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Tracking antisemitism 2

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EllaDisenchanted · 18/12/2025 17:27

continuing on from the last thread which morphed from a discussion about antisemitism to tracking it globally.

@comedycook @humdingerydoo@stomachamelon @25milesfromhome @sharonellis @beretinparis @diamond82 @christmasmantlestatue @quantumbutterfly @edithstourton @lucywestenra
@sewingaddict @ErroltheSwampDragon @knitnerd90

I’ve probably missed people out

to start off with something positive - this was a few yeshiva students response to antisemitism ❤️🕎

https://x.com/lily4liberty/status/2001122286204805189?s=46
“Three Jewish college students from NJ were dancing at Denver International Airport. They said they were motivated to do this after the mass shooting in Australia: “We will not be scared or give in to the darkness, we will only add more and more light.” Happy Hanukkah!”

they’re playing my favourite zusha chanuka song, and one of them looks like DHs nephew who lives in America! Had to do a double take and check it wasn’t him!😆

Lily Tang Williams (@Lily4Liberty) on X

Three Jewish college students from NJ were dancing at Denver International Airport. They said they were motivated to do this after the mass shooting in Australia: “We will not be scared or give in to the darkness, we will only add more and more light.”...

https://x.com/lily4liberty/status/2001122286204805189?s=46

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EllaDisenchanted · 15/03/2026 10:56

Synagogue attacks this week:
A total of eight incidents at synagogues across the globe were monitored by the Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) by CAM this week, including the bombingof a historic synagogue in Liège, Belgium, gunfire at two Toronto area synagogues, and the arrests of suspicious individuals near synagogues in Oslo and Trondheim in Norway.”
www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-889947

further antisemitic attacks included an attack on two people speaking Hebrew in San Jose : “Two Israeli Americans were hospitalized after they were attacked in San Jose, apparently after they were heard speaking Hebrew by three young men, who were heard saying, “Don’t mess with Iran,” and “fuck the Jews” during the assault.” (Times of Israel on x)

Mayor Mamdanis wife controversy:
“Duwaji liked more than 70 Instagram posts endorsing extreme anti-Israel positions in the immediate aftermath of October 7. One post framed the massacre as "resistance," showing images of Hamas fighters on a captured IDF vehicle with the words "Resisting apartheid since 1948." Another post she engaged with called The New York Times' investigation into Hamas sexual violence a fabrication — a "mass rape hoax." She also liked posts from organizations that led rallies in Times Square the day after the attack, events that celebrated the breach of Israel's border as an act of liberationhttps://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-889936

antisemitic slurs against Jewish school kids from JFS in a football match in London Police in the United Kingdom are investigating antisemitic abuse directed at Jewish teenagers during a school soccer tournament in Norwich on Thursday.
The students attend London’s Jewish Free School (JFS). They competed in an Under-15 national tournament at Thorpe St Andrew School. During the match, spectators reportedly shouted antisemitic slurs from the sidelines. Witnesses said members of the crowd yelled “Dirty Jews,” “Dirty Zionists,” and “Go back to the gas chambers.”
Some spectators also chanted “Jews” repeatedly during the game
https://combatantisemitism.org/cam-news/go-back-to-the-gas-chambers-uk-police-probe-antisemitic-abuse-of-jewish-students-at-school-soccer-match/

and final shout out to the guardian for a disgusting piece of writing. https://x.com/christianjbdev/status/2032877036352459117?s=46 Pic attached, which shows the quote from the guardian article

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Emilesgran · 15/03/2026 12:40

EllaDisenchanted · 15/03/2026 10:38

Hi 👋 welcome :) it’s not a hijack, don’t worry. I’ve not even posted about the various synagogue attacks and other antisemitic attacks last week 🤦‍♀️. will try update soon.

I can’t tell you anything about domestic violence links or how to search for it, sorry I have seen that his wife is reported to have shared concerns with the police when he contacted her in advance of the attack regarding the kids. I don’t know if that was concern about his mental health or concern about what he might do, but in itself indicates he was likely an unstable character.

