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

[AngeloMysterioso]

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

Absolutely.

So many on this thread, and in the population at large, who are so eaten up with bigotry, racism and so intoxicated by their own sense of self-righteousness that they have totally lost their humanity (if they ever had it). Who have no compassion for victims if they happen to be 'on the other side' to their pet side.

It's absolutely sickening.

She is policing everyone else's opinions and chucking out "let's not pretend"s 🙄 around whenever people point out that opposing genocide is not anti-Semitic.

Are old people incapable of being racist then?

You have a different experience of life to me, then, clearly.

Wtf are you on about? Israel aren't refusing to pay for Gaza's food, they're preventing other people from giving it to them by blocking aid from the country! Which is a war crime!

Who, the OP?

The topic of the thread is about the despicable removal of a memorial to murder, torture and kidnap victims.

Taking down the ribbons is not an anti-genocide gesture unless you are so caught up in antisemitism that you genuinely think it is a-ok as a protest against Israel. The only way removing those ribbons can be seen as anti-genocide is if you conflate the victims being Jewish with the actions of the Israeli government. And if you conflate the Jewish people in this country who tie the ribbons with the actions of the government thousands of miles away in Israel, purely because they share the same religion/ethnicity. That is anti-semitic.

Opposing genocide is not, in and of itself, anti-semitic, but you can see on this thread and all others on this site and elsewhere that the two often (but not always) are conflated.

In 2023, in the months leading up to October 45 Palestinian children were killed by Israel.
Can we get some ribbons made?

Correction: I meant to say Hamas "defeated the secular party Fatah".

The Labour givernment, especially under Corbyn/Starmer, was/is very antisemitic, the weekly pro - Pali protests encourage anti semitism.

Corbyn was never in Government.

Starmer is married to a Jewish lady.

What concerns me is that it takes a high level of hate and indoctrination to want to go out of your way to cut these yellow ribbons commemorating the October 7th victims whilst being be filmed and with the consequences of being named and shamed and possibly prosecuted.

Now at some point the current war in Gaza will end or descalate and this woman's hate and indoctrination will not simply vanish, if anything it will get worse.

So my concern is that it will only take a very small step for her to choose to escalate her actions into violent terrorist action in the UK or at the very least supporting or sympathising with those that do.

Surely some Palestinian's cheered in the same way that some Israeli's are cheering what's happening in Gaza rn. Tarring everyone with the same brush is the problem.
Innocent people do not deserve to die for any cause.

Telling everybody what they should be saying is dictating.

Wrong, it's expressing an opinion. You're just deflecting from the actual topic.

My real views are that I find the murder of innocent people abhorrent, regardless of race of religion. I am far from anti-Semitic and absolutely agree that Hamas are despicable. However I also believe that this response is disproportionate and I am broken hearted at the loss of life in Palestine.

I think her point is that a memorial is one thing, a political statement dominating an area (on either side frankly - pro Israel or pro-Palestine) is uncomfortable.

But the Israeli government and a significant number of Israeli citizens, especially settlers in the West Bank don't want peace either. How can there ever be a proper Palestinian government when the Israeli government won't allow it?

You only have to look at how the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank was only supposed to be temporary under the 1999 agreement, as a stepping stone to an independent state, but the refusal of the Israeli government to end military rule and continue settlement expansion has prevented that from every happening.

People who truly want peace recognise that Hamas and certain members of the current Israeli government are as bad as each other, but also recognise the power imbalance.

"River to the Sea" is not just a Hamas idea - it is something Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, Smotrich and others have all said in relation to the idea of Greater Israel. In the 1970's it was literally part of the Likud manifesto ("Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.")

Ben Gvir, Smotrich and Katz have all said that they want to forcibly relocate the population of Gaza and have announced yet another expansion of settlements in the West Bank which they have very openly said is designed to cut the territory in half and end any possibility of a Palestinian state.

Settler violence in the West Bank continues against Palestinians with attacks and destruction of homes, farms and schools. It has only every been nominally policed by the Israeli ministry and even less so lately. 100's of Palestinians have been killed and forcibly relocated there in the past 12 months alone.

I believe that the Gazan Palestinians are oppressed just as much by Hamas as they are Israel, and above all the children are innocent victims in all of this. The violence has to stop - but that won't happen while people take sides and believe that one side is more justified in their actions as another.

YANBU. Inhumane. I'm very sorry to anyone who feels threatened by this behaviour. Peace for all should be the only goal ❤️

Oh that's ok then. They stopped deliberately starving children and let some aid in. Crazy talk.

Of course she shouldn't have taken down the ribbons. But equally, OP's comment When you literally can’t move or look in any direction without Palestine Palestine Palestine in our faces is extremely unhelpful.
People seem to be increasingly conflating being anti genocide with anti semitism. Can we not, as human beings, abhor the initial Hamas attack and at the same time abhor the utterly disproportionate response by Israel?

It's in bad taste, particularly so close to the Manchester attacks and 7/7 anniversary.

The Isreali govt is commiting genocide, but of course that doesn't mean all Jewish people are to blame.

Same way all Muslims aren't responsible for 9/11 etc.

And you can be in favour of a free Palestine without being antisemitic

This x10000000.
Its all so hyped up and there is no rational debate anywhere to be found.

Just to be clear-are you saying that anybody who is opposed to the Israeli Government’s actions in Gaza is by definition anti semitic?

I’m sorry but how do you know that every single civilian in Palestine crowded around that truck? If you truly know that all the people you saw weren’t Hamas, just from watching a single video… Wow, can you buy me a lottery ticket?

Totally agree @AngeloMysterioso I watched a few seconds of the footage of her doing it, and her smug look as people whose relatives have died in the October 7 massacre/pogrom or are still hostages protested with her.

I had to stop watching as it was too upsetting.

I'm not Jewish, but the Jew hatred in this country at the moment is really really distressing.

“The Israeli govt is commiting genocide, but of course that doesn't mean all Jewish people are to blame.”

Yes and just like every Palestinian isn’t to blame, and doesn’t deserve to die - for the actions of Hamas.

But you don’t apportion any blame to Israel?

Limited availability of food drove prices up? No really? Criminals taking advantage of a man made famine? Wow no way!