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.

They were dressed completely in black, from head to foot so 'sophisticated' enough to hide themselves from being identified.

Well done on both defending the hateful antisemitic perpetrators and also making two antisemitic suggestions yourself. Impressive stuff.

Absolute tripe. I haven’t even got the words to express my disgust for this “false flag”bollocks

Are people that ill equipped these days to analyse situations they will parrot whatever crap they hear on Tik Tok?

it’s times like these you realise how Hitler came to power!

Anyone volunteering with them will 100% prioritise saving a life over all else. They will drive and use equipment on Shabbat and touch anyone or anything that needs touching. They volunteer 365 days a year and will help anyone. I cannot find a single downside to this.

Maybe the Tik Tok antisemitics are putting forward very obviously false narratives that are being picked up by useful idiots to spread on the off chance some other useful idiot will believe a complete load of anti semitic bollocks that really should be a crime - maybe???

Unbelievable, isn't it? I think we heard "false flag" from someone upthread....

That's the point. When Itzik from Hatzola tells you he's taking you to hospital on Shabbos, you know he's already decided it's pikuach nefesh. If it's Saffron from the London Ambulance Service, she doesn't understand why you might be reluctant.

Is anyone else feeling a bit of a sea change here? British people tend to be very tolerant until, suddenly they are not! They will be pushed so far until
suddenly they push back - very hard.
They also hold volunteering and healthcare in almost religious regard.
The outcry and massive donations suggests that people are outraged at this antisemitism- Iran bombing UK assets and threatening Europe was bad mistake as was the bombing of the ambulances. Antisemites are flailing around, throwing ludicrous accusations which would be laughable if they weren’t fuelled by abhorrent bigotry.

I hope there is a sea change @Wellthisisdifficult

Hope that enough people have had enough of tolerating people in our communities that are full of hate and racist attitudes to Jews. That they will influence the government to take a firmer stance against antisemitism.

Seems so.

This is why it’s even more important than ever to highlight anti semitism whenever it appears, no matter how innocent wide eyed “just putting it out there” the bigot is.

And still they continue with their bigotry, as this afternoon on this thread illustrates. Hateful.

I'm a member of a really small Jewish community in the UK. We are varying in orthodoxy, as most of us have come to our rural community for a variety of reasons. There are under 15 of us.

When October 7 happened, none of us said a thing to each other for about 3 days. The shock was too great, too significant, too horrifying. Then we came together and cried our eyes out and prayed. *

When the Manchester Synagogue attack happened we texted each other as some of us were from Manchester. **

When Bondi happened, there was again a delay for about 12 or so hours then the messages went around about who knew whom, and the connections which alot of us had, including me who was originally from Australia. My father had a good friend who was murdered.

This time? Just a wry text of 'here we go again. is everyone feeling okay?'.

• when October 7 happened we had quite a bit of contact from other religious groups in our community. The one that meant hugely were our Catholic community who reached out with such warmth and grief and who made it clear they were here for us.

** when Manchester happened our local village police force contacted us and said they were ready to stand outside our homes - we only had to give the indication. Cannot tell you how much we appreciated that.

None of the above should have happened.

Very well said @DeepBlueDeer

It should not. 💐
I'm glad that you had support and people stood by you.

I don't think 'despicable' is a strong enough word.
This shit is all over FB. We don't need it here as well.

Same. I'm a Jewish woman in Wales. I can't believe where we're at. We have security all the time at Cardiff Synagogue and at Jewish schools. I attended a Jewish wedding last year with security present. Friends have stopped wearing kippah and making sure their Star of David necklace isn't visible. Next week I'm attending a Seder in a friend's house, just a few friends, and he's informed the police and they're going to be patrolling the area over Pesach.
My thanks to everyone here for their solidarity and kind words

@Spittykityy I am so sorry to hear this, and I hope you have a peaceful Seder with those you love. How awful that there needs to be a police presence. How has it come to this? High security and police protection for worship and weddings?
I have an elderly Jewish neighbour who is now too scared to go to the synagogue, which is truly shocking in the UK in 2026.

What is shocking is that these posters, that regularly post racist content, are not banned. I only assume it's because MNHQ likes them as it drives engagement, which is quite frankly a revolting process of thought.

There is one poster I have seen who tried to doxx a Jewish child's school, causing safeguarding concerns, and nothing was done.

Awful.

There are a number of regular posters who I recognise as having anti semitic tendencies (to put it mildly) and I too have often wondered why these people are not banned.

We should report them every time. I've seen people say leave the remarks visible so people can see how bad antisemitism is, but I think that time has passed. We all know it's around, we should be stamping it out.

I am not pushing it. I was proposing other possibilities. When a car ran into a crowded street in Liverpool, the kneejerk assumption was that it was an Islamist attack. It was not. I don't know why my comment has been deleted. Normally we an encouraged away from hypotheses assuming Muslim guilt. We don't know. That's all I was saying. Just suggesting other possible explanations .

I agree.

Though certain posters I know for a fact I have reported many times (and their comments deleted more often than not) yet they remain on MN.

It's not a good look for the site that people are allowed to repeatedly post antisemitic comments.