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King_David

(14,851 posts)
Sun Jul 27, 2014, 06:11 PM Jul 2014

Anti-Semitic Attacks Scar British Cities

Britain’s Jews are suffering an anti-semitic backlash against Israel’s military action in Gaza with attacks, bomb threats, bricks thrown at a synagogue and “Hitler was right” banners.
About 100 hate incidents have been recorded by police and community groups this month — more than double the number that monitors would usually expect.
Many are said to have been carried out by young Muslim men and, in some cases, the attackers have invoked the Holocaust.
The most serious incidents being investigated include:
•A rabbi who was attacked by four youths outside a Jewish school in Gateshead
•Bricks being thrown at a synagogue in Belfast, smashing windows on two consecutive nights
•A group of Asian men who drove through a Jewish area of Greater Manchester, shouting “Heil Hitler” and hurling missiles at pedestrians
•A man using Twitter to call for a Jewish neighbourhood in London to be bombed so “Jews feel the pain” of the Palestinians.

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/250430/anti-semitic-attacks-scar-british-cities.html

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Anti-Semitic Attacks Scar British Cities (Original Post) King_David Jul 2014 OP
You're flooding DU, David. R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 #1
I'm glad you said that. bravenak Jul 2014 #2
Yes. HooptieWagon Jul 2014 #3
There have been so many attacks on Jews at these rallies, King_David Jul 2014 #4
No David. bravenak Jul 2014 #5
I never care for the Palistinians huh ? King_David Jul 2014 #6
Slanderous? bravenak Jul 2014 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author King_David Jul 2014 #8
Keep posting King David leftynyc Jul 2014 #10
And there are also those who take some of these things out of context. R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 #11
I'm guessing you're more leftynyc Jul 2014 #9
Stating the obvious is not being upset. It is statig the obvious. R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 #12
There's someone in this thread posting about Israel King_David Jul 2014 #14
To all DUers reading the above. The King keeps on playing fast and loose with the facts. R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 #15
To all those reading above leftynyc Jul 2014 #17
You just described the king perfectly. R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 #18
You need to look up the word irony leftynyc Jul 2014 #20
Tell us about all those murdered Palestinians R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 #22
Yawn leftynyc Jul 2014 #23
I guess that the murder of innocent children R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 #25
You are truly pathetic leftynyc Jul 2014 #26
"Anyone who wont jump through your hoops is a spin doctor..." R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 #30
Poor, poor you leftynyc Jul 2014 #32
I don't care. R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 #34
I wasn't polled leftynyc Jul 2014 #36
What a wonderful bucket of hasbara... R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 #38
It's an inconvenient truth . King_David Jul 2014 #19
Obviously for some leftynyc Jul 2014 #21
What's apparently inconvenient for you R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 #24
Are you genetically unable leftynyc Jul 2014 #28
I believe that the poster of the OP us flooding. R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 #31
Uh - no they don't leftynyc Jul 2014 #33
It's easy to connect the dots to what the king is doing... R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 #35
The dots that are easy to connect leftynyc Jul 2014 #37
The stories are king's way of distracting from Operation IDF overkill...IMHO. R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 #39
European Jews face rising tide of anti-Semitism in Gaza operation's wake King_David Jul 2014 #16
‘Tomorrow there’s no school in Gaza, they don’t have any children left’ — Israeli chant R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 #13
Its only going to get worse Mosby Jul 2014 #27
Just look at this thread leftynyc Jul 2014 #29
You don't have to look any further than this thread King_David Jul 2014 #40
 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
1. You're flooding DU, David.
Sun Jul 27, 2014, 06:17 PM
Jul 2014

It doesn't change the fact that Israel IS responsible for the deaths of a lot of civilians...children.

Diverting attention is a well known game of the guilt ridden and those who wish to play the victim.

Please just stop. Nobody buys this nonsense.
 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
3. Yes.
Sun Jul 27, 2014, 09:15 PM
Jul 2014

Last edited Sun Jul 27, 2014, 10:28 PM - Edit history (1)

Spamming the board as a diversionary tactic isn't likely to persuede anybody.

King_David

(14,851 posts)
4. There have been so many attacks on Jews at these rallies,
Sun Jul 27, 2014, 09:40 PM
Jul 2014

Is better to ignore them?



Not likely.

Even if it's an inconvenient truth.

 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
5. No David.
Sun Jul 27, 2014, 09:52 PM
Jul 2014

It's just that you never care about the attacks on Palestinians. You minimize their deaths at times to suit your own needs. So pardon me if I find your sudden anti violence stand somewhat disingenuous.

King_David

(14,851 posts)
6. I never care for the Palistinians huh ?
Sun Jul 27, 2014, 10:01 PM
Jul 2014

What an awful slanderous thing to say.
I never see you post in these violent anti Jewish threads , imagine if I were to say you and a few other people never care for Jews ?

