The British government should issue its own warning to the Muslim community there: attacks on Jews will not be tolerated. From the TimesOnline, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
THE Jewish community in Britain is facing a wave of anti-Semitism as a result of the conflict in Lebanon, security experts said yesterday.The Community Security Trust (CST), which advises British Jews on safety issues, said that synagogues, schools and community centres should increase security as the risk of terrorist attacks and anti-Semitic incidents in Britain escalated in correlation with hostilities in the Middle East.
The warning came after a bomb scare at the Israeli Embassy forced police to cordon off a busy shopping area on Sunday afternoon. An area around Kensington Palace Gardens, West London, was closed and cars were searched before the all-clear was given.
The trust logged 60 antiSemitic incidents last month, compared with 31 for the same month last year. These included the daubing of racist slogans and references to Islam on windows at a Jewish doctor’s North London home, and the painting of the word “Hezbollah” on the pavement outside Garnethill Synagogue in Glasgow. Other incidents involved abusive phone messages and hate mail.
This is indeed cause for concern.
Melanie Phillips is as eloquent as always here.
And consensus elsewhere
Oh where do the islamoapologists start?
1) It's not anti-Jewish to criticise Israel....That's all this is about.
2) It's the "Far Right" that's a danger to Jews.
3) It's only a tiny minority who are quite rightly, exhasperated, at the sufferings of muslims around the world and the actions of the British government.
Easypeasy.
Sad Reality: The acceptance, comfort and comity that we have experienced in the west is at an end. The establishment of Muslim minorities everywhere throughout the Dar-ul-Harb that is the tolerant, self-effacing west signals the end of the Jewish experience as normal people which has existed, in the Anglosphere more than anywhere else. The century long Jewish renaissance in America is fizzling, and Jews are no longer safe. It will get worse as the Muslim presence swells.
Europe of course is no longer safe for the Jews, and most likely never will be again. In America there is still time. The violence that Islam compels its adherents to, and the mental illness is breeds, has settled amongst us. I hope that the presence of Muslims in the west will at least begin the process ot Islam's undoing or radical reformation, though I do not think the latter is possible, or the former likely.
I saw a program last night about anti-semitism in Europe, and one man said, "well you know, muslims get upset about what they see on TV about what Isreal does to Palestinians, so can you understand why they would want to beat up Jews?"
I thought, "well I get upset at what muslims do around the world, from 9/11 to the London bombings, the Madrid bombings, Beslan, Bali etc. I guess that gives me the right to beat up any muslims that I see, right?"
Even placid Switzerland is working itself into frenzy. On Thursday August 3rd, car drivers in Geneva were threatened by a man wielding a 20 inch machete knife. The 38 year old rowdy waved the blade into open car windows on rue Gourgas, aggressively questioning drivers about the Middle-East conflict.
Just three days earlier, a Turkish man hacked up two pedestrians with an axe on a shopping street in the vicinity of Basle.
Media reporting on these incidents was as usual very subdued.
I always thought that when confronted, the Swiss shot back.
Notice the lack of condemnation from Al Qaradawi bum pal Red Ken? Shows the complicity of the British state to tolerate anti Semitism, it is just as bad as participating in it, the government and the Mosques are all complicit.
And since this is happening in the UK, defending yourself will get you thrown in jail.
Coming to a neighbourhood near YOU real soon! The countries, like Australia, who were foolish enough to allow southern Lebanese entry as 'refugees' are paying the price. Sydney has had problems with Lebanese Muslim crime and violence for decades, since the idiot government of the 1980s allowed them to settle here.
The real problem with immigrants from the ME is the anti-Semitism they all appear to feel. The Howard government firmly supports Israel which will give the ingrate Muslims yet another excuse for 'feeling alienated' - and we all know what THAT means!
Sydney synagogue rocked by attack
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Jewish youth centre attacked
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A JEWISH youth centre in Sydney has been targeted in an attack community leaders say is clearly linked to the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
It is the second anti-Semitic attack in Sydney in four days.
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies chief executive Vic Alhadeff said today attackers had failed in their bid to set alight the Jewish youth movement centre, adjacent to the Mizrachi Synagogue on Old South Head Road at Bondi.
Parramatta Synagogue, in Sydney's west, was the target of an anti-Semitic attack on Sunday evening when projectiles were hurled at the building's roof and blocks of concrete were thrown at two cars, smashing windows.
Officers are searching for 10 men of Middle Eastern appearance [MOMEAS in AussieSpeak]seen laughing and running from the Mason Street synagogue after it was attacked about 9pm (AEST).
NSW Police have responded by stepping up patrols of Jewish and Islamic sites as the crisis in the Middle East deepens.'
It gets to be a small world...
I just mailed a packet of information to a classmate of mine today. We are to have a high school class reunion in a few months. It has been years since we corresponded. Probably 20 years... I searched on the internet and the Swiss White Pages and found her at the same old address. Got the phone number but the Vcard did not list any email address.
She still lives in Liestal, Switzerland. CH-4410. Just down the road a few klicks from Basel. And the attack by the Turk with an ax on two civilians in a shopping street in the vicinity of Basel.
Hugo Schmidt-Fischer, if you are still reading this site and thread, please advise me precisely if you can, where exactly this attack took place, ie What City?
SCV
The attack on Monday Juli 31, with the axe took place in Liestal, on Rathausstrasse. Swiss TV had an item on this in its evening news accessible on the Web, not mentioning the Turkish extraction of the perpetrator, but the camera was zooming in on the doors of the Coop Supermarket. That is exactly on Rathausstrasse 45, CH-4410 Liestal. It carries the same postal code as your old classmate, and so she must live next door. The TV's archives are only held 2 - 3 days, so you will not be able to see this news item by now anymore.
The man menacingly waving his machete knife into open car windows on August 3rd, and posing questions on the Middle East, questions which must have been hard to refuse to answer, did so on rue Gourgas in Geneva. Very little has become known of that event, aside from a terse press release of the cantonal police.
That same day, August 3rd, several thousand miles away, a Molotov cocktail was hurled at the Hebrew University of Baltimore City in the US.
One would think all this outrage emmanates from a common source, Islam.
Thanks, Hugo, for the reply.
She doesn't live on Rathausstrasse, but obviously nearby. I'll call up a map and see the distance between the two addresses. Maybe I'll ring her up just to check...
Thanks again...