The main info I have seen on the attacker is that he is reported to have had links to Hezbollah, and the siblings and relatives killed in the IDF strikes were Hezbollah members. This doesn’t seem to be fully verified at the moment.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/michigan-synagogue-attacker-was-us-lebanese-citizen-with-relatives-said-killed-in-idf-strike/amp/

I don’t think this was ‘an act of revenge’, as seems to be the way MSM are framing it; the timeline implies he quit his job before his relatives were killed.

I question this idea of an act of revenge in the first place. The temple holds a preschool for Jewish children. How is attempting to murder Jewish children ‘revenge’ for Israel attacks in Lebanon? The way this is debated and framed in public discourse in mainstream is a scandal imo and I think in itself is antisemitic.

Pogroms historically were usually framed as retaliation against Jews for various crimes (usually invented and used to whip up hate and violence). I think the current discourse of antisemitism being ‘understood’ by people as logical ‘because Israel’ falls into the same category. Kristallnacht for example was ‘revenge against Jews’ for the assassination of someone by a Jew.

Thanks for that, I just feel a bit like an interloper on a forum for Jewish MNers but actually while looking for that info on the forum I saw on thread called “small wins” iirc, someone saying she’d taken down her mezuzah after swastikas had been painted on the street outside their home - that just broke my heart so I felt I had to say something. I don’t know much about Judaism TBH - I was never particularly interested until Oct 7 so I only heard about mezuzahs recently.

Anyway, back to Ghazali: no the thing about his wife reporting his call seems to be being covered in the media as evidence of his sad mental state. He told her to look after the children, implying that he wouldn’t be around. It’s the most awful excuse - the Yazidis haven’t started murdering random Muslims around the world even if it turns out they weren’t Hezbollah (but I bet they were). But of course it’s antisemitic.

I used to think that Jewish people were over sensitive about certain comments (David Baddiel’s book for example) but how wrong I was. Unfortunately.

EdithStourton · 15/03/2026 13:53

Just when I think that the Guardian can't sink any lower... it explores new depths.

EllaDisenchanted · 15/03/2026 13:59

Emilesgran · 15/03/2026 12:40

Thanks for that, I just feel a bit like an interloper on a forum for Jewish MNers but actually while looking for that info on the forum I saw on thread called “small wins” iirc, someone saying she’d taken down her mezuzah after swastikas had been painted on the street outside their home - that just broke my heart so I felt I had to say something. I don’t know much about Judaism TBH - I was never particularly interested until Oct 7 so I only heard about mezuzahs recently.

Anyway, back to Ghazali: no the thing about his wife reporting his call seems to be being covered in the media as evidence of his sad mental state. He told her to look after the children, implying that he wouldn’t be around. It’s the most awful excuse - the Yazidis haven’t started murdering random Muslims around the world even if it turns out they weren’t Hezbollah (but I bet they were). But of course it’s antisemitic.

I used to think that Jewish people were over sensitive about certain comments (David Baddiel’s book for example) but how wrong I was. Unfortunately.

Not 200 years ago - 80 years ago, and 120 years ago, and 200 years ago etc etc...

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NotAtMyAge · 15/03/2026 14:04

EdithStourton · 15/03/2026 13:53

Just when I think that the Guardian can't sink any lower... it explores new depths.

Jonathan Liew is a disgrace. I can never forget his Independent article when he said that it would be perfectly OK, indeed admirable, if all the winners of women's sports were trans-identified men.

"But let’s follow this argument all the way through. Let’s say the floodgates do open. Let’s say transgender athletes pour into women’s sport, and let’s say, despite the flimsy and poorly-understood relationship between testosterone and elite performance, they dominate everything they touch. They sweep up Grand Slam tennis titles and cycling world championships. They monopolise the Olympics. They fill our football and cricket and netball teams. Why would that be bad? Really? Imagine the power of a trans child or teenager seeing a trans athlete on the top step of the Olympic podium. In a way, it would be inspiring."