 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
7. Slanderous?
Sun Jul 27, 2014, 10:27 PM
Jul 2014

Lord have mercy! Go ahead and say it. I'm quite able to handle it without getting all butthurt. Or calling anyone slanderous or playing the victim. Besides, I've already said that we, the US, care about ISRAEL more and hold her to a standard that she gives herself. I am an atheist. I have no favorite group of people who identify with the same theocracy. Being a part of an oppressed people in the US makes me sympathize more with oppressed people across the world, whether they like my kind or not.

Response to bravenak (Reply #7)

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
10. Keep posting King David
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 08:32 AM
Jul 2014

I'm sure it annoys those who want to focus on only one part of this but tough, these stories are becoming a daily thing and it's important they get posted.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
9. I'm guessing you're more
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 08:30 AM
Jul 2014

upset at having to see these stories than thinking about WHY there are so many of them. And really? Calling stories about the anti-semitism covering Europe at the moment is nonsense? Well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised at that.

King_David

(14,851 posts)
14. There's someone in this thread posting about Israel
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 07:12 PM
Jul 2014

When Jews were attacked in the uk .

The reason so many people think attacks on Jews is "ok" in the UK or USA or France is because of what Israel does , is because they got involved in this conflict because of Jews .

These people doing the attacks in the main are not Muslim or Palestinian they are Irish or Australian or Danish or from the USA and involved in this because of opposition to Jews --- they then attack the Jews .

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
15. To all DUers reading the above. The King keeps on playing fast and loose with the facts.
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 09:31 PM
Jul 2014

Ask him if there have been attacks on other places of worship in Ireland around he same time.

Ask him if anybody has been apprehended in any of these crimes.

Ask him if a motive has been ascertained by somebody besides himself.


Once you read through the king's posts one might start to believe that he is bigoted towards the French and Irish...or maybe just Europeans in general.
 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
17. To all those reading above
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 05:10 AM
Jul 2014

Attacks on Jews is apparently something that SOME DUers just find too distracting from what it is they want to discuss. So distracting that they simply cannot scroll by the thread, they must park themselves in it and complain bitterly that everyone isn't obsessing about the same things they want to obsess about. So distracting that they can't find one second to decry the fact that people are suffering beatings and other disgusting behavior for something they have nothing to do with. Let's all put our lives on hold and help them put their hands over their ears so they don't have to hear anything they find too disturbing and too distracting.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
20. You need to look up the word irony
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 11:14 AM
Jul 2014

because you obviously have no idea what it means. You waltz into a thread that has nothing to do with Israel and dump all over it because it's too inconvenient to point out that anti semitism exists. That is entirely your problem. If you don't like the topic of a post, try scrolling past it next time instead of trying to make it all about what YOU want to talk about. There ARE liberals who care that Jews all over the world are getting attacked and people like you just try and minimize it because of an unrelated topic. Unless, of course, you also believe that all Jews everywhere are responsible for Israeli actions. You don't believe anything that stupid, do you?

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
22. Tell us about all those murdered Palestinians
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 12:23 PM
Jul 2014

at the hand of the IDF and Bibi baby killer.

A few broken windows is nothing compared to the deaths if the inmocent.

I hope bringing that up wasn't an inconvenience to you and your pity party.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
23. Yawn
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 12:25 PM
Jul 2014

And yet again you can't stop yourself from lurching away from the topic of this OP. It's entirely your problem and I'm not about to jump through your hoops. You're simply not that important.

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
25. I guess that the murder of innocent children
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 12:32 PM
Jul 2014

really bores you.

It's sad since some spin doctors and their cheerleaders are playing the victim while
the IDF murders children.

And its back ro the irony if the hand wringers.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
26. You are truly pathetic
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 01:01 PM
Jul 2014

Anyone who wont jump through your hoops is a spin doctor and a cheerleader. The only one going for perpetual victimhood is the one who can't scroll by any OP about Jews and not make it about Israel. Truly, truly pathetic.

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
30. "Anyone who wont jump through your hoops is a spin doctor..."
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 03:40 PM
Jul 2014

Well, no. Actually anybody that acts like a spin doctor and posts "poor old me" posts over and over to distract from hundreds of murders, many whom are children, is what I would classify as one.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
32. Poor, poor you
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 03:59 PM
Jul 2014

Here's something else you can get your knickers in a knot about:

http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Majority-of-American-public-blames-Hamas-for-current-conflict-369305

According to a recent poll by PewResearch, 40% of Americans blame Hamas for the current crisis in Gaza, while only 19% believe that Israel is responsible.

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
34. I don't care.
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 04:28 PM
Jul 2014

Israel is to blame for the civilians it has murdered.

