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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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EmeraldShamrock000 · 07/10/2025 16:47

It was awful, attention seeking behaviour that won't help the hostages or the innocent people that are trapped in Palestine.
I am sympathetic to all the innocent people caught up in this.
The bloodshed is bad enough in the middle east without it spreading on the streets of England.

wrongthinker · 07/10/2025 16:50

ThatLadyLady · 07/10/2025 16:45

Every reliable source has concluded this is a genocide.

Not true. It's very much been a propaganda campaign by Hamas to get the antisemitic idea of Jews committing genocide into the public consciousness. But it doesn't stand up to any scrutiny, as this article clearly demonstrates.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/21/the-gaza-genocide-a-21st-century-blood-libel/

The Gaza ‘genocide’: a 21st-century blood libel

Partisan academics, politicians and journalists have concocted a myth to demonise Israel.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/21/the-gaza-genocide-a-21st-century-blood-libel/

confusedlady10 · 07/10/2025 16:52

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 16:38

There has been some issues on both sides but nothing like this.

The massacre of innocent Palestinians who have been starved, beaten and raped well before Hamas came into power aren't just issues though, they were just as atrocious as Oct 7. Especially considering the amount of innocent people killed in comparison...

ThatLadyLady · 07/10/2025 16:53

wrongthinker · 07/10/2025 16:50

Not true. It's very much been a propaganda campaign by Hamas to get the antisemitic idea of Jews committing genocide into the public consciousness. But it doesn't stand up to any scrutiny, as this article clearly demonstrates.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/21/the-gaza-genocide-a-21st-century-blood-libel/

“Spiked online” v the United Nations, hmmmm

confusedlady10 · 07/10/2025 16:55

Linzloopy · 07/10/2025 16:43

You use the words "massacre" and "genocide" very freely. They should be reserved for their true meaning or they become meaningless.

Wiping out a whole group of people? Over 60k innocent people (many of which women and babies) have been killed. They lured out innocent Palestinians under the guise of handing out free flour and aid and bombed over 100 people at once. If that isn't clear genocide or a massacre to you then we will never agree.

Linzloopy · 07/10/2025 16:55

ThatLadyLady · 07/10/2025 16:45

Every reliable source has concluded this is a genocide.

We were talking about the time before Hamas was in power.

wrongthinker · 07/10/2025 16:56

ThatLadyLady · 07/10/2025 16:53

“Spiked online” v the United Nations, hmmmm

Why don't you read the article and tell me which bits you don't agree with, why you don't find the supporting evidence from multiple sources convincing, and what counter evidence you would provide. Then we can have a conversation about it. Until then, your comment is worthless.

DreamTheMoors · 07/10/2025 16:58

I’m so very sorry for the Israeli people.
I’m so very sorry for the Gazan people.

I think Netanyahu is crazy. That doesn’t make me antisemitic.
I think Hamas is a hate group - I don’t know what that makes me.
And I think Donald Trump should be removed from office - I think that makes me a good American who loves her country and believes in the Constitution.

Linzloopy · 07/10/2025 17:01

confusedlady10 · 07/10/2025 16:55

Wiping out a whole group of people? Over 60k innocent people (many of which women and babies) have been killed. They lured out innocent Palestinians under the guise of handing out free flour and aid and bombed over 100 people at once. If that isn't clear genocide or a massacre to you then we will never agree.

What?? You said But what about the massacre and genocide of Palestinians by the Israeli government before Hamas were elected into power and that is what I was replying to.

BadgesforBadgers · 07/10/2025 17:02

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Reported.

This thread was started with aggression and anger, and has never let up.

There simply isn't a discussion to be had on this, both 'sides' think each others stand point is abhorrent.

Notmycircusnotmyotter · 07/10/2025 17:04

AngeloMysterioso · 07/10/2025 10:18

Let’s not pretend that if Israel truly wanted to completely destroy Palestine and kill every living person there, it would have happened by now. They could have done it within a week.

Genocide is what Hamas would do to Israel if they had the means. Their stated aim is to wipe Israel and all Jewish people from the face of the earth.

Hamas continues to seize aid trucks and keep it for themselves or sell it for profit. Hamas continues to refuse peace deals that Israel has already agreed to. Hamas still has not freed the hostages.

This a thousand times over

Jumpingthruhoops · 07/10/2025 17:06

AngeloMysterioso · 07/10/2025 09:58

Everyone should be saying Fuck Hamas. Including those who are pro-Palestine. Including the people in Palestine who are suffering as a direct result of the attack.