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/athletics/caster-semenya-news-gender-martina-navratilova-trans-cas-jonathan-liew-column-a8792861.html

The prejudice of those who argue against trans, intersex & DSD athletes

This week, DSD athlete Caster Semenya has fought the decision to set a limit on allowable testosterone levels for athletes. And, for some, this is the final stroke of the Doomsday Clock, the opening of the floodgates

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/athletics/caster-semenya-news-gender-martina-navratilova-trans-cas-jonathan-liew-column-a8792861.html

SpuytenDuyvil · 15/03/2026 14:55

@EllaDisenchanted I am so happy to see you here. I have been thinking about you and everyone. Yesterday in shul we prayed for you all.

EdithStourton · 15/03/2026 20:55

EllaDisenchanted · 15/03/2026 13:59

Not 200 years ago - 80 years ago, and 120 years ago, and 200 years ago etc etc...

I had a related conversation with a Jewish friend of mine this past summer. He'd been worried the previous year by the way things were going, and I'd said, 'Huh, it should all calm down'.

So last year I said, 'Well, you were right and I was wrong - you've clearly got the antennae and I haven't...'

I'd thought I was pretty clued on, as my grandparents (not Jewish) had to run from fascists during WWII. But nope - completely clueless in comparison.

ChristmasMantleStatue · 16/03/2026 07:45

Agree. The mantra when I was growing up was 'You have to know when it is time to leave'. That was drummed into me.

When Corbyn was leader of the Labour party we kept saying this to each other 'Is it time to leave?'. My family are all in Australia and they were asking us to be vigilant. My father's family escaped the Pogroms in Ukraine in the 1919 (well, not all of them did) and via a circuitous route went to Australia / France / South Africa etc. My family in Australia now are so unsettled and scared by the anti semitism in Australia (and the diabolical track record of Albanese and Penny Wong the Foreign Minister who simply don't care), and friends of theirs are moving to israel because they think Australia is potentially too dangerous.

PurpleThistle7 · 16/03/2026 08:22

@ChristmasMantleStatue - I was raised with tha mantra too. My great grandparents fled Russia after a wave of pogroms. Half went to America, half to Europe. I come from
the American side as we all know what happened to the European.

and this is where I freeze - sure it might be time to run, but there’s no obvious solution for where to go. Everything feels like a terrible idea.

ChristmasMantleStatue · 16/03/2026 09:30

I agree about the freezing. Where do you go? There are no obvious options.

Ironically, I was never a Zionist. I thought a Jewish homeland was not a necessity in 'modern times'. All of this has made me realise just how necessary it truly is.

*'Modern times' - well look how it worked out for the assimilated German Jews- many of whom had fought for Germany in WW1. Who thought they too were living in modern times.

SpuytenDuyvil · 16/03/2026 18:59

@PurpleThistle7 @ChristmasMantleStatue My father always said that exactly how American we feel is how German they felt. My great-uncles fought and one died for Germany in the Great War. The truth of the betrayal was so shocking and unbelievable to them that they barely made it out. I think that about all of us--when is it time to go?

Emilesgran · 16/03/2026 20:00

EdithStourton · 15/03/2026 20:55

I had a related conversation with a Jewish friend of mine this past summer. He'd been worried the previous year by the way things were going, and I'd said, 'Huh, it should all calm down'.

So last year I said, 'Well, you were right and I was wrong - you've clearly got the antennae and I haven't...'

I'd thought I was pretty clued on, as my grandparents (not Jewish) had to run from fascists during WWII. But nope - completely clueless in comparison.

Yeah I’m a bit embarrassed that I was so confident that people were just being over sensitive and that no western Europeans were actually antisemitic any more. I mean, I know there’s antisemitism in Eastern Europe - I saw swastikas graffitied in Poland 15 years ago - and I’d heard blatantly antisemitic remarks from Muslim friends which shocked me. But I always thought that any antisemitism in the west was coming from those sources, people in the U.K. or US etc but from those cultures.

But it’s much more widespread than that now. I have members of my own family who are convinced that there’s been a genocide in Gaza and have compared Israelis to Nazis. When I take someone up on it for the first time they’re shocked. They think everyone “knows” that. It’s like it’s become a fact. But they think I’m the extremist.

