Why are Jewish people facing persecution in the UK?

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I don’t understand why Jewish people are being persecuted in this country. What is wrong with people?

https://x.com/2jewsonthenews/status/2050152100303184129?s=12

Another poster on another thread asked me what more could Starmer do …
I think this article is pretty powerful
https://spectator.com/article/why-wont-starmer-take-the-safety-of-britains-jews-seriously/

particularly the following paragraph

What could they do? Arrest hate preachers who call for Jews to be killed. Investigate religious sermons that spread Jew-hatred or call for non-adherents to be killed. Overhaul systemic anti-Jewish bias in the national broadcaster. Establish proper inquiries to identify and root out extremist funding in universities and wider society. Counter every attempt to intimidate or dominate Jews, and others, by sectarian forces. Take every threat seriously. Ban Iranian regime-linked groups from operating in the UK. Investigate charities that raise money and then funnel it to terrorist or terrorist-sympathising causes.

Yes to all the above.

I'd love to see human development and falibility added to the curriculum. I think young people need to be taught why humans are the way we are and why our faults are as they are and how we can be better. CRT for the whole of humanity. With a big term topic on both anti black racism and slavery and anti Jew racism and the Holocaust and other genocides.

I think people can't see their prejudice. And in the new internet world we live in we need to understand why prejudices arise.

I really worry for my kids- the world they are growing up into.

It is insane and disgusting that they allow an ex Hamas chief to organise hate marches in London, along with terrorist-affiliated organisations like Friends of Al Aqsa (7 Oct is known as the Al Aqsa Flood) that are banned in the Middle East but tolerated here.

That is the crazy thing that some countries in the ME won’t tolerate terrorist behaviour at all yet in the liberal West, we somehow seem to feel we should. Hope that attitude is slowly changing.

Terrorist behaviour? Most of the countries in the ME don't even allow freedom of speech about normal things. Eg in Dubai they were rounding up people who posted videos of missiles and drones hitting the UAE recently. There is NO criticism of leaders allowed. Some of these malcontents need to go back to their roots.

Jews persecute Christians in Israel? How exactly?

No, that is not criminalising peaceful protest. You can peacefully protest against Israel's war without supporting a group that carries out violent attacks on companies it claims supply Israel.

Young ultra-Orthodox and nationalist extremists in Israel are persecuting Christians through harassment, vandalism and physical assaults, mainly in Jerusalem's Old City. Churches have been vandalised, clergy have been spat on and had stones thrown at them, and monks, priests and nuns have been physically attacked. When perpetrators are arrested, the authorities often claim they are mentally ill and absolve them of all responsibility.

In 2018, the leaders of several churches in Jerusalem denounced what they described as a "systematic campaign against the churches and the Christian community in the Holy Land" by the authorities in Jerusalem.

Having said that, around 80% of Christians in Israel are of Arab origin, so at least some of the persecution is because they are Arabs, not because they are Christian.

And yet funnily 2.1 million Arabs are happily living and working in Israel with equal opportunities making up roughly 21% of the country’s population. That doesn’t sound too much like persecution. I wonder how many Jews are living in the surrounding Arab countries?

Yes, there are 2.1 million Arabs in Israel. However, describing them as "happily living and working in Israel with equal opportunities" is stretching it a bit. Civil rights organisations say they face systemic discrimination and institutional exclusion, and are marginalised economically. There are disparities in municipal funding, infrastructure and housing allocation. There is unequal access to state resources, education and health care. Community leaders have actively protested about failures by law enforcement to provide adequate security and protect the Arab population.

Israel is in many ways better than the countries that surround it, and some of the criticism is clearly antisemitic. But we shouldn't ignore the problems that exist.

There are language and cultural differences for some Arabs that haven’t integrated properly, as is the case in other countries. There are shortages of healthcare infrastructure in smaller towns and villages. But having lived there for a number of years with close connections to the Arab community I know (with exceptions of course) that generally the Arab population co-exist happily with Israelis. They choose to stay.