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

Thank you

As someone who suffered bereavement in a terror attack, I really cannot comprehend this. Absolutely no humanity.

I saw it yesterday and I've been too angry to say anything until now.

is this one of those situations where human beings don't see each other as human beings anymore? Just see them as avatars or something.

I don’t think Hamas and Palestinian are synonyms. Nor do I think Jewish and Israeli are. Or indeed Jewish and Netanyahu to finish the comparison. When I say f Hamas I mean that very specifically. When I say f Netanyahu I mean that as well.

you can’t say both that Jews shouldn’t be offended by the slogans on these signs because they say ‘globalise the intifada’ and not ‘let’s murder Jews’ and also say that we can’t say F* Hamas without meaning something worse.

I might take off work the rest of the week and let them cover up the flyers and graffiti and move on from their self satisfaction first. I am so, so tired.

You think she wasn't looking smug? Well, to you how DID she look? Because it certainly wasn't unhappy or reflective or hesitant; otherwise she wouldn't have carried out those actions

You know how the majority of the British public voted for Brexit? Does that mean that the consequences of that are the fault of every British person, even the ones who voted remain? This is how stupid your argument is. The Israeli government has slaughtered and oppressed Palestinians since the day it was created. Voting Hamas in 19 years ago is not the cause. Let us not forget that the members of Hamas are Palestinian people who have been driven from their homes and murdered by a hostile neighbouring occupying army for 76 years. Yahya Sinwar was literally born in a refugee camp created by Israel. I personally find that concept hard to even imagine - to literally have had my home stolen from me and my family and to be forced into a refugee camp in my own country. Before the usual pro Israeli manipulation/propaganda machines come out saying I am supporting Hamas actions on October 7, I am absolutely not. But it is such a simple argument to a hugely complex situation. To call Hamas terrorists and IDF an army is just unacceptable considering the heinous, daily terrorist attacks committed by the IDF. To claim Palestinians deserve to be slaughtered because a government was voted in 19 years ago is baseless. From all the posts I have read in the past few days on this issue, my post is the only one I have seen of anyone pointing this out. Pro Israeli posters on the other hand are absolutely happy to post disgusting, offensive things about Palestinians deserving slaughter, Israel is only defending itself, they voted in Hamas so it’s their fault. Etc. But if anybody dares to disagree we are hounded on for being anti semitic and bullied into silence.

As a Muslim, I am sick of people associating Judaism with genocide. The genocide is being done by Zionism/ nationalism. It has nothing to do with Judaism.
There are Palestinian Christian and Jews too(!)

It is disrespectful the ribbons being cut and it shouldn’t be allowed. I’m sorry this is happening.

And Qatar, all channeled to Hamas by Netanyahu who has been quoted as saying it is important to fund Hamas to ensure Gaza and the West Bank are governed by different parties to create division and thwart a unified Palestinian State. However, my point still stands - Israel has the means and a long, open history of using propaganda to further its agenda. The genocide in Gaza is not made up by Hamas.

The reason the ribbons are an issue is due to pure anti semitism and nothing more or less. Anyone with an ounce of humanity would have been respectful and compassionate.

The zealots that are a signed up member of a terrorist organisation will find any reason they can to demonise the Jewish community, so they can remain true to their hatred of Jews.

I will say only one thing IF you cared about the children of Gaza, IF you gave a damn about the suffering and misery in Palestine you would stop your rabid protests full of racial hatred and call an immediate END to the war via the peace plan. Can we expect that to happen now?

I doubt it, because it has nothing to do with the above, that’s just a convenient fig leaf to cover your blatant anti semitism and the protests are a way of making the Jewish communities sad and afraid in their own country.

We really do see you now.

Stop lying.

I don’t think that is ‘bullshit’ as such. In the sense fhat what she says is all true. However, I can see that just saying those things without qualification can come across as though the suffering of the people in Gaza is being dismissed or minimised, when the reality is the suffering is huge.

So then what about the displacement and killing of thousands of innocent Palestinians via the Israeli government before Hamas came into power?

The sadness of the death is the same. For me there is something fundamentally different between a terrorist group doing a massacre and a government doing a genocide.

What a truly awful thing to say.

I cannot believe what I just watched on the BBC and to hear no arrest has been made and the Met are trying to decide whether a crime has been committed! Flagrant anti-semitism! We are not safe in Britain as long as people, like this woman, continue to conflate Judaism and the actions of Israel.

I sincerely hope the hostages are all returned in the coming days, as the news seems to be implying they might.

