settlers’ as they see them. They won’t say it overtly, but they will continue the racist hatred and protests, and try to excuse their on going support for a death ideology as supporting the ‘babies’. The truth is about to come out about the real reason these people are chanting on the streets.

Most of the nation is waking to the reality that we have a deep rooted minority of truly anti semitic nut jobs that live amongst us, in plain sight, and are just about to be revealed for what they are really are.

I sincerely hope for peace. I support the aid and care to the civilians caught up in their hideous nightmare under Hamas. Can you imagine what a proper government could do? One that was motivated to actually support Palestine rather than use the people as cannon fodder.

OhMaria2 · 07/10/2025 13:07

Ablondiebutagoody · 07/10/2025 09:51

I'm pleased that the real motives of the pro Palestine movement are becoming obvious to everyone

Oh stop it. If all israelis aren't genocide happy murderers then anti genocide protesters aren't all anti semitic lunatics.

Palestine is in everyone's faces because there's a man made famine currently murdering children. That is as upsetting as this action no?

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 13:08

OhMaria2 · 07/10/2025 13:07

Oh stop it. If all israelis aren't genocide happy murderers then anti genocide protesters aren't all anti semitic lunatics.

Palestine is in everyone's faces because there's a man made famine currently murdering children. That is as upsetting as this action no?

Hamas should be held account for the best part of thirty years of famine. Absolutely.

StewkeyBlue · 07/10/2025 13:08

PurpleThistle7 · 07/10/2025 12:58

this is the pinned post for the organisation leading the protest where I live today.

scroll through and see the posters and talks and signs I navigate daily. They do not recognise Israel, they absolutely mean exactly what I hear with their ‘river to the sea’ chant, and they have no interest in peace.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C_D3DSZIL_n/?igsh=ZDFpYmFweHYwMTlo

@PurpleThistle7 You may want to take that link down - it outs you.

Bottleplant · 07/10/2025 13:08

I haven't been to any of the protests, so only know what I see on TV, but all those old ladies being carried off after sitting quietly, are ranting racists?

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 13:09

StewkeyBlue · 07/10/2025 13:08

@PurpleThistle7 You may want to take that link down - it outs you.

🫥😂

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 13:10

Bottleplant · 07/10/2025 13:08

I haven't been to any of the protests, so only know what I see on TV, but all those old ladies being carried off after sitting quietly, are ranting racists?

Oh the old ladies have been brain washed, they have no idea what the river to the sea even means. They think they are there calling for peace and an end to the war. It’s very sad isn’t it.

ThatLadyLady · 07/10/2025 13:10

Bottleplant · 07/10/2025 13:08

I haven't been to any of the protests, so only know what I see on TV, but all those old ladies being carried off after sitting quietly, are ranting racists?

Of course not. It says a lot that they think they are.

OhMaria2 · 07/10/2025 13:10

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 13:08

Hamas should be held account for the best part of thirty years of famine. Absolutely.

And should israel for the current deliberate starvation of a civilian population?

nomas · 07/10/2025 13:11

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 13:10

Oh the old ladies have been brain washed, they have no idea what the river to the sea even means. They think they are there calling for peace and an end to the war. It’s very sad isn’t it.

Netanyahu is also calling for the river to the sea.

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 13:13

OhMaria2 · 07/10/2025 13:10

And should israel for the current deliberate starvation of a civilian population?

I fail to see why after the mass murder of thousands of their people why they would want to continue to pay for food for those that kill them? I can kind of see their point.
Given Hamas hasn’t fed its own nation for decades I rather feel they should be taking some responsibility.

Fortunately, this is old news aid has been flowing for weeks now.

PurpleThistle7 · 07/10/2025 13:15

StewkeyBlue · 07/10/2025 13:08

@PurpleThistle7 You may want to take that link down - it outs you.

Does it? I’ve never used my name on here but I’ve definitely mentioned what city I live in. Hadn’t occurred to me…

SpaceRaccoon · 07/10/2025 13:17

You do not get to dictate what everyone should be saying.
State your views calmly, there is no need for thought policing.

No-one's doing that 😂

LivelyCrab · 07/10/2025 13:19

Perhaps it’s naive of e, but i find it so tragic that people are so radicalised on either side that they can’t find any common ground of human empathy.

Today I’m thinking of the hostages, and my thoughts are with the whole Jewish community.

The same as my thoughts are with the poor innocent Palestinian women and children being murdered every day.

It’s great to stand up for what you think is right, but at the moment it’s coming at the cost of our own communities peace and cohesion.

Please don’t let hate that exists across the world divide our country. We need to all have empathy for the collective pain and trauma that exists in that part of the world to allow them to move forward in any productive way.