(Not all, TBF, but at best it’s about 1/4 vs 3/4 who disagree. Or like one of my sisters who admits that my arguments are solid but she just basically doesn’t discuss it. Like some stupid political difference of opinion that you don’t want people to fall out over, instead of a really important issue in today’s society.)

BonneMamanAbricot · 18/03/2026 12:03

SpuytenDuyvil · 16/03/2026 18:59

@PurpleThistle7 @ChristmasMantleStatue My father always said that exactly how American we feel is how German they felt. My great-uncles fought and one died for Germany in the Great War. The truth of the betrayal was so shocking and unbelievable to them that they barely made it out. I think that about all of us--when is it time to go?

I think about this too. One set of great grandparents escaped from Germany. My great grandmother said that all of their friends and neighbours and wider family had nowhere to go so hoped it would all die down. But one night their policeman friend knocked on the door and told them it was time to go. They packed their bags and left. They had some connection in the UK so were able to stay, taught themselves English and started a small business. No one else was able to leave and no one survived.

BonneMamanAbricot · 18/03/2026 12:07

Emilesgran · 16/03/2026 20:00

Yeah I’m a bit embarrassed that I was so confident that people were just being over sensitive and that no western Europeans were actually antisemitic any more. I mean, I know there’s antisemitism in Eastern Europe - I saw swastikas graffitied in Poland 15 years ago - and I’d heard blatantly antisemitic remarks from Muslim friends which shocked me. But I always thought that any antisemitism in the west was coming from those sources, people in the U.K. or US etc but from those cultures.

But it’s much more widespread than that now. I have members of my own family who are convinced that there’s been a genocide in Gaza and have compared Israelis to Nazis. When I take someone up on it for the first time they’re shocked. They think everyone “knows” that. It’s like it’s become a fact. But they think I’m the extremist.

(Not all, TBF, but at best it’s about 1/4 vs 3/4 who disagree. Or like one of my sisters who admits that my arguments are solid but she just basically doesn’t discuss it. Like some stupid political difference of opinion that you don’t want people to fall out over, instead of a really important issue in today’s society.)

When I go to DC's schools, lots of parents wear Free Palestine logos and symbols. One parent identifies as Palestinian and wears shirts with Israel covered by the Palestinian flag, for example. The 'movement' has just become so accepted that it would be shocking to go against it, but when you give it 5 seconds of critical thinking...how can people accept that? How can they proudly support it? Do they just unblinkingly support the latest cause no matter what it actually is?

ErroltheSwampDragon · 18/03/2026 14:10

A woman I work with came in sporting a Palestinian badge the other day. We've had a few conversations previously and its clear she gets all her information from social media. Last month, I mentioned the ceasefire and she didn't know (or apparently care) about it.

I've got to say its just made me think she's a bit thick. And icky that she (wealthy, English) has claimed someone else's identity for her own with no genuine care about those same people.

She's very junior but not directly working with me so its easy for me to stop helping etc but I do wonder if she realises (or has bothered to think about) how clients etc would take this.

EdithStourton · 18/03/2026 17:10

@BonneMamanAbricot
but when you give it 5 seconds of critical thinking...how can people accept that? How can they proudly support it? Do they just unblinkingly support the latest cause no matter what it actually is?
A lot of people just don't think critically. Some of them can't, some of them don't know how, some of them have decided (often unconsciously, I suspect) that they will adopt whatever views their political tribe espouses (they've essentially outsourced their thinking) and some of them know that doing so would upset the apple cart.

A SIL of mine once said to me about some trendy Left-wing belief, 'I used to know all the arguments for that but I don't any more, but yeah, it's right...' The impression I got was that she'd swallowed the arguments that someone better-informed (and probably cleverer, and certainly more persuasive) than her had fed her to the point that she could regurgitate them, but she had no real knowledge or understanding of the issues.