But no. The people of Palestine that you feel so sorry for cheered in the street when they saw footage of the attacks. They crowded around the truck carrying Shani Louk’s beautiful, broken body and spat on her corpse.

But yellow ribbons and “Fuck Hamas” stickers make you uncomfortable. Ok.

This! 👏👏❤️ The masks are slipping...

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 17:11

BadgesforBadgers · 07/10/2025 17:02

Reported.

This thread was started with aggression and anger, and has never let up.

There simply isn't a discussion to be had on this, both 'sides' think each others stand point is abhorrent.

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Do you honestly think it’s okay to support any organisation that wants to eradicate an entire race?

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 17:11

I am neither angry or aggressive - I am however calling out racism and anti semitism when I see it.

nomas · 07/10/2025 17:14

kirinm · 07/10/2025 16:28

Apparently the woman is Jewish. Is it still anti semetic?

The Telegraph are reporting she is a Palestinian-Jewish PhD researcher.

‘Ms Yahlom studied at Cambridge University and Goldsmiths, and her bio for Cream Westminster reads: “Nadia Dina Yahlom is a Palestinian-Jewish and British artist and visual anthropologist, looking at hauntedness, supernatural life and the bio/necropolitical between Palestine and the UK.
“Her research and practice considers how humans, artefacts and landscapes reverberate with colonial violence.”’

archive.ph/uD2iD

nomas · 07/10/2025 17:15

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 17:11

Do you honestly think it’s okay to support any organisation that wants to eradicate an entire race?

Indeed, one says it wants to eradicate a state, and one is actually doing it.

It sounds like it’s ok to do it, but not to say it.

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 17:16

nomas · 07/10/2025 17:14

The Telegraph are reporting she is a Palestinian-Jewish PhD researcher.

‘Ms Yahlom studied at Cambridge University and Goldsmiths, and her bio for Cream Westminster reads: “Nadia Dina Yahlom is a Palestinian-Jewish and British artist and visual anthropologist, looking at hauntedness, supernatural life and the bio/necropolitical between Palestine and the UK.
“Her research and practice considers how humans, artefacts and landscapes reverberate with colonial violence.”’

archive.ph/uD2iD

Well she has just blown up her career and reputation.

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 17:16

nomas · 07/10/2025 17:15

Indeed, one says it wants to eradicate a state, and one is actually doing it.

It sounds like it’s ok to do it, but not to say it.

You do know Israel could have done that easily and choose not to.

nomas · 07/10/2025 17:17

Jumpingthruhoops · 07/10/2025 17:06

This! 👏👏❤️ The masks are slipping...

Yep, the mask slipped when one poster said the lives of Gazans are worth less than others.

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 17:18

nomas · 07/10/2025 17:17

Yep, the mask slipped when one poster said the lives of Gazans are worth less than others.

The lives of everyone are of equal value.

nomas · 07/10/2025 17:18

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 17:16

You do know Israel could have done that easily and choose not to.

Not through choice, they know they would be a pariah.

But your glee at what Israel could do, funded by the US who they look to as Daddy, is telling.

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 17:21

nomas · 07/10/2025 17:18

Not through choice, they know they would be a pariah.

But your glee at what Israel could do, funded by the US who they look to as Daddy, is telling.

I am certainly not gleeful about anyone being killed in this utterly pointless, futile war. Hamas should return the hostages and agree to a peace deal.

sunflower1022 · 07/10/2025 17:21

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 17:16

Well she has just blown up her career and reputation.

Sadly I don’t think that’s going to be the case.

Thegreyhound · 07/10/2025 17:21

wrongthinker · 07/10/2025 16:50

Not true. It's very much been a propaganda campaign by Hamas to get the antisemitic idea of Jews committing genocide into the public consciousness. But it doesn't stand up to any scrutiny, as this article clearly demonstrates.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/21/the-gaza-genocide-a-21st-century-blood-libel/

‘Spiked’ is a right wing provocation site involving ex members of Living Marxism and the like. It is not serious journalism in any way

Alittlefeedbackwouldbenice · 07/10/2025 17:21

Nestingbirds · 07/10/2025 17:18

The lives of everyone are of equal value.

So we okay to put out 67,000 ribbons, one for each Palestinian life taken? Or would you see that as palestine-palestine Palestine being shoved in your face?

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