Police only seem to act after outcry on social media
Jewish Telegraph, November 2024
YOU can imagine the scene at Antisemites HQ as they plan their next moves.
“Let’s call Israel an apartheid state.”
“But it can’t be as it has two million Arabs citizens, who can serve in the government . . . and just look at its national football team.”
“Don’t worry, if we say it enough times, people will believe it.
“And, let’s say Israel is committing genocide and starving the people of Gaza.”
“But the evidence shows that both of these statements are untrue.”
“Don’t worry, the useful idiots will make sure it is believed. And while we are at it, let’s heckle Jews outside synagogues and in Jewish areas; maybe vandalise Jewish businesses.”
“But doesn’t that make us seem antisemitic?”
“Of course not. Everyone will see that we are on the right side of history.
“Now for our biggest truth bomb, Jesus and his mother Mary were both Palestinians.”
“Erm, I think you are pushing it a bit there. Nobody will fall for that.”
“You want to bet?”
And so it goes on. The haters come out with one lie after another . . . and their fools on the street fall for it all, hook, line and sinker.
It is reminiscent of an Alan Partridge episode where the radio presenter is losing an argument with a farmer.
And so he just blurts out: “You have big sheds, but nobody’s allowed in. And inside these big sheds are 20-foot-high chickens, because of all the chemicals you’ve put in them, and these chickens are scared! They don’t know why they’re so big.”
Scarily, if someone said this today, there would be plenty of people who believed it and would start a protest.
But while it is worrying being Jewish and finding city centres intimidating places at weekends when the ‘pro-Palestinians’ take to the streets, there is something even more concerning . . . the police.
Imagine if all this had been taking place before social media was a thing. Fortunately, people are posting footage online of what is really going on, and while the mainstream media chooses to ignore it, at least people are seeing it.
Take the protests last Friday in the heavily-Jewish area of Swiss Cottage in north London.
A female using a megaphone told the Israel haters: “These people are terminally deranged and the sickness is Zionism. And it’s incurable so they just need to be put down perhaps.”
Unless all the police officers present were deaf, they would have heard this, but they just let it happen and some were even filmed smirking.
It’s only after uproar on X/Twitter that the Metropolitan Police said they were investigating.
“We are reviewing the circumstances to understand what happened,” they tweeted.
What is there to review? It just proves that the police are happy to turn a blind eye to this hatred — including blatant death threats.
Yet, there are plenty of videos online of the police being abusive and heavy-handed with pro-Israel supporters, who are not threatening violence, but just holding up banners, proclaiming the truth: “Hamas are terrorists.”
It seems like police know that Jews won’t turn violent when some of their number are arrested . . . while the same cannot be said for the other side.
How are Jews meant to feel protected when the police laugh off such incidents, yet are happy to arrest a Jewish man for insulting another Jewish man in a private Facebook message or arrest a man for saying he didn’t want to see Palestinian flags in the UK?
Or when a police force says that Jews being sent swastikas on social media is not a hate crime?
It’s all well and good for London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to say they won’t tolerate antisemitism, yet they allow the police to do what they want and also allow the weekly hatefest on London’s streets.
And, unfortunately, the police’s blind eye has spread to city centres around the country.