I see it sometimes with my own adult DC, who I thought we'd brought up to think critically... One of them said recently that she had no idea why Israel was bombing Iran, what had Iran got to do with Israel... She got 20-minutes on Iranian history, the ayatollahs, their support of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, and the relationship of those 3 charming sets of people with Israel, bound up with a potted version of the history of the Jews in the MENA, including the Farhud.

She didn't know any of it. Because you have to go looking for it.

BrinkWomanship · 19/03/2026 06:53

The media’s coverage since 7 Oct is criminal. It set the ball rolling in this false, misleading direction.

Emilesgran · 21/03/2026 13:38

EdithStourton · 18/03/2026 17:10

@BonneMamanAbricot
but when you give it 5 seconds of critical thinking...how can people accept that? How can they proudly support it? Do they just unblinkingly support the latest cause no matter what it actually is?
A lot of people just don't think critically. Some of them can't, some of them don't know how, some of them have decided (often unconsciously, I suspect) that they will adopt whatever views their political tribe espouses (they've essentially outsourced their thinking) and some of them know that doing so would upset the apple cart.

A SIL of mine once said to me about some trendy Left-wing belief, 'I used to know all the arguments for that but I don't any more, but yeah, it's right...' The impression I got was that she'd swallowed the arguments that someone better-informed (and probably cleverer, and certainly more persuasive) than her had fed her to the point that she could regurgitate them, but she had no real knowledge or understanding of the issues.

I see it sometimes with my own adult DC, who I thought we'd brought up to think critically... One of them said recently that she had no idea why Israel was bombing Iran, what had Iran got to do with Israel... She got 20-minutes on Iranian history, the ayatollahs, their support of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, and the relationship of those 3 charming sets of people with Israel, bound up with a potted version of the history of the Jews in the MENA, including the Farhud.

She didn't know any of it. Because you have to go looking for it.

"some of them have decided (often unconsciously, I suspect) that they will adopt whatever views their political tribe espouses (they've essentially outsourced their thinking)"

Someone I know well, whom I know to be an intelligent person, probably more so than me in many ways, said to me recently when I made a comment about the sort of "forced teaming" you describe above, that this is "a completely normal way of understanding the world because nobody has the time to do detailed research and analysis on every issue" and that the alternative would be to stop working for 6 months to draft a bespoke position on (long but non exhaustive list of controversial issues).

And when I replied that someone could have a position that they don't know enough about many of those things to have a fixed opinion on them, he said "I honestly never thought of that":

Is that a consequence of social media, where it's essential to HAVE an opinion on everything? Or were some people always like that?

EdithStourton · 21/03/2026 18:42

@Emilesgran, I think some people were always like that. But I think it's got worse, perhaps partly because SM makes the 'approved line' so much more obvious.

I sometimes say, 'I don't know enough about that to have an opinion'. I try to make sure that I read widely around topics that really concern me, and can get very tetchy with people who base strong views on only a passing acquaintance with the most basic facts, never mind the details. My BIL, for example, who is incredibly ill-informed about various of topics on which he has very strong and very fixed views.

GentleSheep · 23/03/2026 05:47

This is awful, in today's news - 4 ambulances blown up in Golder's Green. The ambulances belong to the Jewish Community Ambulance service.

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

At least the Police are treating it as an anti-semitic hate crime.

EllaDisenchanted · 23/03/2026 05:49

4 Hatzola ambulances set on fire in London. This is a car crash in slow motion, rapidly gathering speed. I can't stand seeing this :(

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/official-decries-chilling-targeting-of-ambulances-at-london-synagogue-beyond-time-for-authorities-to-wake-up/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyj1p49gdpo
'suspected' antisemitic hate crime BBC? Come on, what other reason in this climate for targeting Jewish private ambulances.
These are funded by the community and take so much to fundraise for them. And they help anyone in need, contrary to the vitriol that's spewed about them being exclusive.

Footage shows the fire at Golders Green after ambulances were set on fire

Four ambulances set on fire in London in suspected antisemitic hate crime

Police said they were looking for three suspects after the London Fire Brigade were called to Golders Green at around 01:40 GMT.

