Ambulances Set on Fire in Suspected Anti Jewish Attack

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Horrible news that ambulances run by a Jewish charity have been set on fire in Golders Green today.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyj1p49gdpo

AIBU to feel it's got to to with the rise in anti Jewish hate since the allowance of horrible slogans on the weekly marches and in everyday society? What on earth makes people commit such a horrible attack.

I'm 100% with the Jewish community and pray for peace.

This is the blatant anti semitism that many try to deny exists or feel it but hide it.

At least this poster is willing to publicly state it.

People will die because there are now four less life-saving ambulances available.

Pot, kettle, black comes to mind.

Thank you. I have donated

It sounds like your outrage is also fairly selective

No-one was being "deliberately murdered" so please stop banging that drum.

Ahhh, so the ambulances were burned as a consequence of.... what exactly?

What does that even mean ?

Please tell me the last time a Jewish person put on a suicide vest and blew themselves up in a tube station ?

What do you think an acceptable context is for antisemitic acts in London?

This is heartbreaking.
What can we do to stop this, to fight back against it?

At least in the 1930s and 40s it was abundantly clear that Nazism had to be stamped out and was evil. The difficulty today is that people see anti-Semetism as fighting the oppressor because of Palestine, so the anti-Semites think they are on the side of the victims.

It's abhorrent. And I am so bloody tired of trying and failing to explain to DC's generation and to many friends my own age why it is not a one-side-bad, one-side-good situation and why anti-semitism is a terrifying and amoral response to the current issues. I am shut down and accused of Zionism. The way people legitisimse it disgusts and frightens me and I don't know how to respond.

So full of anger at what our country is becoming.
Sick of the anti- semitism.
Keir Starmer is shocked!
We cannot hate our leaders enough.

This is a dreadful thing to do. But I don't know what people expect when a nation tries to accommodate groups who are participating in the most terrible and bitter conflicts, of course all that suffering will have an impact here. It's awful and I hope a peaceful solution comes soon.

Explain.

What have volunteer Jewish ambulance servicemen and women done to deserve this?

What has the community of Golders Green done to deserve this?

The Jewish community in the UK are not responsible for the genocide in Gaza. People need to realise that.

What I don’t understand are the ‘Why did they do it?’ comments

It seems to me it is due to what the IDF are doing in Palestine or that is the excuse people are using for antisemitic acts.

Why doesn’t someone prominent speak out on behalf of British Jews and say they are not Israeli or connected to what Netanyahu is doing and should not be targeted. Instead people wring their hands (eg Starmer)calling people antisemitic with no context and rail about the rise in antisemitism as if it’s just those evil racist Brits at it again

What do you mean by this

I hope your rabbi has told you this, in such a dangerous time, but if denying your religion can ever save your life, God will not be angry. The Jewish faith doesn’t venerate martyrs on the same level the Christian faith does. I understand that it’s probably still terrifying because wtf are you supposed to do - not worship? Not ever gather with other Jews? Not live your life? - but this is a dangerous time and you need to stay safe. Pikuach nefesh includes your own life ♥️ I feel like I’m watching the lead up to WW2 in real time and wondering what I’ll be using our attic for in a couple years. 🤔

Though perhaps more the product of a vacuous head, empty enough to be filled with hate.

Racists?
Racist against which race? I’ve re read the thread but don’t know who you mean.

So it's the Jews' fault because we are accommodated in the UK? Should we be kicked out? Because of what Israel is doing in the middle east? This is an unsettling post. Very 1492 Spain...

It's too late for me to be secretive where I live now but it's definitely on my radar that maybe we should move somewhere else and just never, ever mention it. Spanish Jews in the 1500s vibe. I don't want to teach my children this until I have to but well aware I might be missing the moment where this is an option.

Um no? I honestly cannot fathom what in my post you have interpreted as "it's the fault of Jews" - that is not what I was saying