To be shocked that this is happening in the UK in 2026

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https://x.com/jeanhatchet/status/2023017313327317331?s=46&t=N3lQrZ7NOBmzt0lfDUYXPA

Jean Hachet posted this today. Men going door to door in Sheffield looking for people who aren't boycotting Israel. The man grabbed one of the women by throat and headbutted her when challenged. Feels like something out of the 1930s

Yes you could look at it that way too, I suppose. If you assumed that the hate marches were benign too.

I agree. I find both distasteful and the latter appalling. However I don’t think we’ve yet seen evidence that they were doing the latter.

so because you don't like her you are not prepared to believe that this has been happening?

Well it has. Not just in Sheffield, but in other cities. Started in London as far as i can make out.

Where did I say I didn’t like her? I asked for the evidence, the OP provided some and I thanked them for it.

Do they seriously think they’re going to find people who say ‘my goodness, the Palestinians are being attacked. I had no idea!’?

But why would they need to come back with their leaflets at all?
Just give them to the people who want them and leave the others alone.

Another thing is we see very few obviously Israeli goods in UK supermarkets anyway. Citrus fruit maybe?

I've definitely had fruit and veg from the West Bank (as it was labelled as such). But wouldn't that be pro-Palestinian?

I wonder if these people also boycott medical, pharmaceutical and high tech imports from Israel, or is it just dates and oranges they’re passionate about.

Not necessarily. Israelis often sell goods marketed as Palestinian on land taken from Palestinians. I think it's a way of thwarting boycotts. It's disgraceful really and isn't really doing much for the Israeli cause in the public eye.

OK.

The Israeli government are not going to give a flying fig about "Tiffany in Brightons" opinion

So keep it off the doorstep

No they could be from Israeli managed farms on illegal settlements. As part of the ICJ ruling which determined that Israel were committing racial segregation Israel were asked to withdraw these illegal settlements and provide reparations and facilitate the return of the victims to their stolen land. Israel have declined to do that and instead are expanding these illegal settlements using settler violence and apartheid laws to do so.

Yes, all whilst the eyes of the world are on Gaza. Nothing to see here.

THIS 100%. I'm glad someone else said it.

Leaflets through doors? OK. Knocking on doors? Nope. They need to work on their spelling too.

@LivingTheThighLife I'm so sorry. We're literally at the point where Matt Lucas is receiving abuse in public for the crime of being Jewish, so even being secular British man who doesn't comment publicly on the issue isn't enough to keep him safe. No wonder you feel this way.

I’ve seen the video but only that.
So are they promoting a campaign to boycott Israel? Or are they ‘Jew hunting’? Because that’s totally different. There are, after all, Jews who would boycott Israel.

The people who are filming are clearly being provocative. Nobody's coming out of this smelling of roses.

All this except I’m an immigrant and moved to Scotland 20 years ago. I never thought of myself as Jewish first but after the last few years it’s absolutely how many others see me. My daughter has been attacked at school, my workplace is papered with globalise my death posters and my centre of town is a no go zone for me on weekends. I have never considered immigrating to Israel until this last year - at least in Israel I have some sort of group, I’m all alone here and I have no idea how to keep my kids safe.

Think OP just broke the internet's bullshit meter.

You should work for the Daily Fail OP. They love this level of manipulation!

Gosh aren’t you edgy?

eh?
What these people have been doing (in parts of London, apparently Brighton and now Sheffield) are checking if people are boycotting Israel then noting down those who say "no" and intimidating them.

What is "far right" about thinking that is absolutely appalling behaviour? I would hate to think these fuckers would knock on my mum's door and intimidate her like that.

Why "far right" though? afaik Hatchet is a pretty lefty lesbian?

i read about it (can't remember where so no links) happening in Brighton. And what i read was they were going - groups of men - knocking on doors, asking if the inhabitants boycott Israel, and then agressively asking why not, and telling them they support genocide and saying "we have made a note of your address".

Which sounds menacing. And i would also like to know, with GDPR rules as they are, how they are recording my address (and name?), how they are storing it, for how long, and what they are doing with it.

FWIW: i don't boycott israel knowingly, but i tend not to buy out of season fruit and veg etc. (did buy oranges at the weekend, possibly from Israel, but i generally buy them from spain). I enthusiastically and wholeheartedly supported the boycott of South Africa back in the day, and would do again if it was a country i though would give a flying fuck what the rest of the world thinks of them and therefore would change their actions. Israel isn't afaik, that state, so i wonder how much a boycott will hurt them. Since we also know that not everyone in Israel supports what is going on?

They'd not do well in B'ton

Is any of it true?