But it was sho darn nice of ya to try and blame somebody else at 40%.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
36. I wasn't polled
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 04:30 PM
Jul 2014

but I would have answered the same as the 40%. Of course you don't care - that's been my point all day long.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
21. Obviously for some
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 11:15 AM
Jul 2014

who can't simply scroll past a post they obviously have no interest in. No, they have to make it all about what THEY want to talk about. Like freeking children.

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
24. What's apparently inconvenient for you
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 12:26 PM
Jul 2014

is to acknowledge that Netanyahu and the IDF are murderers of innocent children and civilians.

But hey, let's post about a few broken windows to keep the attention elsewhere.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
28. Are you genetically unable
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 01:05 PM
Jul 2014

to discuss the topic of Jews without bringing Israel into it? Apparently not.

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
31. I believe that the poster of the OP us flooding.
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 03:46 PM
Jul 2014

I believe he is doing it to distract from what Israel is doing WRT heinous acts of premeditated murder of civilians and choldren in Gaza. It is my opinion that this is being done as a distraction to divert attention from the war crimes that Israel is responsible for at present.

You are free to make any observations about my posts you like, but a casual look at the king's posts backs up my claim that the posts are meant to distract from Israeli atrocities.

Deal with it.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
33. Uh - no they don't
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 04:01 PM
Jul 2014

What they do prove is that Jew haters will take any opportunity they can to attack Jews and some people seem perfectly okay with that as long as they can tie it in any way to Israel. You know, like you continually do.

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
35. It's easy to connect the dots to what the king is doing...
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 04:29 PM
Jul 2014

well, to those who are not willfully blind.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
37. The dots that are easy to connect
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 04:32 PM
Jul 2014

are the ones that show you continually trying to distract from very real anti semitism. You want to dismiss it, downplay it and distract from it. The stories aren't being made up - the problem is real and you don't give a shit. That's what's obvious here. And now I'm done with you.

King_David

(14,851 posts)
16. European Jews face rising tide of anti-Semitism in Gaza operation's wake
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 09:42 PM
Jul 2014

Two leading German newspapers led their Friday editions with calls for an end to hatred against Jews.

-------

bricks thrown through the windows of a Belfast synagogue on two successive nights.

http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/1.607433

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
13. ‘Tomorrow there’s no school in Gaza, they don’t have any children left’ — Israeli chant
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 06:47 PM
Jul 2014
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/tomorrow-children-israeli.html


Electronic Intifada 27 July by Rania Khalek — All eyes are on Gaza, where the death toll from Israel’s merciless bombing campaign has topped 1,000. But back in Jerusalem, where sixteen-year-old Muhammad Abu Khudair was burned alive by Jewish vigilantes in a “revenge killing” incited by Israeli politicians early this month, right-wing lynch mobs continue to roam the streets in search of Arabs to attack. Their most recent victims are twenty-year-old Palestinians Amir Shwiki and Samer Mahfouz from the Beit Hannina neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem. The pair were severely beaten into unconsciousness on Friday night by Israeli youths armed with iron bars and baseball bats. …

Last week in Haifa, the Arab deputy mayor and his son were brutally beaten by a mob of Jewish supremacists chanting “death to Arabs” and “death to leftists” in response to a rally against the Gaza onslaught. Police did nothing to stop the assault. Similar fascist demonstrators have surfaced in supposedly liberal Tel Aviv as well, verbally and physically attacking Palestinians and leftists protesting the war on Gaza. Israeli blogger Elizabeth Tsurkov, who has been regularly attending and live-tweeting the racist attacks against anti-war demonstrators in recent weeks, heard a new racist chant mocking the more than two hundred children slaughtered by Israel’s merciless bombing campaign in Gaza: “Tomorrow there’s no school in Gaza, they don’t have any children left.”

Mosby

(16,320 posts)
27. Its only going to get worse
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 01:03 PM
Jul 2014

According to the far left, anti-semitism and hatred of Israel is the fault of the Jews.

We are asking for it I guess.


 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
29. Just look at this thread
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 01:07 PM
Jul 2014

There are those who simply cannot discuss the subject of Jews without bringing Israel into it and anybody who wants to discuss ANYTHING but Israel are nothing but cheerleaders. They don't even realize how pathetic they are.

King_David

(14,851 posts)
40. You don't have to look any further than this thread
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 05:53 PM
Jul 2014

I don't believe it's a left or right issue though when your so obsessed with Jews and minimizing or ignoring or playing down AntiSemitism it's not really because you support Palestinian rights .

Look at Greta Berlin of the Free Gaza movement as a perfect example, her hate of Jews as illustrated on her Facebook page made her a huge supporter of " Palestinian rights" and tarnished the reputations of genuine Palestinian rights activists that they disowned her.

A huge amount of the support from non Palestinians is this phenomenon.

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