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

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GentleSheep · 23/03/2026 05:51

EllaDisenchanted · 23/03/2026 05:49

4 Hatzola ambulances set on fire in London. This is a car crash in slow motion, rapidly gathering speed. I can't stand seeing this :(

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/official-decries-chilling-targeting-of-ambulances-at-london-synagogue-beyond-time-for-authorities-to-wake-up/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyj1p49gdpo
'suspected' antisemitic hate crime BBC? Come on, what other reason in this climate for targeting Jewish private ambulances.
These are funded by the community and take so much to fundraise for them. And they help anyone in need, contrary to the vitriol that's spewed about them being exclusive.

We cross-posted! Yes truly awful, glad no-one was injured but still, I am so sorry the Jewish community are experiencing this.

EllaDisenchanted · 23/03/2026 05:59

I know there was no loss of life, which is the main thing, but this has made me so so sad. How much hate do you have to have to target ambulances? The people who will suffer will be those who are vulnerable, sick, ill, elderly, anyone in an emergency who won't be able to access the ambulance service because of this. Hatzola volunteers generously give their time for free, and do not limit their volunteer service to the Jewish community.

https://hatzolanw.org/about

Hatzola NW

Hatzola North West - Emergency Ambulance Service

https://hatzolanw.org/about

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EllaDisenchanted · 23/03/2026 06:13

In Monsey NY, a 4 year old was pushed to the ground by a USPS worker, caught on camera. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/usps-worker-accused-of-shoving-4-year-old/6479649/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/22/labour-council-exhibition-showing-jews-eating-babies/

"An “anti-Semitic” art exhibition with drawings allegedly showing Jewish people eating babies was seemingly promoted by a Labour council.
The Drawings Against Genocide exhibition at an independent gallery in Margate, Kent, features hundreds of crudely-drawn pictures that critics claim contain anti-Semitic tropes.
It is the work of Matthew Collings, 70, formerly one of the country’s leading art critics, who said the art was “about raising consciousness about hell” and that “Israel is the pure encapsulation of it” through its actions in Gaza.
Jewish campaign groups and politicians said the drawings were “grotesque” and “not just sickening but dangerous”.
Kent Police said it was making inquiries into the exhibition.
‘Pictures dripping with anti-Semitic tropes’
Labour-led Thanet district council has been criticised for supporting the “openly anti-Semitic exhibition” after its tourism website, Visit Thanet, appeared to previously promote it, providing information on dates and venue on a since-deleted web page.
Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said: “This extremist Labour council is supporting an openly anti-Semitic exhibition. These pictures are dripping with sickening anti-Semitic tropes, and all those involved in this should hang their heads in shame.”
One of the drawings on display at the Joseph Wales Studios depicts two auctioneers at Sotheby’s – which is owned by Patrick Drahi, a French-Israeli businessman – eating babies, with blood dripping from their sharpened teeth.
Alex Hearn, from Labour Against Antisemitism, who posted the drawing on his X account, said the exhibition portrayed Jewish people “as blood-soaked, baby-eating demons”.
Mr Collings denied that it showed Jewish people, saying “nothing in the drawing says ‘Jews’ or claims Jews eat babies”. He said it “makes a comment that the owner of Sotheby’s is a Zionist” and “the message is that Zionism is a brutal ideology”.

