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

So the yellow ribbons are for the people who died at the music festival..and people are cutting them down ..that's absolutely dispicable..that's a hate crime , surely cutting them down

Yes it is.

It is a racially motivated attack on a minority.

I am horrified by 7/10. It was not a genocidal act. You are suspending reality if you think it was.

You aren’t, I think most of us do, we’re all the ones being labelled “anti semetic” because we can see beyond JUST Israel.

I can’t help remembering, right after the event, appalling footage of groups both here and in Palestine, openly celebrating the 7th October attack.

This. It feels like there's no room for nuanced conversation anymore.
Not agreeing with one set of actions doesn't automatically make you a supporter of the other side.

No.

In response, Israel has committed pretty much every war crime including genocide. This has been confirmed after 2 years of investigation by the UN. Israel say that the UN is biased against them. Likewise for pretty much every NGO that's been involved.

Rather than retaliate like any other country, they vowed that they would starve the people, and that's what they've done. They complain that they're expected to feed the Palestinians, but destroyed always of them supporting themselves and blocked every exit. Children are having amputations without anaesthetic. Babies dying of starvation.

Whether Hamas are underneath the hospitals is a matter of debate (Israeli 'evidence' of this produced has sometimes been shown to be not credible), but whether they are underneath or not, does not excuse the commission of war crimes.

War crimes by their very nature can't be justified. Many children have been killed by snipers, shoot in the head. Journalists have been systematically killed to stop reporting reporting of what the IDF is doing to Palestinians.

The level of destruction in Gaza exceeds that of Dresden.

Meanwhile, the Israeli government and it's members have discussed what to do. It's been suggested the nuke the Palestinians. Some were drawing up plans for a concentration camp. Mass deportation which would amount to ethnic cleansing. They've they've been eyeing up the beachfront real estate.

So no. Not like any country would. Just Israel is allowed to get away with this whilst the world is too scared of being called anti-Semitic to call them to account.

Hamas publicly call for every Jew to be wiped off the planet, these are not a group willing to sit down and work out how to live side by side in peace. They intend to continue this vendetta indefinitely.

You can argue the wisdom in placing a traumatised minority in the Middle East post World War Two, but that ship has sailed and we are where we are. There is a long history of many centuries of Jewish settlements, it’s not like they just arrived out of nowhere.

Do the protesters in this country actually want peace? No. Ask them and you will hear a string of excuses to keep up the hatred.

I thought religion was about feeling peace ,and something to belong to ,a community,something to believe in that brings you comfort .
It seems to me it's about causing pain and suffering, perhaps we forget , whatever god we believe in ,would absolutely not want us hurting each other

I understand your thoughtful point of view. But you say about Hamas that it goes without saying they’re extremist bastards - yet there are posters on this thread objecting to "F* Hamas" stickers (and I don’t think it’s the language that they’re objecting to).

You also say Hamas = terrorists. A corrupt and awful government/organisation which is in power through corrupt means. It's true that they are now governing without the explicit consent of the population as there have been no elections for a long time. But they originally came into power in 2006 by winning an election, defeating the secular Fatah party and gaining the most seats in the Palestinian Parliament. And this was at the time when their founding Charter/Covenant called for the murder of all Jews.

They have since issued a new Charter, vowing eternal enmity to "Zionists" and the destruction of Israel rather than murder of all Jews, but they have never disavowed or condemned the earlier version.

I don’t support the policies of the current Israeli government and have great sympathy for the Palestinian civilians, especially the downtrodden women (and of course children). But let’s not pretend that the civilian Palestinian population bears no responsibility at all for the supremacy of Hamas (just as the right-wing Israelis who voted for Netanyahu also bear responsibility for subsequent events).

Again, that's rubbish.

Literally the month before the attacks netanyahuas showing his map of a United Israel with no Gaza or Westbank in sight. The ruling party have us part of there manifesto that there will be no two-state solution and Netanyahu has never budged on that.

Before the 7/10 attacks, it had been the most deadly year for Palestinians in about a decade. Nearly 500 Palestinians killed and over 12,000 injured by the IDF on settlers. And that was apparently during peacetime.

Things were definitely not improving.

The OP doesn’t condemn the Israeli government anywhere in any of her posts, so it’s fair to assume she feels the murder of tens of thousands of children is justified. I don’t know how anyone can see the news from Gaza without crying unless they’ve completely dehumanized the victims.

Here are Israelis celebrating Palestinian deaths. It's on both sides.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bMVJSfW2fLM

I am no fan of Hamas but that's actually a complete lie. Their charter makes it clear that their issue is not with Jews, but with Israel. Obviously individual members may have their own view, but that's the official stance anyway.

That is simply not true.

There are also similar videos of IDF soldiers literally posing in women’s underwear in Gaza. Disgusting.

Agreed. Terrorism by an army is still terrorism.

Just because one side wears a uniform doesn't mean their indiscriminate killings should be forgiven.

This might help:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/hamas-covenant-israel-attack-war-genocide/675602/

There are no goodies and baddies in this conflict, no right side of history, no amazing outcome where everyone skips off into the sunset holding hands sadly, no winners.

There is antisemitism (murdering babies because evil, controlling the media, having more money which isn’t fair, nefariously influencing events are all antisemitic tropes I have read on here) and it would be amazing if posters could take a breath and read what they write and think - ‘could this be interpreted as antisemitism?’ before posting. I can’t tell if it’s unwitting or not because it’s so common, but it might be nice to try and understand why people are saying some things are antisemitic, rather than dismiss it out of hand with an equivalent of ‘well, you can’t say anything these days without being accused of x’.

Personally I would like the war to stop, aid to be given to those who need it, hostages returned and some kind of plan for the future which limits destruction, war and terrorism. Demonising groups of people makes that harder. Protesting and destroying memorials to people who have died in war and terrorist attacks makes that harder. Being unable to see people can legitimately hold a different view to you and that doesn’t make them evil, a supporter of genocide or a supporter of terrorism makes that harder.

I imagine this will fall on deaf ears though and I’ll get a pithy one line response about how I don’t care about dead babies in Palestine (spoiler alert, I’m not a fan of babies dying anywhere, especially not in man made conflict).

This kind of response is one of the issues.

The poster has never said they are pro hamas, they are anti what the Israeli government have done. Doesn't mean you are pro hamas. Doesn't mean you are anti semetic and it doesn't mean you are racist.

You can be both anti what the Israeli goverment have done and anti hamas which imo is everyone should be. There are two wrong sides in this and it's the innocent that are the ones paying for it.

Hamas has always called for the eradication of Israel.

I am sorry but it does mean exactly those things! If you are out supporting Hamas at a protest and you stand with those calling for the death to all Jews you are COMPLICIT whether you like it or not.

The poster in question wasn't talking about hamas protests or about standing with people calling for the death to all Jews.