HermioneWeasley · 07/10/2025 13:19

JustJani · 07/10/2025 09:47

I live in an area with a huge number of yellow ribbons and posters commemorating the victims and to be honest, it's uncomfortable. It's become more than a memorial, it's now a pro-Israel political statement. As demonstrated by the fact the ribbons are often accompanied by "Fuck Hamas" stickers and the like.

I do have some sympathy for Israel's position - more than the general public, probably - but I certainly don't support the current decimation of Palestine and I don't like the way the whole locality now seems to have been branded pro-Israeli, it doesn't represent me for sure.

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Hamas are a proscribed terrorist group. Why shouldnt they get fucked. Who doesn’t want to see Hamas dismantled?

BunfightBetty · 07/10/2025 13:20

Krakinou · 07/10/2025 12:38

Maybe OP could clarify for us if she supports the Israeli government actions in Gaza and the West Bank since she’s been asked by many posters.

What relation does that bear to the topic of the thread?

The thread is about the actions of this woman who took it upon herself to unilaterally remove memorials to murder and torture victims.

Why do you feel the need to go off-topic and police the opinions of the OP?

IHaveAlwaysLivedintheCastle · 07/10/2025 13:20

OhMaria2 · 07/10/2025 13:10

And should israel for the current deliberate starvation of a civilian population?

I was puzzled by comments made by Palestinians that following deliveries of aid prices for food in Palestine went up.

Who is selling food delivered as aid and why?

Linzloopy · 07/10/2025 13:20

ThatLadyLady · 07/10/2025 12:32

This is what is frustrating. You can’t seem to separate the Palestinian people from Hamas because you, deep down, think the genocide is justified and want to group them all together.

How did you acquire your miraculous mind-reading ability, that allows you to know with certainty what other people are thinking?

I don’t support the Israeli actions in Gaza, though I’m not at all sure about the word "genocide". I have great sympathy for Palestinian civilians trapped in a terrible situation, especially the children and downtrodden women. But you seem to think that "the Palestinian people" have nothing to do with Hamas - yet although Hamas have clung into power without elections since 2006, in that year they were voted into power by "the Palestinian people". This was at a time when their founding Charter was calling for the murder of all Jews. And they defeated the secular party Hamas to be elected into a majority in the Palestinian Parliament, so I think we can safely conclude that a majority of voters then didn’t disagree with their policies.

Tessisme · 07/10/2025 13:21

There will always be those who are so consumed with hatred that they can’t muster up any compassion for ‘the other side’. People should be permitted to remember and respect the dead without all the whataboutery. The fact that more Palestinians have died doesn’t make the deaths of these innocent people any less tragic.

nomas · 07/10/2025 13:22

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 13:13

I fail to see why after the mass murder of thousands of their people why they would want to continue to pay for food for those that kill them? I can kind of see their point.
Given Hamas hasn’t fed its own nation for decades I rather feel they should be taking some responsibility.

Fortunately, this is old news aid has been flowing for weeks now.

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It was aid provided by other countries.

You really have no clue what you're on about.

BunfightBetty · 07/10/2025 13:23

SalonDesRefuses · 07/10/2025 12:43

It's awful what that women did and it must have been so upsetting.

However...I wish people would stop calling anyone who is against genocide, antisemitic. I find it bizarre there is hatred towards people just for being Jewish, it has never entered my head - ever.

I am, however, against the tactics used by the Israeli government.

The ribbons were not a symbol FOR genocide. They are not a symbol of support for Israel, Netanyahu or the IDF.

They are simply a memorial to the victims of mass murder, torture and kidnapping carried out by Hamas on 7th October.

I can't imagine what kind of compassionless, unthinking cunt you'd have to be to do this.

nomas · 07/10/2025 13:23

SpaceRaccoon · 07/10/2025 13:17

You do not get to dictate what everyone should be saying.
State your views calmly, there is no need for thought policing.

No-one's doing that 😂

Telling everybody what they should be saying is dictating.

ForeverPombear · 07/10/2025 13:25

Linzloopy · 07/10/2025 13:20

How did you acquire your miraculous mind-reading ability, that allows you to know with certainty what other people are thinking?

I don’t support the Israeli actions in Gaza, though I’m not at all sure about the word "genocide". I have great sympathy for Palestinian civilians trapped in a terrible situation, especially the children and downtrodden women. But you seem to think that "the Palestinian people" have nothing to do with Hamas - yet although Hamas have clung into power without elections since 2006, in that year they were voted into power by "the Palestinian people". This was at a time when their founding Charter was calling for the murder of all Jews. And they defeated the secular party Hamas to be elected into a majority in the Palestinian Parliament, so I think we can safely conclude that a majority of voters then didn’t disagree with their policies.

Because the person who she quoted said 'They aren’t separate that’s why.' when talking about Hamas and the Palestinian. It wasn't a mind-reading ability it's what the poster had previously said.