Matthew Collings, the artist, says message of some of the artwork is that ‘Zionism is a brutal ideology’
Other artwork depicts a smiling Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier standing over a pool of blood and a human skull, and a figure holding a Star of David flag dripping with blood.
Another showed Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, alongside bank notes and an Israeli flag, with speech bubbles coming out of her mouth saying “I am a Zionist” and “I am paid by Israel”.
Allegations that Jewish people secretly control mass media and governments are a common anti-Semitic trope. A spokesman for the Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “These images are grotesque. This isn’t art but incitement, drawing on classic tropes.”
Addressing the apparent promotion by the council, the spokesman added: “It’s a disgrace that the local authority is promoting this exhibition of hate – it should apologise.”
Debbie Fox, the interim chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council, said: “This is an outrageous exhibition, which appears to use Israel as cover for displaying imagery associated with ancient anti-Semitic tropes.
“This sort of imagery has been used to dehumanise Jews for centuries, with deadly consequences. In the context of rising global anti-Semitism and attacks against Jewish communities the exhibition is not just sickening but dangerous.”
‘Shocked and threatened’
Zoe Strimpel, a columnist for The Sunday Telegraph, visited the exhibition on Saturday. She claimed she had raised concerns about the artwork “as a Jewish person”, and had been shouted at by Mr Collings.
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“As soon as I started to say I was shocked and threatened by what I was seeing because it was Nazi imagery, the artist started yelling at me that I didn’t mean anything I was saying,” she said in a post on X.
Ms Strimpel added that he claimed that she was “defending a genocide”.
Giving his own account, Mr Collings dismissed the incident as “Zionist nonsense”.
He said in a Facebook post that a “well dressed middle class educated person” came to his show and “shouted at me that as a Jew she felt she was in an unsafe place and she was going to complain to the police”.
“Someone else in the room said ‘I’m a Jew and I don’t feel unsafe’. I would say my feeling personally is that this Zionist nonsense of making all these false allegations so anti-Semitism can be conflated with anti-Zionism has run out of effectiveness.”
‘Target is always Zionism’
Mr Collings presented a dozen art documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 between 1995 and 2014, and won a Bafta in 2000 for the Channel 4 series This is Modern Art.
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Months before the 2019 general election, he was nominated as a Labour parliamentary candidate for the South West Norfolk seat held by Liz Truss, the former prime minister.
Just a day after his selection, however, he was suspended by the party and dropped as its candidate after it emerged that he had dismissed allegations of anti-Semitism in Labour as a “witch hunt” and described a former chief rabbi as a “notorious hate-filled racist” in social media posts.
At the time, Mr Collings described the claims of anti-Semitism as “nonsense”. He also claimed he had been fired from his role as art critic at the Evening Standard over the posts.
His latest exhibition opened on Saturday, and runs until March 29. In response to the claims of anti-Semitism, he said: “All my drawings are direct and clear... the target is always Zionism. Zionism is not ‘Jews’. It is a political ideology.
“When people are horrified by the genocide being committed against the Palestinians they do not condemn Jews. Many of those horrified are in fact Jewish people. The condemnation is against the politics of that genocide. The name of that politics is Zionism.”
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A Kent Police spokesman said the force had received a report of a concern raised regarding the subject matter of the exhibition on Saturday afternoon, and that inquiries into the report are ongoing.
Joseph Wales Studios was contacted for comment. Thanet district council did not reply to a request for comment."

Alex Hearn on X: "So
@kent_police
informed me this is legitimate “criticism of Israel”, based on their views as non-Jews and what the artist told them. They deny it is “insulting or abusive to Jewish people”. They say there is “no information to suggest hostility” towards Jews. But it features a Star of David (not a flag). It targets Jews both in the text and as individuals, with one even accused of eating babies alive. The imagery comes from a rich heritage of anti-Jewish hate. But suddenly Macpherson principles don’t apply to Jews again (remember the force that told me swastika weren’t offensive to Jews?). Now Kent Police have joined them in deciding Jews can’t recognise blatant anti-Jewish hate.
@CST_UK" https://x.com/hearnimator/status/2035802712575443195?s=20

In the screenshot I added, with a picture from the exhibition, it shows a star of David, NOT the Israeli flag, dripping with blood. Couldn't be more blatant.

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EllaDisenchanted · 23/03/2026 06:24

Hen Mazzig;
https://x.com/HenMazzig/status/2035854091096621204/photo/1
"In New Zealand, antisemitic postcards have been sent to Jewish homes. The latest shows 15 pigs, meant to portray the 15 victims of the Bondi Beach massacre. People who were murdered in cold blood, now being dehumanized again. The fact someone felt comfortable enough to create this, and send it, tells you everything about how far antisemitism has gone."

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