It’s shameful, cruel and spiteful

there can be no reasoning

But conflating the actions of Israel with the Jewish people is exactly what some posters here do when they say that critics of Israel are being antisemitic. No one can win it seems.

Israel are committing genocide.
The events of October 7th were awful and the hostages should all be released.
It is possible to believe both.

Cutting the ribbons was a disgusting thing to do.

I’ve literally posted a link to a news story many people wouldn’t have seen it.

Hamas is a government too - as well as a terrorist organisation. It can be both.

Reasoning could be anger, sort of Israel killing 60,000+ people in the last few months, due to anger?

That woman is a disgrace OP. Does it help at all to say that she’s one woman?

Most people who care about Palestinian civilians, I think, don’t share her views.

Unfortunately there is a minority amongst those protesting who are either deliberate “bad actors” or have lost the plot.

I personally care for both the Israeli and Palestinian civilians who are suffering, everyone from the hostages to the children dying in Gaza, as well the Jewish and Muslim people in the UK who are being targeted.

I have no time either for Hamas or the current Israeli government.

Yeah, yeah.

The start of your rant is ludicrous because I have never said, and never would say, that the consequences of Hamas's actions are the fault of every Palestinian.

The rest is totally one-sided. Approx 700,000 Jews were forced out of Arab countries in the twentieth century, places their families had lived in for hundreds of years. So they made new lives for themselves elsewhere. They didn’t regard themselves and their descendants as perpetual refugees.

Hmmm, some might say that without a real foundation. But it very much depends on what is said and how it is said.

There's always the cry of 'you can't criticise Israel without being accused of antisemitism' the minute anyone points out racism, yet while it is perfectly legitimate to criticise the Israeli government's actions (and boy is there much to criticise), some of the criticism DOES stray into antisemitic territory and it's important that it's called out when it happens.

Why?
You don’t agree that electing Hamas put them in a position where they were able to cancel future elections and hold onto power?
You don’t agree that their atrocities of two years ago precipitated the terrible attack on Gaza - gave right-wing Israelis an excuse for it, if you like.
You don’t agree that the war in Gaza has been disastrous for Palestinian civilians, especially the women and children not allowed to shelter in the tunnels like members (male, of course) of Hamas?

How odd.

Thanks for that tiktok talking point. It doesn't sound you like you have much understanding of this conflict if you only want people to look up Nakba.

The claim that “Netanyahu supported Hamas” is ridiculous. Of course he didn't. Yes, he found it convenient that Palestinians were divded with a clearly unstate worthy actor but that's very different to supporting them. I can't stand Netanyahu but there seems to be a need on the "pro Palestinian" side to cast him as some cartoonishly evil character. I guess nuance isn't your strong point.

BTW history here didn’t start with Balfour either in 1917. The Jewish people’s connection to the Land of Israel stretches back millennia,. After the Roman wars (70 CE and 135 CE) most Jews were forcibly displaced and ethnically cleansed—but Jewish communities never left the land, especially in the Four Holy Cities: Jerusalem, Hebron, Tzfat, and Tiberias. This tragedy and yearning to return is part of everyday Jewish life and even more so during even the happiest moments in a wedding a glass is broken to remember the destruction of Jerusalem. Every year on Tisha b'Av, Jews fast to remember this too. That's living history.

And speaking of Hebron, why not read about the 1929 Hebron massacre and ethnic cleansing of Jews and destruction of the ancient jewish community? That would be a good read.

Yes, read about the Nakba. But before that how about reading about the UN partition plan which was accepted by the Zionist Palestinians and rejected by the Arab Palestinians. And also you could read about how everywhere the Arabs held was 100% ethnically cleansed of Jews like the Old City of Jerusalem and Gush Etziyon (where they were also massacred).

You could also ask why the Zionist Palestinians declared a state on the day the Brits left in May 1948 but the Arab Palestinains didn't. And why no Palestinian state was subsequently estabished in the WB and Gaza under Arab control.

And also read about the Three Nos of Khartoum after the 1967 war: No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel. Why? Were they still trying to throw the Israelis into the sea as they threatened?

You could also read about how Hamas, at the behest of Iran, was blowing up buses to (successfully) derail the peace process in the 90s.

Put together, this isn’t a story that starts in 1948 or 1917 and certainly not one that ends with easy slogans (from the river to the sea blah blah). It’s a century-plus of rejected coexistence, and hard lessons—one reason many Israelis insist on security first.