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Rising anti swmtism in the UK....do we really need to crack down I n the Iran regime Hamas supporting mobs?

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mids2019 · 20/04/2026 06:42

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxxjgdn94o

It is now being increasingly reported that there are multiple threats against Jews in this country as a result of wars in the middle east. How do we go about defusing tensions? Should the police take a more active role? Should we look at social media more closely for stirring up hate? Maybe we should be educating children more about anti semttism in schools as well as importantly saying the right of Israel to exist as a state. The tide needs to turn.

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Spat at, threatened and kidnapped: British Jews tell of rising antisemitism

British Jews have described to BBC Panorama how they are experiencing a rise in antisemitism.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxxjgdn94o

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Ihatetomatoes · Yesterday 19:22

BollyMolly · Yesterday 16:39

The absolute best thing anyone can do is just believe us when we speak. If we say ‘these hate marches are terrifying and bringing out the worst in people and now my daughter is afraid to go to school’, don’t tell me I’m overreacting or that the intention wasn’t for that to happen. I don’t care about intent, I care about impact. And the impact on my family in the last 2.5 years has been massive.

I think that people do believe you, but they believe in the Palestinian cause too.

What Israel is doing is so wrong and so horrific that it needs calling out regardless of whether it makes people here feel unsafe or not.

Your children’s right to feel safe is important, but it is not more important than Palestinian children’s right to be safe.

If the government of this country didn’t contribute to atrocity and oppression in Palestine then I would agree with you that protests and marches in this country shouldn’t happen if they were making British people feel scared. But as long as our own government refuses to call out war crimes and human rights abuses, unfortunately the protests are necessary.

But HOW on earth has that got ANYTHING to do with the rise in antisemitism in THE UK? It has NOTING TO DO WITH BRITISH JEWISH PEOPLE.

I'm shouting because you don't appear to hear. What's happening in the middle east, in Gaza has nothing to do with British Jews it's NOT their fault at all, therefore no excuse or whataboutery needed. Nothing to do with them, again, nothing to do with them.

When people scream 'Free Palestine' at Jewish people in the UK it doesn't help people in Gaza at all, it's pure hate. Marching past synagogues in the UK doesn't affect what happens in Gaza. It only harms people in the UK. Terror attacks on Jewish people or synagogues doesn't help anyone. It's all just hate, by thick racist people.

BollyMolly · Yesterday 22:01

Obviously, I agree that what’s happening in Palestine has nothing to do with British Jews. However, peaceful, inclusive marches against war crimes and human rights abuses becomes about British Jews when they centre themselves as a reason why the Palestinian cause should be silenced.

I acknowledge that there are a minority of outlying idiots who will use ‘Free Palestine’ to intimidate people because they are racist bullies, but they are not a reason for protest against the British government’s involvement in genocide and ethnic cleansing to be entirely shut down and condemned as antisemitic.

Who are you if you object to protest about killing innocent children?

PurpleThistle7 · Yesterday 23:23

BollyMolly · Yesterday 22:01

Obviously, I agree that what’s happening in Palestine has nothing to do with British Jews. However, peaceful, inclusive marches against war crimes and human rights abuses becomes about British Jews when they centre themselves as a reason why the Palestinian cause should be silenced.

I acknowledge that there are a minority of outlying idiots who will use ‘Free Palestine’ to intimidate people because they are racist bullies, but they are not a reason for protest against the British government’s involvement in genocide and ethnic cleansing to be entirely shut down and condemned as antisemitic.

Who are you if you object to protest about killing innocent children?

I absolutely believe in the right to protest and the right to have a say and the right to have an opinion. I do not believe in taking that right to the lengths it has done. The protests started as the massacre of the 7th October was still unfolding. The signs and chants to “globalise the intifada” and “death to the IDF” are chilling and the confusion, regularly, by marchers and supporters about the difference between Zionism, Judaism and Netanyahu supporters have created an atmosphere of fear and violence that is being seen every single day by my children and anyone else who cares to look.

My 9 year old son came home from school today and said the Palestinian children all hate him. An older child asked him if he was going to try to not be Jewish anymore because it’s the worst thing anyone can be. That doesn’t happen in Scotland, thousands of miles from the Middle East, in a vacuum.

So of course I’m not a monster and I hate death and violence - for anyone - and am certainly no Netanyahu supporter, but something has gone terribly wrong with how these protests and conversations are happening if my children are this scared to go to school. They have never been to Israel, they don’t talk about Israel, they are just openly and proudly Jewish and that’s all it takes.

Ihatetomatoes · Today 19:49

BollyMolly · Yesterday 22:01

Obviously, I agree that what’s happening in Palestine has nothing to do with British Jews. However, peaceful, inclusive marches against war crimes and human rights abuses becomes about British Jews when they centre themselves as a reason why the Palestinian cause should be silenced.

I acknowledge that there are a minority of outlying idiots who will use ‘Free Palestine’ to intimidate people because they are racist bullies, but they are not a reason for protest against the British government’s involvement in genocide and ethnic cleansing to be entirely shut down and condemned as antisemitic.

Who are you if you object to protest about killing innocent children?

"They centre themselves" maybe don't march past synagogues and Jewish areas shouting 'Free Palestine ' when they have NO CONTROL OR INFLUENCE over what happens in the middle east 🤔. Maybe standing protests where the aim is not to intimidate others might be better....

Do you actually think shouting 'Free Palestine ' or 'Globalise the intifada' at people actually helps the people of Gaza?

Those awful UK Jews 'centering themselves' by feeling unsafe in the face of intimidation, what are they thinking 🤔 😕 This is the UK, where they live, they should feel safe.

SharonEllis · Today 20:15

Ihatetomatoes · Today 19:49

"They centre themselves" maybe don't march past synagogues and Jewish areas shouting 'Free Palestine ' when they have NO CONTROL OR INFLUENCE over what happens in the middle east 🤔. Maybe standing protests where the aim is not to intimidate others might be better....

Do you actually think shouting 'Free Palestine ' or 'Globalise the intifada' at people actually helps the people of Gaza?

Those awful UK Jews 'centering themselves' by feeling unsafe in the face of intimidation, what are they thinking 🤔 😕 This is the UK, where they live, they should feel safe.

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👏 Couldn't believe what I was reading. Actually I can, sadly. The empathy gap for Jews is profoundly chilling.

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