Absolutely zero talk from corporate about the terrorist attacks against Jewish people

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We have an awareness calendar at work. Mundane stuff but also Eid/Easter. I live in Manchester so it would be very hard not to know it's Easter.

Also no other religions are on the awareness calendar.

However zero talk about the terrorist attacks and no saying "if you need support talk to manager, hr or employee assistance" etc.

Zero.

It's also social housing.

Aibu that we are all ignoring the terrorism against Jews

Yes, I don’t understand this I’m furious that as a British person I’m now labelled antisemitic - it’s crazy.
And I can’t understand why no one speaks out against lumping the behaviour of the IDF and Netanyahu with ordinary Jewish people in London who are getting on with their lives.

Jewish spokespersons don’t spell it out, Starmer doesn’t spell it out,Head of the Met doesn’t spell it out.

Who is labelling you antisemitic?

It seems pretty common for workplaces in public/charity sector to post messages of solidarity and support on internal and external channels when any kind of hate crime arises, or around cultural or religious dates of importance. IME less so for private sector but varies. However also IME this is pretty performative. For example, messages of solidarity around anti-Semitic attacks in a company with no Jewish staff, or an edict that would all support Ramadan by not eating or drinking in meetings, even though we had no Muslim staff. Quite mad imo.

If your employer is genuinely able to offer support to colleagues affected by antisemitism (including a terror attack in another city) then they should. But maybe they don’t mention it because they’re not equipped to. Are there many staff affected by these issues in your workplace?

Maybe it would be better to not have an awareness calendar at all then everyone could celebrate or not whatever things they want to?

But surely this question is about representation in the workplace rather than news, politics or the wider world?

My previous role, where I attempted to set up such a calendar, was in an organisation that was very concerned with a particular form of diversity. But it rapidly became clear that several prominent individuals were only really interested in representation when it concerned representation of their own particular group. On one occasion when I attempted to do something that represented another group (it was actually a religious festival) it was met with cries of ‘not inclusive’ i.e. ‘It doesn’t represent me!’

I have nearly concluded that it is better for organisations to steer clear of any faith-based messaging.

Individuals who are distressed or immediately affected (close relatives actually caught up in an event) should of course be given full support by their manager or HR.

But general messaging probably not, unless an organisation is large enough to devote the time and funds to doing it properly, not just being swayed by the most dominant voice.

A Sikh woman was recently the victim of a hideous racially motivated and Islamophobic sexual attack including rape by a far-right white thug who used Islamophobic sexual slurs during the attack because he thought that she was Muslim.

This has hardly had any coverage of this nationally although it has been mentioned in local news outlets. There has certainly not been any national condemnation and outcry by leading politicians.

I work in a 24hr a day /365 days a year profession, so no major religious holiday is protected.
But i agree that any '3 line whip' courses and meetings should be kept well away from any major religious holiday, so that annual leave can be taken by the people who need it in those days.
Beyond that though, I'd prefer religion to be kept well away from the workplace.

So you think that the killing of babies, children, doctors, paramedics and journalists by the IDF in Gaza, the Lebanon and the West Bank are justified because they all 'Fucked About and Found Out'?

Not at all. I can see that anti semitism was involved in this attack. That much is obvious. My point is that antisemitism is not the only significant factor here. The other person who was attacked deserves as much sympathy and recognition as the other two victims. He does not deserve to be erased in the quest to centre antisemitism as the only important issue here.

There's many more religions missing.

I can find dozens of reports on that terrible attack and rightly so. It’s received national coverage not just local.

As @HoldingTheDoor says, this has received a lot of national coverage, and rightly so. Have you not seen any national coverage on it?

This was absolutely horrific. I read about it in the news. The level of hatred & division growing across our society is frightening.

Do you think it's right that hamas enters a country and kills children, rapes women, kills women, kills families etc.

This is not a competition.
“ Do you think it’s right” is a pointless endless cycle.
Do YOU think it’s right that people are forcibly being removed from their homes and lands so settlers can move in?
What are you actually trying to achieve with this post? You seem to have an agenda,

You either think killing children, raping and killing women and killing families is wrong, or you don’t. Taking the view that “they did it first” shows you don’t really care about the safety and security of women, you only care about the safety and security if some women.

Do you not think it’s possible to care about the lives of both Israeli and Palestinian people, and Jewish people too? There are many Israelis who care about the lives of Palestinians, and vice versa, and rightly so. And many Jewish people around the world are disgusted at Netanyahu’s government policies.

No. You missed the fact that OP said that he workplace did acknowledge the Manchester attacks. What she's currently posting about (as far as I can tell) is a lack of email about the stabbings in Golders Green.

I am guessing that some people don’t know that North Manchester/ South Bury has the largest UK Jewish population outside of Barnet, Gt London. Further context to OPs post is, in the public sector or companies contracted to parts of the public sector, there is a lot of acknowledging issues that affect certain communities as some of us are working directly with people from affected communities , in addition to staff members all potentially being affected. For example, foreign wars that affect local people personally are acknowledged and support offered. So I can get what the OP is saying. My ( greater Manchester public sector) employer has emailed staff offering support and acknowledged the wider effects of anti Semitic attacks generally so what the OP has suggested her employer should do isn’t as unconventional as some posters are suggesting.